Faculty Profiles

Glen M. Johnson: Ordinary Professor of English and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies (School of Arts and Sciences). Ph.D., Indiana University, 1976. Research interests: American literature, history and theory of narrative, mass media rhetoric and aesthetics, cultural studies and performance theory. Publications include volumes in Journals, Notebooks, and Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson; articles on 19th and 20th-century American literature, British fiction, canon formation, popular culture and film, experimental literature and performance.

Lilla Kopár: Assistant Professor of English and member of the Medieval and Byzantine Studies Program. Ph.D., University of Szeged, Hungary, 2004. Research interests: Old English language and literature, the visual culture of the Anglo-Saxons, Viking-age stone sculpture, the conversion of the Vikings, Christian iconography, and Germanic mythology. Publications include articles on Old English literature, Viking-age stone sculpture, Anglo-Saxon art, and the culture of medieval Scandinavia.

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Michael Mack: Associate Professor of English and Undergraduate Advising Coordinator. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1998. Research interests include Shakespeare; sixteenth and seventeenth-century English poetry; Renaissance literary theory. He recently completed Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation (CUA Press, 2005) and is currently working on a book on Shakespeare. For office hours and other information, visit http://faculty.cua.edu/mackm.

Christina Hunt Mahony: Lecturer and Acting Director of The Center for Irish Studies. Ph.D., University College, Dublin, 1988. Research interests: Anglo-Irish poetry and drama, Victorian and modern literature. Publications include Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition; articles in Irish University Review; Yeats: An Annual; The Comparatist; Etudes Theatrales; essays in Troubled Histories, Troubled Fictions: Twentieth-century Anglo-Irish Prose and Gender Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Public and Private. Dr. Mahony is the editor of Sebastian Barry: Reclaiming Pasts in a Changing Ireland which will be published in Dublin in 2005.

Robert Mahony: Ordinary Professor of English; General Editor, Irish Dramatic Texts (Catholic University of America Press). Ph.D., Trinity College, Dublin, 1974. Research interests: 18th-century English and Anglo-Irish literature, politics and history; Swift; writing by and about women in the 18th century; modern Irish literature; bibliography. Publications include Different Styles of Poetry (1978); Christopher Smart: An Annotated Bibliography 1743-1938 (1984) and The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart (1991), both with B. W. Rizzo; Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (1995); essays and reviews on Swift, Goldsmith, Smart and other 18th-century writers, pastoral poetry, Yeats and other modern Irish writers. Dr. Mahony is Director of the Annual Dublin Symposia on Jonathan Swift, a conference series archived at this site.

Anca Nemoianu: Lecturer and Director of the Intensive English Program. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986. Research interests: pragmatics, discourse analysis, linguistic grammars, second language acquisition and development (lexico-semantics, reading, writing). Publications include The Boat's Gonna Leave: A Study of Children Learning a Second Language (1980); articles, book chapters, and reviews on topics in applied linguistics and the teaching of linguistics to undergraduates; member, Undergraduate Program Advisory Committe of the Linguistic Society of America.

Virgil P. Nemoianu: W. J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy; member of the Comparative Literature Program. