Faculty Directors
Daniel Shore
Department Chair
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Intellectual History
Email: daniel.shore@georgetown.edu
Patrick R. O’Malley
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Religion and Literature
Email: pro@georgetown.edu
Pamela Fox
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: American and British Working-Class Literature and Culture, Country Music, Feminist Theory, Literature by Women, Transracial and Transnational Adoption, Motherhood Memoirs and Literature
Email: foxp@georgetown.edu
Lori Merish
Director of Honors
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th and 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture, Feminist Theory and Women’s Writing, Multi-Ethnic and Working-Class U.S. Literatures, Literature and Material Culture (including “Thing Theory” and Theories of Commodity Culture), Transatlanticism, Literature and Economic Justice
Email: lam34@georgetown.edu
Phil Sandick
Director of the Creative Writing Minor
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition, Contemporary Fiction, The Short Story
Email: ps1129@georgetown.edu