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Randy Bass
Vice Provost for Education
Executive Director, CNDLS
Director, Visible Knowledge Project
Professor of English

• Learning
• Pedagogy & Design
• Impact of Digital Technologies on Education

Caetlin Benson-Allott
Associate Professor
Editor, Cinema Journal

• US Film History

• Film Theory

• Video and Digital Media Cultures

• New Media Studies

• Feminist and Queer Theory

• Materialism and Object Studies

• Horror Media

Ashley Cohen
Assistant Professor

• 18th-Century British and Transatlantic Literature

• British Imperial History

• Postcolonial and Transnational Studies

Michael Collins
Teaching Professor

• Shakespeare and Anglo-Welsh Poetry of the 20th-Century

• Shakespeare

• Modern British Drama

• Medieval/Renaissance Drama

Maureen Corrigan
The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism

• The work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Contemporary Literature

• The Literature of New York City

• Public Intellectuals in America

• American Detective Fiction

• Women’s Autobiography

• 19th Century British Poetry and Prose

Margaret Debelius
Teaching Professor
Director of Faculty Initiatives, CNDLS

• Writing Studies

• Faculty Development

• Graduate Education

• Victorian Literature

Barbara Feinman Todd
Professor of the Practice
Director, Journalism Program

• Investigative reporting

• Global Press Freedom

• Voice

• Memoir

Jennifer Natalya Fink
Associate Professor
Director, English Honors & Awards

• Creative Writing
• Performance Studies
• Queer Theory

Carolyn Forché
University Professor

• Poetry Writing

• Poetry of Witness

• 20th/21st-Century Poetry in English and in Translation

• Documentary Poetics

• Literature and Human Rights

• Short-Form Prose

• Lannan Seminar

Aminatta Forna, OBE
Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair Visiting Professor

• Creative Writing, Fiction

• Creative Writing, Non-Fiction

• Witness Literature

• Transnational Literature

Pamela Fox
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

• American and British Working-Class Literature and Culture

• Country Music

• Feminist Theory

• Literature by Women

• Transracial and Transnational Adoption

• Motherhood Memoirs and Literature

Professor

• Creative Writing

• Poetry Writing

• Modern & Contemporary Poems

• The Lyric

• “Investigative” Poems

• Composition

John Glavin
Professor
Director, Georgetown Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Research

• Writing for the Screen

• Nineteenth-Century Fiction

• Adaptation

Assistant Professor

• Victorian Literature

• Literary Theory

• Cultures of Contemporary Globalization

• The Novel

• Ecology

John C. Hirsh
Professor

• Medieval literature, especially Chaucer

• Religious and Secular Lyrics, and Medieval Spirituality, especially Mysticism and Late Medieval Devotion

• 19th-Century American Literature

• Urban Literacy

Brian Hochman
Assistant Professor

• American Studies

• 19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture

• Film and Media Studies

M. Lindasy Kaplan
Associate Professor

• Shakespeare

• Early Modern English drama

• Religion

• Race

• Gender

• Bible as Literature

Sherry Lee Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiatives

• Teaching and learning in the humanities

• Working-class studies

• American literature

David Lipscomb
Director, Writing Center
Assistant Teaching Professor

• Writing Studies

• Professional Writing

• Writing Center Studies and Administration

Dana Luciano
Associate Professor

• 19th century US Literature and Culture

• Queer theory

• Film

• Photography and Media Studies

• Environmental Humanities

Eddie Maloney
Executive Director, CNDLS
Professor of the Practice

• 20th Century Modern and Postmodern Fiction

• Narrative Theory

• Critical Theory

• Digital Humanities

• Education Research

Mark McMorris
Professor

• Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry & Poetics

• Avant-Garde and Experimental Poetry & Poetics

• Poetry Writing

• Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Sarah McNamer
Associate Professor

• Medieval Literature and Culture (English, Italian, French)

