Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Randall Bass
Vice President for Strategic Education Initiatives
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Learning, Pedagogy & Design, Impact of Digital Technologies on Education
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
Maureen Corrigan
The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism
Research/Teaching Specialties: 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
Margaret Debelius
Teaching Professor
Director of Faculty Initiatives, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Faculty Development, Graduate Education, Victorian Literature
Jennifer Natalya Fink
Professor
Director of the Program in Disability Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Creative Writing, Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Disability Studies
Carolyn Forché
University Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 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
Aminatta Forna, OBE
Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair
Visiting Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Creative Writing (Fiction and Non-Fiction), Witness Literature, Transnational Literature
Pamela Fox
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: American and British Working-Class Literature and Culture, Country Music, Feminist Theory, Literature by Women, Transracial and Transnational Adoption, Motherhood Memoirs and Literature
David Gewanter
Professor
Director of Creative Writing Minor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Modern & Contemporary Poems, The Lyric, “Investigative” Poems, Composition
John Glavin
Professor
Director, Georgetown Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Research
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing for the Screen, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Adaptation
Nathan Hensley
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Victorian Literature, Literary Theory, Cultures of Contemporary Globalization, The Novel, Ecology
John C. Hirsh
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Religious and Secular Lyrics, Medieval Spirituality, Mysticism, Late Medieval Devotion, 19th-Century American Literature, Urban Literacy
Brian Hochman
Associate Professor
Program Director, American Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: American Studies, 19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture, Film and Media Studies
M. Lindsay Kaplan
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Shakespeare, Early Modern English Drama, Religion, Race, Gender, Bible as Literature
Sherry Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiatives
Research/Teaching Specialties: Teaching and Learning in the Humanities, Working- Class Studies, American Literature
David Lipscomb
Associate Teaching Professor
Director of the Writing Center
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Professional Writing, Writing Center Studies and Administration
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
Mark McMorris
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, Avant-Garde and Experimental Poetry & Poetics, Poetry Writing, Postcolonial Literature and Theory
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 Literatures
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
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
Amani Morrison
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
Patrick R. O’Malley
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Religion and Literature
Ricardo Ortíz
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: US Latinx Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Cóilín Parsons
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Modernism
Seth Perlow
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th-Century and Contemporary U.S. Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Comparative Media Studies, Postmodern Fiction, Critical Theory
Amanda Phillips
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory
Libbie S. Rifkin
Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry including Classes in Modernism, African American and Women’s Poetry, Disability Studies, Gender and Poetic Friendship, Avant-Garde Poetic Careers
Nicole Rizzuto
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Critical Theory, Modernism, Postcolonial/Anglophone Literature
Phil Sandick
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition, Contemporary Fiction, The Short Story
Karen Shaup
Associate Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Modernism, Digital Humanities, Composition Pedagogy
Daniel Shore
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Intellectual History
Christine So
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Asian American Studies, Critical Race Studies, Law and Literature
Mecca Sullivan
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: African American and African DiasporaLiterature, Black Feminism, Queer Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Creative Writing
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
Kathryn Temple
Professor
Interim Department Chair, 2021–22
Research/Teaching Specialties: 18th Century Literature and Culture; Law, Culture and the Humanities; Writing and Professional Writing, Graduate Education in the Humanities, Value of the Humanities
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
Duncan Wu
Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Poetry, British Romanticism, Postwar British Drama
Faculty Lecturers
Mary Jane Barnett
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Shakespeare–the Use of Twins in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night, Rhetorical/Spatial Figures both as Theatrical Devices and as Epistemological Poetics, Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Disappointments, Writing and Culture
Rebecca Boylan
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th-20th Century British/Global Literature; Lit, Art, and Film of WWI; Detective Fiction and Film, Victorian Literature and Photography; Exploring Narrative/Prose/Verse through Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Davide Carozza
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: 18th-Century British Literature, Novel Theory, History of Risk Management
Kelly Cole
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th-Century American Culture, Television History and Criticism, Film Studies, Representations of Race and Gender in Media, Advertising
Lisbeth Fuisz
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture, Composition/Rhetoric, Gender Studies/Feminist Theory, Native American Studies, Pedagogy and History of U.S. Education, Critical Multiculturalism and Social Justice Theory, Disability Studies
Sara Schotland
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Disability Studies, Law and Literature, Literature of War, Utopia/Dystopia Studies
Christopher Shinn
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Asian American and African American Literatures, World Literature and Film, Comparative Ethnicities and Race, Theories of Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Pulp Fiction
