Congratulations! Chelsea's article "The Big Heroine Genre: Motherhood and the Maternal Body in Postsocialist Chinese Television," which is the second chapter in her dissertation, was recently published in Medical Humanities, an international journal from BMJ and IME that publishes studies on the hist...
Aparna Shastri is a doctoral student of Cultural Studies at George Mason University. She completed her undergraduate degree in Electronic Media from Devi Ahilya University’s Educational Multimedia Research Center, in Indore, India. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Media fro...
Chelsea Wenzhu Xu is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies. She received her Bachelor of Arts from China and her Masters from the University of Rochester. She is interested in visual culture, feminist theory, neoliberalism in China. She is currently teaching Global Affairs at George Mason Universi...
Ashley Richardson is a Cultural Studies doctoral student. Holding a BA and MA in American Studies, Ashley's research interests include contemporary film and television, digital social media, and the American entertainment industry.
Hatim El-Hibri is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on global and transnational media studies, visual culture studies, Lebanon and the Middle East, urban studies, television studies, and media theory and history. His first book, Visions of Bei...
Janine R. Wedel writes about governing, corruption, foreign aid, and influence elites through the lens of a social anthropologist. A university professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, Wedel is a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics dominate...
Melissa Beard received a BA in journalism from Michigan State University and an MA in Film and Media Studies from Wayne State University. She is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at George Mason University and currently serves as an Intercultural Specialist for Native American and Indigenous Students...
Benjamin Gatling is a folklorist, Associate Professor in the English Department, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program (MAIS). He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from The Ohio State University and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...
David started the PhD program in Cultural Studies at George Mason University in 2014. Prior to his PhD studies, David worked for the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, volunteered with Project Hope in the West Bank, worked on a traveling circus ship in Eastern Europe, and taught in South Kore...
Megan Fariello is a PhD student in the Cultural Studies program at George Mason University. She received her BA in American Culture and Film from Bryn Mawr College and completed the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. Additionally, Megan has spent time working at ...
