Patrick R. O’Malley
Department Chair
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Religion and Literature
Email: pro(at)georgetown(dot)edu
Faculty Directors
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 (He/Him/His)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Victorian Literature; Critical Theory; Environmental Humanities
Email: nathan.hensley(at)georgetown(dot)edu
Kathryn Temple (She/Her/Hers)
Professor
Director of Honors, Director of the Creative Writing Minor
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
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Announcement, Publications
Professor Wu Publishes New Poem
The department proudly announces publication of a poem, “Shivers,” by Professor Duncan Wu in the literary magazine, Clepsydra, a highly regarded independent…
September 16, 2026
Announcement, Publications
The department is pleased to announce the publication of the late Brazilian activist and quilombo leader Antônio Bispo dos Santos’ The Earth Gives, the Earth Wants (Polity Press, 2026),…
September 2, 2026
Announcement, News Story, Publications
Peggy K. Lee Selected for Penn State First Book Institute
Peggy Kyoungwon Lee has been selected as one of eight participants in the First Book Institute at Penn State, a highly competitive program housed in the Center for American Literary Studies. The…
April 8, 2026