Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Randy Bass
Vice President for Strategic Education Initiatives
Professor of English
Research/Teaching Specialties: Learning, Pedagogy & Design, Impact of Digital Technologies on Education
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Caetlin Benson-Allott
Provost’s Distinguished Associate 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
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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
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Margaret Debelius
Teaching Professor
Director of Faculty Initiatives, CNDLS
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Faculty Development, Graduate Education, Victorian Literature
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Jennifer Natalya Fink
Professor
Director of the Program in Disability Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Creative Writing, Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Disability Studies
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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
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Aminatta Forna, OBE
Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair
Visiting Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Creative Writing (Fiction and Non-Fiction), Witness Literature, Transnational
Literature
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Pamela Fox
Professor
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
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David Gewanter
Professor
Director of Creative Writing Minor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Modern & Contemporary Poems, The Lyric,
“Investigative” Poems, Composition
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John Glavin
Professor
Director, Georgetown Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Research
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing for the Screen, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Adaptation
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Nathan Hensley
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Victorian Literature, Literary Theory, Cultures of Contemporary Globalization,
The Novel, Ecology
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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
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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
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M. Lindsay Kaplan
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Shakespeare, Early Modern English Drama, Religion, Race, Gender, Bible as
Literature
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Sherry Lee Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiatives
Research/Teaching Specialties: Teaching and Learning in the Humanities, Working- Class Studies, American
Literature
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David Lipscomb
Assistant Teaching Professor
Director of the Writing Center
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Professional Writing, Writing Center Studies and Administration
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Eddie Maloney
Executive Director, CNDLS
Professor of the Practice
Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th Century Modern and Postmodern Fiction, Narrative Theory, Critical Theory,
Digital Humanities, Education Research
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Mark McMorris
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, Avant-Garde and
Experimental Poetry & Poetics, Poetry Writing, Postcolonial Literature and Theory
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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
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Lori Merish
Professor
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
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Angelyn 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
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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
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Patrick R. O’Malley
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality
Studies, Religion and Literature
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Lena Cowen Orlin
Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama
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Ricardo Ortíz
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of English
Research/Teaching Specialties: US Latinx Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, American Studies, Cultural
Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Cóilín Parsons
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Modernism
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Matthew P. Pavesich
Teaching Professor
Associate Director of the Writing Program
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing, Rhetoric, Composition Pedagogy
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Seth Perlow
Associate Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th-Century and Contemporary U.S. Literature, Poetry and Poetics,
Comparative Media Studies, Postmodern Fiction, Critical Theory
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Amanda Phillips
Assistant Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Queer
Theory
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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
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Nicole Rizzuto
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Critical Theory, Modernism, Postcolonial/Anglophone Literature
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Phil Sandick
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Research Methods in Rhetoric and
Composition, Contemporary Fiction, The Short Story
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Karen Shaup
Associate Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Modernism, Digital Humanities, Composition Pedagogy
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Daniel Shore
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Intellectual History
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Christine So
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Asian American Studies, Critical Race Studies, Law and Literature
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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
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Kathryn Temple
Professor
Director of Honors
Interim Director of Graduate Studies (2020–21)
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
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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
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Duncan Wu
Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies
Research/Teaching Specialties: Poetry, British Romanticism, Postwar British Drama
Faculty Lecturers
Sara Bakerman
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Film and Television History, Stardom and Celebrity Studies, Nostalgia and
Memory in Popular Culture, Feminist Historiography, and Gender and Sexuality in the US Media Industries
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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
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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
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Kelly Cole
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: 20th-Century American Culture, Television History and Criticism, Film Studies,
Representations of Race and Gender in Media, Advertising
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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
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Ellen Gorman
Lecturer
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Sara Schotland
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Disability Studies, Law and Literature, Literature of War, Utopia/Dystopia Studies
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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
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Erin Spampinato
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature, the History of the Novel, Women
Writers, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sexual Violence Studies, Feminist Criticism, Children’s Literature
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Niles Tomlinson
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: American Gothic Fiction, 19th Century American Literature, Animal Studies
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Tope Folarin
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, American and World Literatures
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Dennis Williams
Lecturer
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Joy Young
Lecturer
Writing Program Faculty
Core Faculty
Sherry Lee Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiatives
Research/Teaching Specialties: Teaching and Learning in the Humanities, Working-Class Studies, American
Literature
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David Lipscomb
Director of the Writing Center
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Professional Writing, Writing Center Studies and Administration
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Matthew P. Pavesich
Associate Director of the Writing Program
Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing, Rhetoric, Composition Pedagogy
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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
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Phil Sandick
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Research Methods in Rhetoric and
Composition, Contemporary Fiction, The Short Story
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Karen Shaup
Associate Teaching Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Modernism, Digital Humanities, Composition Pedagogy
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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
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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
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Jacques Berlinerblau
Rabbi Harold White Chair in Jewish Civilization
Research/Teaching Specialties: Secularism, Religion and Politics, Jewish-American Fiction, African-American and
Jewish-American Relations, American Higher Education (new window)
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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
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Nate Brown
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction Writing, Journalism, Literary Journal Editing,
Publishing, Digital Publishing
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Elliott Colla
Associate Professor
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
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Theodora Danylevich
Lecturer
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Research/Teaching Interests: Academic Writing, American Literature, Disability Studies, Health Equity, Medical
Humanities
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Stacy Day
Lecturer
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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
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Kathryn Goodman
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Professional Writing, New Media Rhetoric, Environmental Rhetoric,
Sociolinguistics, Instructional Methodologies
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Svetlana Grenier
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
Research/Teaching Specialties: Issues of Gender, Russian Women Writers, Moral Questions in Literature
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Laura Hartmann-Villalta
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
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Nathan Hensley
Associate Professor
Research/Teaching Specialties: Victorian Literature, Literary Theory, Cultures of Contemporary Globalization,
The Novel, Ecology
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Hunter Hoskins
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: Writing Studies, Rhetoric, Composition Pedagogy
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Jee Yoon Lee
Lecturer
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George Mihaychuk
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
Research/Teaching Specialties: Issues in late-19th Century Russian Literature, Discourse or Functional Approach
to Narration, Rhetoric, Ukrainian Literature (from the 1800s to 1930s), Translation
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Alis Sandosharaj
Lecturer
Academic Director, Community Scholars Program
Research/Teaching Specialties: American Studies, Critical Race Theory, African-American Studies, Ethnic Studies,
Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Ethnography, Composition/Rhetoric, 20th Century American Literature, Atheism
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Niles Tomlinson
Lecturer
Research/Teaching Specialties: American Gothic Fiction, 19th Century American Literature, Animal Studies
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Joy Young
Lecturer
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
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Lakshmi Krishnan
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Affiliate Faculty, English
Faculty Fellow, Georgetown 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
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Matthew Tinkcom
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Director of Communications, Culture and Technology Program
Emeritus Faculty
Paul Betz
Research Specialties: British Romantic Poetry, Wordsworth, Coleridge
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 Interests: Shakespeare and Anglo-Welsh Poetry of the 20th-Century, Shakespeare, Modern British Drama, Medieval/Renaissance Drama
Barbara Feinman Todd
Research Specialties: Investigative Reporting, Voice, Memoir
Lucy Maddox
Research Specialties: Slavery and Free Black People in the Mid-Atlantic Region
George O’Brien
Research Specialties: Irish Literature 1800–Present, Autobiography
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
Dennis Todd
Research Specialties: 18th-Century British and American Literature, William Byrd