David is an assistant professor in the School of Integrative Studies and teaches courses for Women and Gender Studies, the Composition program, and the Honors College. Most of their courses focus on gender and sexuality in popular culture, friendship studies, rhetoric, and LGBTQ+ studies. They also s...
Rachel Lewis earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University and is an Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program at George Mason University. She is also the graduate director for the graduate certificate and MAIS concentration in Women and Gender Studies. Prior to joining George Mason, she w...
Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and B...
Professor Landsberg is a scholar in the field of memory studies. Her book, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Columbia UP, 2004) considers the way in which individuals are increasingly able to take on memories of events they did not live through...
Before coming to George Mason, Dr. Christensen directed a number of research grants and study abroad programs and taught at Tulane University, Berkeley, and Cornell College. She has published on Georgian film in Nimrod, Wide Angle, Slavic Review, Kartuli filmi, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, and...
On Wednesday, 5 March 2014, Laverne Cox spoke to a packed HUB Ballroom, to ask and answer the question, “Ain’t I a Woman?” Before her presentation, a group of students, professors, and community members gathered for a panel discussion on the Netflix series in which Cox stars, Orange is the New Black,...
Our events this semester included terrific film screenings, compelling panel discussions, and lively question and answer sessions with visiting filmmakers. We worked with many departments and programs, student organizations and individuals who helped to make these programs possible. We thank everyone...
Tommy Britt, Associate Professor, Film & Video Studies Published "No, You Can't: Passive Protagonists in The Blind Side, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave." Movies in the Age of Obama: The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema. Editor David Garrett Izzo (Rowman & Littlefield Publishe...
GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series Fall 2016 GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series: Christine Vachon A conversation about Vachon's career, the evolution of Queer Cinema, Killer Films, and future directions in film and other forms of storytelling, with Film and Video Studies Director Giovanna CheslerWednesda...