Niles Tomlinson
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: American Gothic Fiction, 19th Century American Literature, Animal Studies
Writing Program Faculty
Core Faculty
Sherry Lee Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiative
Research/Teaching Specialties: Teaching and Learning in the Humanities, Working-Class Studies, American Literature
David Lipscomb
Director of the Writing Center
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Professional Writing, Writing Center Studies and Administration
Monica Maxwell
Assistant Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Academic Writing for Non-Native English Speakers, American Literature within Cultural and Historical Contexts, English as a Foreign/Second Language, Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics/Sociolinguistics
Phil Sandick
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition, Contemporary Fiction, The Short Story
Karen Shaup
Associate Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Modernism, Digital Humanities, Composition Pedagogy
Rebecca Tarsa
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Digital and Web Writing, Multimodal Composing, Professional Writing, Visual and Digital Rhetoric, New Media Literary, Rhetoric and Pedagogy, Digital Communities and Participation, Games and Learning, Writing Program Administration, Writing Across the Curriculum
Affiliated Writing Faculty
Mary Jane Barnett
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Shakespeare–the Use of Twins in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night, Rhetorical/Spatial Figures both as Theatrical Devices and as Epistemological Poetics, Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Disappointments, Writing and Culture
Rebecca Boylan
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th-20th Century British/Global Literature; Lit, Art, and Film of WWI; Detective Fiction and Film, Victorian Literature and Photography; Exploring Narrative/Prose/Verse through Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Nate Brown
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, Journalism, Literary Journal Editing, Publishing, Digital Publishing
Theodora Danylevich
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Disability Studies; Gender, Sexuality and Race in 20th C. American Lit/Film; Medical Humanities; Writing; Inclusive Pedagogies and Universal Design for Learning
Lisbeth Fuisz
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture, Composition/Rhetoric, Gender Studies/Feminist Theory, Native American Studies, Pedagogy and History of U.S. Education, Critical Multiculturalism and Social Justice Theory, Disability Studies
Bradley Gorski
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
Research/Teaching Specialties: Russian Literature & Culture after the fall of the Soviet Union; Russian language; Russian, Soviet, and Comparative Literature & Culture; Violence and the Undead
Andrew Gretes
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Fiction Writing, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Writing Studies, Humor Studies
Svetlana Grenier
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
Research/Teaching Specialties: Pushkin; Tolstoy; Dostoevsky; Herzen; 19th-Century Russian Women Writers; Reception of British Literature in 19th-Century Russia
Laura Hartmann-Villalta
Director, MA in Engaged and Public Humanities Program
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th Century American and British literature, Human Rights Studies, Visual Culture (particularly Documentary Photography); Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; War Studies
Meghan Modafferi
Senior Learning Designer, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing and Multimodal Composition, Environmental Humanities, Critical Digital Pedagogy
Alis Sandosharaj
Director of Academic Programs, Community Scholars Program
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: American Studies, Critical Race Theory, African-American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Ethnography, Composition/Rhetoric, 20th Century American Literature, Atheism
Christopher Shinn
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Asian American and African American Literatures, World Literature and Film, Comparative Ethnicities and Race, Theories of Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Pulp Fiction
Niles Tomlinson
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: American Gothic Fiction, 19th Century American Literature, Animal Studies
Meri Wimberly
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: English; English Literature; World Literature; Composition and Research; Interdisciplinary Writing; Writing with Film Studies; Remedial English and Writing; Reading Comprehension; Cross-Cultural Competency; Postcolonial Studies; Cultural Studies; Globalization; Diaspora Studies; African and Afrosporic Literature; African and Afrosporic Art, Photography, and Film; African Political History; African Feminisms
Dennis Winston
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: African American Literature, Black Street Literature, Hip-Hop Studies, Cultural Studies
Affiliated Faculty
Mark Bosco, S.J.
Vice President for Mission and Ministry
Research/Teaching Specialties: Intersection of Religion and Art, 20th Century Catholic Literary Tradition
Stephen L. Esquith
Affiliate Faculty, English & Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice
Research: Currently working on a hybrid peace education project in Mali with community partners, university students and faculty, and the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Teaching Specialties: Political Theory and Global Ethics, with an emphasis on Community Engagement, Democracy, Peace, and Justice
Lakshmi Krishnan
Assistant Professor of Medicine & Affiliate Faculty in English
Director of Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative
Research/Teaching Specialties: Literature and Medicine, History of Medicine, Medical Humanities, Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning, Health Equity and History of Health Disparities, Cultural Responses to Illness
Matthew Tinkcom
Professor & Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Director of Communication, Culture & Technology Program
ContactEmeritus Faculty
Gay Gibson Cima
Research Specialties: 18th and 19th Century Feminist Performance History and Theory, Critical Race Theory, Early American Black Women Activists
Michael Collins
Research Specialties: Shakespeare and Anglo-Welsh Poetry of the 20th-Century, Shakespeare, Modern British Drama, Medieval/Renaissance Drama
John Pfordresher
Research Specialties: 19th-Century British literature, Catholic Studies: the Catholic Imagination
Jason Rosenblatt
Research Specialties: 17th Century English Literature & History: John Milton & John Seldon, Biblical Narrative, Literature and Religion, Literature and History
Norma Tilden
Research Specialties: Writing and Writing Pedagogy, Nonfiction Prose, Contemporary Essay, Nature Writing, Ecocriticism
