Faculty Directors
![Headshot of Daniel Shore](https://english.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/274/2019/10/Photo_Shore.jpeg)
Daniel Shore
Department Chair
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Intellectual History
Email: daniel.shore(at)georgetown(dot)edu
![Headshot of Lori Merish](https://english.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/274/2019/10/merish_l_head-shot_c-1-289x300.png)
Lori Merish
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.](https://english.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/274/2024/07/NHHeadshotFINALMay2024-1024x788.jpeg)
Nathan Hensley
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.](https://english.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/274/2023/05/Head-shot-cropped-5-5-23-1024x906.png)
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.](https://english.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/274/2022/10/rsz_1phil_sandick-211x300.jpg)
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(at)georgetown(dot)edu