College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Join President Cabrera, Provost Wu, and Mason's senior administration in welcoming our incoming freshmen and transfer students as they begin their academic careers at Mason! All faculty and staff are invited to participate.
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College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Fall for the Book festival features over 150 authors at events centering around Mason's Fairfax Campus and taking place throughout Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.
Read More »David Shields is the author of Reality Hunger, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, Black Planet, and Other People: Takes and Mistakes. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and Believer. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
Read More »Ellen Bryant Voigt’s most recent poetry collections include Headwaters (2013), Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006, and Shadow of Heaven (2002). Her collection Kyrie (1995) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. She has also written a collection of essays, The Flexible Lyric (1999), and with Gregory Orr co-edited Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World (1996), a selection of essays on writing. She served as poet laureate of Vermont for four years.
Read More »Karan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi, India. His first novel, Family Planning (2008), was a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and his second novel, The Association of Small Bombs (2016), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Awards and was named one of the “10 Best Books of 2016” by the New York Times. Karan’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker online, The Believer, and NPR’s All Things Considered, among others.
Read More »Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This (2017). She is the managing editor of Sarabande Books and the film & video editor of TriQuarterly magazine. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. There will be a reception immediately following the reading in the JC West Lounge.
Read More »Myung Mi Kim’s poetry collections include Under Flag (1991), winner of the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Award of Merit; The Bounty (1996); DURA (1999); Commons (2002); River Antes (2006); and Penury (2009). She has taught at San Francisco State University and in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo, where she is the James H. McNulty Chair of English. There will be a reception at 7:00, before the reading, in the JC West Lounge.
Read More »Hannah Tinti’s short story collection Animal Crackers was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her first novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and winner of the The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her newest novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, was published in March 2017. She is the co-founder of the magazine One Story and for 14 years was Editor in Chief. In 2014 One Story won the AWP Prize for Best Small Press. There will be a reception preceding the reading at 7:00pm at the same venue.
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