Full-Time Faculty

Randall Bass
Vice President for Strategic Education Initiatives
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Learning, Pedagogy & Design, Impact of Digital Technologies on Education
Email: bassr@georgetown.edu

Caetlin Benson-Allott
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: US Film History, Film Theory, Video and Digital Media Cultures, New Media Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Materialism and Object Studies, Horror Media
Email: cb529@georgetown.edu

Maureen Corrigan
The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism
Research/Teaching Specialities: 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
Email: corrigam@georgetown.edu

Theodora Danylevich (She/They)
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialities: Disability Studies; Gender, Sexuality and Race in 20th C. American Lit/Film; Medical Humanities; Writing; Inclusive Pedagogies and Universal Design for Learning
Email: td87@georgetown.edu

Margaret Debelius
Teaching Professor
Director of the Faculty Initiatives, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
Research/Teaching Specialities: Writing Studies, Faculty Development, Graduate Education, Victorian Literature
Email: margaret.debelius@georgetown.edu

Jennifer Natalya Fink (She/Her/Hers)
Professor
Core Faculty, Disability Studies
Research/Teaching Specialities: Creative Writing, Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Disability Studies
Email: jnf5@georgetown.edu

Carolyn Forché
University Professor
Research/Teaching Specialities: 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
Email: clf39@georgetown.edu

Aminatta Forna, OBE (She/Her/Hers)
Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair
Visiting Professor
Research/Teaching Specialities: Creative Writing (Fiction and Non-Fiction), Witness Literature, Transnational Literature
Email: aminatta.forna@georgetown.edu

Pamela Fox
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research/Teaching Specialities: 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

David Gewanter (He/Him/His)
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialities: Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Modern & Contemporary Poems, The Lyric, “Investigative” Poems, Composition, Travel Writing
Email: gewanted@georgetown.edu

John Glavin
Professor
Director, Georgetown Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Research
Research/Teaching Specialities: Writing for the Screen, 19th Century Fiction, Adaptation
Email: glavinj@georgetown.edu

John C. Hirsh (He/Him/His)
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialities: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Religious and Secular Lyrics, Medieval Spirituality, Mysticism, Late Medieval Devotion, 19th-Century American Literature, Urban Literacy
Email: hirshj@georgetown.edu

Brian Hochman (He/Him/His)
Professor
Program Director, American Studies
Research/Teaching Specialities: U.S. Cultural History, 19th and 20th-Century American Literature and Culture, Film and Media Studies, Sound Studies, Surveillance Studies
Email: brian.hochman@georgetown.edu

M. Lindsay Kaplan (She/Her/Hers)
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialities: Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Pre-Modern Critical Race Studies, Gender, Shakespeare
Email: kaplanl@georgetown.edu

Peggy Lee (She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Professor
Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Research/Teaching Specialities: Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literature and Poetry, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Women of Color Feminisms, Disability Studies, Performance Studies, Sound and Media Studies
Email: peggy.lee@georgetown.edu

Sherry Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing and Curriculum Initiatives
Research/Teaching Specialities: Teaching and Learning in the Humanities, Working-Class Studies, American Literature
Email: sherry.linkon@georgetown.edu

David Lipscomb
Associate Teaching Professor
Director of the Writing Program
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Professional Writing, Writing Center Studies and Administration
Email: dcl@georgetown.edu

Eddie Maloney
Executive Director, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
Professor of the Practice
Research/Teaching Specialties: African American Literary & Cultural Studies, African American Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th Century Modern and Postmodern Fiction, Narrative Theory, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Education Research
Email: eddie.maloney@georgetown.edu

Mark McMorris
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, Avant-Garde and Experimental Poetry & Poetics, Poetry Writing, Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Email: mcmorrim@georgetown.edu

Sarah McNamer
Professor
Director, Global Medieval Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Medieval Literature and Culture (English, Italian, French), Middle English Literature, The History of Emotion, Global Medieval Studies, World Literature, Chaucer
Email: mcnamer@georgetown.edu

Lori Merish
Professor
Director of Honors
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

Angelyn L. Mitchell
Associate Professor
Director, Minority Mentoring Program
Research/Teaching Specialties: 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
Email: angelyn.mitchell@georgetown.edu

Amani Morrison (She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: African American Literature and Culture, Housing and Home, Digital Humanities, Urban Humanities, Interdisciplinary Methods, Harlem Renaissance and Black Chicago Renaissance, Black Coming-of-Age Narratives; Race, Place, and Representation, Literature and the Archive
Email: amani.morrison@georgetown.edu

Patrick R. O’Malley
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Religion and Literature
Email: pro@georgetown.edu

Ricardo Ortíz
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: US Latinx Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: ricardo.ortiz@georgetown.edu

Cóilín Parsons
Associate Professor
Director of Global Irish Studies Program
Research/Teaching Specialties: Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Modernism
Email: coilin.parsons@georgetown.edu

Seth Perlow
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th-Century and Contemporary U.S. Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Comparative Media Studies, Postmodern Fiction, Critical Theory
Email: seth.perlow@georgetown.edu

Amanda Phillips (They/He/She)
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory
Email: amanda.phillips@georgetown.edu

Nicole Rizzuto
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Critical Theory, Modernism, Postcolonial/Anglophone Literature
Email: nr381@georgetown.edu

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

Daniel Shore
Professor
Department Chair
Research/Teaching Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Intellectual History
Email: daniel.shore@georgetown.edu

Christine So
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Asian American Studies, Critical Race Studies, Law and Literature
Email: christine.so@georgetown.edu

Mecca Sullivan
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: African American and African Diaspora Literature, Black Feminism, Queer Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Creative Writing
Email: mecca.sullivan@georgetown.edu

Rebecca Tarsa
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 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
Email: rebecca.tarsa@georgetown.edu

Kathryn Temple (She/Her/Hers)
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@georgetown.edu

Kelley Wickham-Crowley
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 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
Email: wickhamk@georgetown.edu

Duncan Wu
Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Poetry, British Romanticism, Postwar British Drama
Email: duncan.wu@georgetown.edu