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
Nicole Rizzuto (She/Her/Hers)
Director of Honors
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Critical Theory; Modernism; Postcolonial/Anglophone Literature
Email: nr381(at)georgetown(dot)edu
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
Faculty Publications
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Announcement, News Story, Publications
Prof. Rabih Alameddine Awarded National Book Award for Fiction
It gives the Department of English and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice great pleasure to announce our very own Lannan Foundation Visiting Chair at Georgetown University, Rabih…
November 20, 2025
Announcement, Publications
Prof. Duncan Wu Published in Beyond Queer Words
The Dept. of English is proud to announce that Prof. Duncan Wu’s poem, “Love at 30,000 feet,” has just been published in Beyond Queer Words (9th…
October 21, 2025
Announcement, News Story, Publications
Prof. Rabih Alameddine Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
The department is excited to announce that Lannan Visiting Lecturer Rabih Alameddine has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction, for his new novel The True True Story of Raja…
September 22, 2025