ENGH 370-001: Introduction to Documentary
Past ClassSpring 2024 - Lisa M. Rabin
Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
Documenting Community Gardens in DC National Parks A Field School for Cultural Documentation Summer Session A May 13-June 17, 2024 Course Content This intensive course will offer hands-on ethnographic training for beginners in the documentation of local cultural resources, the preservation of...
Professional Organizations and Networks The American Folklore Society (AFS): The American Folklore Society, founded in 1888, is the professional association for folklorists. The Society produces publications, sponsors meetings, and resources to support their members’ work “to study, understand, ...
Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and course registration is about to open! We hope that Mason students will enjoy these exciting and engaging folklore courses that we are offering this summer and fall. Check them out below! SUMMER COURSES Deadline to apply is April 15, 2023. FOLK 690: F...
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYMA IN ENGLISH WITH A CONCENTRATION IN FOLKLORE STUDIES DEGREECAPSTONE: THESIS OR PROJECT GUIDELINESUpdated 09/21/2022 General Information Every MA in English with a concentration in Folklore Studies degree culminates in either a thesis or a project based on original fieldw...
Students in Prof. Lisa Gilman’s Spring 2021 Folklore and Ethnographic Research Methods class partnered with Calvert County, Maryland to produce short documentary-style videos and podcasts on the theme of Agriculture: Past and Present in Calvert County to be preserved in a permanent county archive. M....
This is an undergraduate course which introduces key concepts in the field of television studies, and analytical approaches to television as an art form. The class will examine how gender, sexuality, race, class, nationalism, cultural memory, and geopolitical conflict shapes television from around wo...