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The Mary Roper Award honors a classified staff member who has shown outstanding service in support of the core goals of the college – improving the quality of the liberal arts experience for all students, increasing the capacity for noteworthy and innovative scholarship and creating and strengthening external relationships.

This course booklet is a crucial tool in planning your Spring 2026 classes. Inside, you will find descriptions for course offerings in all English/Creative Writing graduate programs.

Dr. Matt Malzkuhn is an alum of the Cultural Studies Program at George Mason University, and his dissertation research on deaf home video filmmaking has turned into a book that has been picked up by Oxford University Press. Dr. Malzkuhn’s book, co-authored with Dr. Ted Supalla, Home Movies Hardly Silent: Unlocking Our Deaf Folklife Films represents a much needed documentation on the folklore and folklife of the deaf community. Dr. Malzkuhn was gracious enough to take the time to answer some questions about his upcoming book and how his experiences at George Mason ultimately led him to publish a book on Deaf Folklore. 

This past month has been a whirlwind of awards and scholarships for George Mason students. We are excited to announce the winners and congratulate the Folklore Program’s students who have received these honors.  

This award recognizes a member of the English department staff for exceptional performance in their position while honoring the 25+ years of dedication Barb has put into the department.

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our English Department’s annual Honors Awards! These awards recognize the hard work and dedication of our undergraduate and graduate English students in a variety of concentrations.

Mason MFA alum Chrissy Widmayer is the director of Community Powered, a program through the Wisconsin Humanities that helps participating communities to “experience new ways to unearth and tell stories of their communities while taking concrete steps toward making their hometowns better places to live.”

Lijun Zhang, an Assistant Professor of Folklore, discusses her scholarship and her new book, Living in Heritage: Tulou as Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist Destination in Contemporary China.