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Janalyn Miklas, PhD candidate in linguistics, recently won Best Student Poster Award in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America.

This award recognizes a member of the English department staff for exceptional performance in their position while honoring the 25+ years of dedication Barb has put into the department.

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our English Department’s annual Honors Awards! These awards recognize the hard work and dedication of our undergraduate and graduate English students in a variety of concentrations.

Please join us in congratulating Nilima Mow on her recent election as the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA)!

Welcome, new and returning MA students! This course booklet is a crucial tool in planning your 2025-2026 classes. Inside, you will find course descriptions for 500- and 600- level Fall MA courses.

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 Linguistics Program was well represented at the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawaii, where faculty and doctoral students presented their research and contributed to scholarly discussions on language documentation and revitalization.