• Middle English Literature

• The History of Emotion

• Global Medieval Literatures

Lori Merish
Associate Professor

• Working Class Studies

• Feminist Theory

Angelyn Mitchell
Associate Professor
Director, Minority Mentoring Program

• African American Literary & Cultural Studies

• African American Studies

• American Literary and Cultural Studies

• Morrison Studies

• Critical Race Studies

• African American Intellectual History

• Black Popular Culture

• Southern Studies

• American Studies

• Feminist Theory

• Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies

• Black Women Writers

• Whiteness Studies

• Ethnic Studies

Patrick R. O’Malley
Associate Professor

• 19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture

• Gender and Sexuality Studies

• Religion and Literature

Lena Cowen Orlin
Professor

• Shakespeare

• Renaissance Drama

Ricardo Ortíz
Associate Professor
Chair, English Department

• US Latin@ Literature and Culture

• Critical Theory

• American Studies

• Cultural Studies

• Gender and Sexuality Studies

Cóilín Parsons
Associate Professor

• Irish Literature

• Postcolonial Literature

• Modernism

Matthew P. Pavesich
Associate Teaching Professor

• Writing
• Rhetoric
• Composition Pedagogy

Seth Perlow
Assistant Teaching Professor

• 20th-Century and Contemporary U.S. Literature
• Poetry and Poetics
• Comparative Media Studies
• Postmodern Fiction
• Critical Theory

John C. Pfordresher
Professor

• 19th-Century British literature
• Catholic Studies: the Catholic Imagination

Amanda Phillips
Assistant Professor

• Media Studies
• Digital Humanities
• Feminist Theory
• Critical Race Theory
• Queer Theory

Samantha N. Pinto
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

• African-American, African, Caribbean, and African Diaspora Literature and Culture

• Postcolonial Studies

• Feminist Theory

• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Ethnic Studies

• Cultural Studies

• American Studies

• Poetry

• Performance Studies

Libbie S. Rifkin
Teaching Professor

• Modern and Contemporary American Poetry including Classes in Modernism
• African American and Women’s Poetry
• Disability Studies
• Gender and Poetic Friendship
• Avant-Garde Poetic Careers

Nicole Rizzuto
Associate Professor

• Critical Theory
• Modernism
• Postcolonial/Anglophone Literature

Phil Sandick
Assistant Teaching Professor

• Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy

• Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

• Contemporary Fiction

• The Short Story

Henry Schwarz
Professor

• Literary Theory

• Cultural Studies

• Postcolonialism

• India, Justice and Peace Studies

• Social Change

Karen Shaup
Associate Teaching Professor

• Modernism
• Digital Humanities
• Composition Pedagogy

Daniel Shore
Associate Professor
Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

• Early Modern Literature
• Digital Humanities
• Linguistics
• Intellectual History

Christine So
Associate Professor

• Asian American Studies

• Critical Race Studies

• Law and Literature

Noël Sugimura
Associate Professor

• Milton

Rebecca Tarsa
Assistant Teaching Professor

• Digital and Web Writing

• Multimodal Composing

• Professional Writing

• Visual and Digital Rhetoric

• New Media Literacy

• Rhetoric and Pedagogy

• Digital Communities and Participation

• Games and Learning

• Writing Program Administration (focusing on instructor training and program development)

• Writing Across the Curriculum

Kathryn Temple
Associate Professor

• 18th Century Literature and Culture

• Law, Culture and the Humanities

• Writing and Professional Writing

• Graduate Education in the Humanities

• Value of the Humanities

Norma Tilden
Teaching Professor

• Writing and Writing Pedagogy

• Nonfiction Prose

• Contemporary Essay

• Nature Writing

• Ecocriticism

Kelley Wickham-Crowley
Associate Professor

• Old English and Early Middle English literature
• Intersections of Physical and Intellectual Culture
• Early Medieval Archaeology of the British Isles
• Feminist and Gender Theory and Medieval Sexualities
• Anglo-Saxon architecture
• Laamon’s Brut (12th century verse history of Britain and Arthur)
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Writings
• Fantasy and Science Fiction

Duncan Wu
Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies

• Poetry
• British Romanticism
• Postwar British Drama