In this seminar, we will study the range of ways that the witch has functioned in American literature and culture from the end of the Civil War to the present day. Often, though not always, the witch is an unmarried woman who lives on the margins of society, a figure through whom powerful ideas about...
The Folklore and Mythology concentration offers students the opportunity to study oral literature and traditional artifacts in their historical, cultural and performance contexts. Study in folklore addresses secular tales, songs, proverbs, jokes and material culture items as they are performed within...
In 2014, Eric Gary Anderson won a University Teaching Excellence Award with special acknowledgment of his contributions to Mason Core. He has published more than thirty essays in edited volumes and journals, including "Big Indigeneity" (in PMLA), "Native American Horror, Fantasy, and Speculative Fict...
Associate Professor of French and Global Affairs. Regional interests: West Africa, Central Africa. Jonathon Repinecz specializes in francophone literatures of West and Central Africa. While he has particular expertise in Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he regularly teaches texts and ...
Digital Storytelling (DTS) is a interdisciplinary field that utilizes traditional narrative storytelling with photographs, video, animation, sound, music, text, and a narrative voice to produce multimedia narratives. Transmedia storytelling is the practice of designing, sharing, and participating in ...
