Archive: Faculty
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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…
April 8, 2026
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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&;…
April 8, 2026
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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…
November 20, 2025
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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…
September 22, 2025
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Celebrate a Century of The Great Gatsby With a Professor Who’s Read It 100 Times
Our very own Maureen Corrigan was recently featured in a news story on the College of Arts & Sciences’ page; check out the following excerpt: In April, Georgetown professor…
June 2, 2025
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Professor Hensley publishes new book on the prehistory of the climate crisis
Professor Nathan Hensley has published a new book, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse. The book is a “study of how writers from the early…
May 19, 2025
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English Faculty and Staff Recognized for Excellence in the College of Arts & Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences has awarded three of the members of our department for excellence in teaching, research, and service: Karen Lautman has been awarded the…
March 12, 2025
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Seeing Anew: Making Working-Class Literature Visible Through a Working-Class Intersectional Gaze
Professor Emeritus Pamela Fox and Professor Sherry Linkon collaborated on a new article exploring the idea of a working-class intersectional gaze through analysis of Ocean Vuong&…
February 11, 2025
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Professor Chander publishes the Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
The department is excited to announce the publication of the Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race, edited by Manu Chander. The Companion collects thirteen essays that show…
January 30, 2025
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English Department Faculty Update Statement of Principles – January 15, 2025
The English Department faculty have elected to update their statement of principles on their home page: The Department of English at Georgetown University stands united in its…
January 15, 2025