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Jessica M Ledford
Jessica Ledford is a Teaching Assistant and fourth year PhD student. She holds a B.S. in Communication Studies from the University of Montevallo and a M.S. in Communication Studies from Texas Christian University. This will be her sixth year of teaching public speaking courses and loves to share her ...
Tim Gibson
Tim Gibson is an Associate Professor of Communication and Faculty Affiliate in the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University. Tim Gibson's research interests include critical media studies, the political economy of communication, and urban studies. He has published articles at the int...
Early Modern
False Splendor As the most powerful monarch of Europe with great military ambitions for France, the “Sun King” Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) did not lack for enemies. His detractors in Britain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic – some of them French Huguenots who had fled the Catholic ...
Antiquity
Head in the Clouds With its clever comments on current politics and societal trends, as well as its delight in putting caricatures of celebrities onstage, Athenian Old Comedy can be regarded as The Simpsons of its day. In one of the few extant plays, Aristophanes’s The Clouds (first performed ...
Research Team
CHARM Lab Director Sojung Claire Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at George Mason University. At Mason, she directs the Communication, Health, and Relational Media (CHARM) Lab, where she conducts research on effective message design and evaluation with eye ...
Middle Ages
Dracula, Prince of Horror In the autumn days of the Middle Ages, disconcerting tales of horror began to spread through Europe about Vlad Dracula (“Little Dragon”), Prince of Wallachia (part of current-day Romania). As many pamphlets and handwritings attest, this man was so bloodthirsty that he sub...
Modern
King Pearhead La Caricature was a satirical journal in nineteenth-century France. Set up by the artist Charles Philipon, it provided biting comments on the worlds of arts and politics. First and foremost among its victims was King Louis Philippe, invariably portrayed with a ludicrous pear-shape...
