Affiliate Faculty

Lisa Gring-Pemble, an associate professor at George Mason University, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College. She received her MA and PhD in Communication (Rhetoric) from the University of Maryland.

Hawley is a visual culture and gender studies researcher in the discipline of cultural studies. He is currently working on his dissertation examining mobile app developers' influence of contemporary digital sexual cultures.

Stephen completed a BA with a self-designed, interdisciplinary major in Comparative Literature at Sewanee: The University of the South. He taught middle and high school literature in Georgia before pursuing an MA in English at Georgetown University. Stephen has also taught freshman-level rhetoric and composition courses at Northern Virginia Community College and Howard University. Stephen is now a doctoral student in Cultural Studies at George Mason University.

An Instructional Designer & Technologist with the Costello College of Business, Dr. Howe has been engaged as a teacher and scholar in digital humanities, cultural studies, and curriculum design for almost 20 years.

Dr. Seth Andrew Hudson is an Assistant Professor of Game Writing in George Mason University’s Computer Game Design Program, situated in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Read more...

Huerta is an award-winning educator and public historian whose research and teaching focus on the history of slavery and enslaved people, American culture, and the role of the past in understanding the present.

Professor Jones received her B.A. in Philosophy and German from St. John's College, Oxford University, and her MA and PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick. Her teaching and research interests include key thinkers and themes in continental and feminist philosophy (such as Kant, Nietzsche, Lyotard, and Irigaray; self and body, the sublime, sexual difference).

Dr. Todd Kashdan is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, researching topics such as well-being, psychological flexibility, curiosity, courage, and resilience for over 20 years. He received the Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year Award from George Mason University and Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions from the American Psychological Association.

Professor Kinnaman received his B.A from Carleton College and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His graduate education also included one year each at the universities of Bonn and Konstanz in Germany, the latter as a Fulbright Fellow. His research interests include early modern philosophy, especially Kant and British Empiricism, and issues related to normativity. 

Maoria Kirker is the Lead for the University Libraries’ Teaching and Learning Team and an adjunct faculty member in the Honors College.