Faculty Directors

Daniel Shore smiles at the viewer while seated before a white bookcase; he wears a tweed jacket over a grey, collared shirt.

Daniel Shore (He/Him/His)
Department Chair
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Intellectual History
Email: daniel.shore(at)georgetown(dot)edu

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Lori Merish (She/Her/Hers)
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th and 20th Century US Literature and Culture; Feminist Theory and Women’s Writing; Working-Class Literature; Race and Class in US Literature; Literature and Material Culture
Email: lam34(at)georgetown(dot)edu

Nathan Hensley smiles in a grey camp shirt and dark wooden glasses, standing in front of a grove of pine trees.

Nathan Hensley (He/Him/His)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Victorian Literature; Critical Theory; Environmental Humanities
Email: nathan.hensley(at)georgetown(dot)edu

A headshot of Kathryn Temple, a white woman with silver hair wearing a black turtleneck.

Kathryn Temple (She/Her/Hers)
Director of Honors
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: History of Emotion; 18th Century Literature and Culture; Law, Culture and the Humanities; Writing (Creative Non-fiction, Academic); Graduate Education in the Humanities; Value of the Humanities; Engaged and Public Humanities
Email: templek(at)georgetown(dot)edu

A white man in a blue shirt and glasses smiles at the camera.

Phil Sandick (He/Him/His)
Director of the Creative Writing Minor
Associate Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition, Contemporary Fiction, The Short Story
Email: ps1129(at)georgetown(dot)edu