From ancient times to the present day, people around the globe have raised fundamental questions through philosophy, economics, religion, and other disciplines. At George Mason, our faculty challenges students to explore the human experience across an exceptionally broad range of subjects.
It continues to be my privilege to serve as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and to represent outstanding faculty like Michael Malouf.
Dr. Malouf (Department of English) recently published Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics, a book that documents shared Irish and Caribbean poetic and political traditions arising from a common history under the British Empire and common points of migration to New York and London.
In this publication, Malouf demonstrates the important, and perhaps surprising, role of Irish nationalism—expressed in the works of Eamon de Valera, George Bernard Shaw, and James Joyce—in the political and aesthetic self-fashioning of three influential Caribbean figures: Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and Derek Walcott. The book provides an innovative historical and literary methodology for reading cross-cultural relations between two postcolonial cultures.
Professor Malouf’s current project is a study of the relationship between literary modernism and the emergence of globalized English—diverse dialects and literary traditions—in the twentieth century.
Mason faculty are leaders in their fields, recognized worldwide for their contributions to their disciplines. As teachers they challenge students to explore the deepest questions that shape their lives and our times.
Yours in Patriot Pride,
Jack Censer
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences