Faculty

Randy Bass

Vice Provost for Education
Executive Director, CNDLS
Director, Visible Knowledge Project
Professor of English

• Learning
• Pedagogy & Design
• Impact of Digital Technologies on Education

Caetlin Benson-Allott

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

• US Film History
• Film Theory
• Video and Digital Media Cultures
• New Media Studies
• Feminist and Queer Theory
• Materialism and Object Studies
• Horror Media

Michael Collins

Teaching Professor

• Shakespeare and Anglo-Welsh Poetry of the 20th-Century
• Shakespeare
• Modern British Drama
• Medieval/Renaissance Drama

Maureen Corrigan

The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism

• 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, CNDLS

• Writing Studies
• Faculty Development
• Graduate Education
• Victorian Literature

Jennifer Natalya Fink

Professor

• Creative Writing
• Performance Studies
• Queer Theory

Carolyn Forché

University Professor

• 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

• Creative Writing, Fiction
• Creative Writing, Non-Fiction
• Witness Literature
• Transnational Literature

Pamela Fox

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

• 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

• Creative Writing
• Poetry Writing
• Modern & Contemporary Poems
• The Lyric
• “Investigative” Poems
• Composition

John Glavin

Professor
Director, Georgetown Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Research

• Writing for the Screen
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction
• Adaptation

Nathan Hensley

Associate Professor

• Victorian Literature
• Literary Theory
• Cultures of Contemporary Globalization
• The Novel
• Ecology

John C. Hirsh

Professor

• Medieval Literature
• Chaucer
• Religious and Secular Lyrics
• Medieval Spirituality
• Mysticism
• Late Medieval Devotion
• 19th-Century American Literature
• Urban Literacy

Brian Hochman

Associate Professor

• American Studies
• 19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture
• Film and Media Studies

M. Lindsay Kaplan

Professor

• Shakespeare
• Early Modern English drama
• Religion
• Race
• Gender
• Bible as Literature

Sherry Lee Linkon

Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiatives

• Teaching and learning in the humanities
• Working-class studies
• American literature

David Lipscomb

Assistant Teaching Professor
Director, Writing Center

• Writing Studies
• Professional Writing
• Writing Center Studies and Administration

Eddie Maloney

Executive Director, CNDLS
Professor of the Practice

• 20th Century Modern and Postmodern Fiction
• Narrative Theory
• Critical Theory
• Digital Humanities
• Education Research

Mark McMorris

Professor

• Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry & Poetics
• Avant-Garde and Experimental Poetry & Poetics
• Poetry Writing
• Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Sarah McNamer

Professor
Director, Medieval Studies Program

• Medieval Literature and Culture (English, Italian, French)
• Middle English Literature
• The History of Emotion
• Global Medieval Literatures

Lori Merish

Professor
Director of Honors

• 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 Mitchell

Associate Professor
Director, Minority Mentoring Program

• 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

Patrick R. O’Malley

Professor

• 19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Religion and Literature

Lena Cowen Orlin

Professor

• Shakespeare
• Renaissance Drama

Ricardo Ortíz

Associate Professor
Chair, English Department

• US Latin@ Literature and Culture
• Critical Theory
• American Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Gender and Sexuality Studies

Cóilín Parsons

Associate Professor

• Irish Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Modernism

Matthew P. Pavesich

Teaching Professor

• Writing
• Rhetoric
• Composition Pedagogy

Seth Perlow

Associate Teaching Professor

• 20th-Century and Contemporary U.S. Literature
• Poetry and Poetics
• Comparative Media Studies
• Postmodern Fiction
• Critical Theory

John C. Pfordresher

Professor

• 19th-Century British literature
• Catholic Studies: the Catholic Imagination

Amanda Phillips

Assistant Professor

• Media Studies
• Digital Humanities
• Feminist Theory
• Critical Race Theory
• Queer Theory

Libbie S. Rifkin

Teaching Professor

• 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

• Critical Theory
• Modernism
• Postcolonial/Anglophone Literature

Phil Sandick

Assistant Teaching Professor

• Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy
• Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
• Contemporary Fiction
• The Short Story

Karen Shaup

Associate Teaching Professor

• Modernism
• Digital Humanities
• Composition Pedagogy

Daniel Shore

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

• Early Modern Literature
• Digital Humanities
• Linguistics
• Intellectual History

Christine So

Associate Professor

• Asian American Studies
• Critical Race Studies
• Law and Literature

Rebecca Tarsa

Assistant Teaching Professor

• 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

• 18th Century Literature and Culture
• Law, Culture and the Humanities
• Writing and Professional Writing
• Graduate Education in the Humanities
• Value of the Humanities

Norma Tilden

Teaching Professor

• Writing and Writing Pedagogy
• Nonfiction Prose
• Contemporary Essay
• Nature Writing
• Ecocriticism

Kelley Wickham-Crowley

Associate Professor

• 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

• Poetry
• British Romanticism
• Postwar British Drama