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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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
Announcement, Publications
Prof. Duncan Wu Publishes Multiple Poems
Professor Duncan Wu is best known as a literary scholar, but the Department is thrilled to announce publication of some of his poems as well as a chapbook: “Shibboleth” has just appeared in…
April 8, 2026
Announcement, News Story, Publications
Camille Deschapelles (C’26) to Present Honors Thesis Research at Meeting in the Middle Conference
The Department of English congratulates Camille Deschapelles (C’26) on the acceptance of her paper, “Believing in the Grail: Affective Medievalism from Chrétien de Troyes to Dan Brown,” for…
March 11, 2026