Sean Johnson Andrews (http://mason.gmu.edu/~sandrew3) is the GTA for English Matters and a student in the Cultural Studies Program at George Mason University.

Reneé Barger is a dancer and choreographer who recently opened her own dance company in Washington, DC.

Lorraine Brown is a professor in the English Department of George Mason University. Her scholarship and teaching areas have centered on drama: American drama from 1935 to 1955; Post-Colonial drama by women in Australia, Britain, Canada, US., and Scotland, and in sophomore courses contemporary drama and poetry. In 1987 several years of intensive and arduous work culminated in GMU (through her efforts) acquiring on permanent loan the early archival records of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA). By design these records were meant to complement /contrast with the Federal Theatre Project archival records then on loan to GMU from the Library of Congress. The ANTA records like the FTP records were unpacked, sorted, and catalogued with her help and under her supervision. As a result of concentrated work by Special Collections and Archives and CGSA and with input from students in classes, a significant proportion of ANTA records have been subsequently scanned by SC&A staff, and will be on-line.

Paras Kaul (http://www.brainwavechick.com) is a neural artist/researcher, multimedia composer, web coordinator, and educator at George Mason University. With the use of a brain wave interface to the computer, she uses neural data to compose music on an electronic keyboard.

Mel Nichols is a computer artist and programming genius. Though employed in only one college of GMU (Arts and Sciences), she is often called upon by numerous others as few people have her expertise in this alchemy. English Matters is lucky to have her support in all of its endeavors.


Angela Weaver is the Fine and Performing Arts Reference/Liaison Librarian for the University Libraries at George Mason University. She received her B.A. in 1990, from Duke University, her M.F.A. in 1995 from the University of California, San Diego; and her M.L.S. in 1997 from Rutgers University. She is also a playwright with interests in new media.

Margaret R. Yocom Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, is a folklorist specializing in gender studies, family folklore, oral narrative, and material culture. She has taught courses in freshman composition, sophomore literature, popular culture, introduction to the study of culture, and numerous folklore courses, including folklore and literature, traditional art, traditional narrative, folklore and gender, and ethnography. Professor Yocom has conducted fieldwork in her home Pennsylvania German culture as well as with the Inuit of northwestern Alaska and several Northern Virginia communities. Her major fieldsite is a North Appalachian mountain logging community in Maine. She has published articles with accompanying photographs on ethnographic fieldwork, regional study, ethnopoetics, family folklore, gender, and material culture. Her most recent work includes " Awful Real': Dolls and Development in Rangeley, Maine" (1993) and "The Yellow Ribboning of the USA: Contested Meanings in the Construction of a Political Symbol" (1996). She is the assistant editor of Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit: King Island Tales (1988); and in 1994, she edited, produced, and wrote most of the text of Logging in the Maine Woods: The Paintings of Alden Grant. She is writing a book on the traditional art of a Maine logging family, entitled Generations in Wood. Visit her home page.

Special thanks to the following organizations for their generous support:

Center for History and New Media
George Mason University Writing Center
The College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University