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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 year, we will feature a workshop with Disability Services about supporting neurodivergent students and sessions with librarian David Lemmons, Kristen Wright, Director of CECiL, and Tawnya Azar as we look ahead to the new curriculum guidelines.

Check out the Literature, Linguistics, and Screen Cultures courses in the pages of this booklet to see why English is the place for Mason Core!

The George Mason University Alpha Omega Xi Chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta National English Honor Society is open for applications! This honor society is open to undergraduate and graduate students.

Featuring a workshop with Mason’s own Rachel Yoho, Inclusive Excellence Specialist in the Stearns Center, about facilitating difficult classroom conversations.

Click here to learn about upper-division (300- and 400-level) English and Creative Writing classes for fall.

Elizabeth Paul (English) received Mason’s esteemed 2024 Teaching Excellence Award with special recognition for her inclusive teaching. In this article, she shares what drew her to teaching, how she creates an inclusive learning space, what to do when a classroom is not as energized, and what to do about how AI could motivate an instructor.

English faculty Dr. Albert J. DeFazio III, winner of the 2024 Online Teaching Excellence award, explains his inspiration for teaching, his plans to innovate and evolve as an educator at Mason, and his advice to other faculty thinking of teaching online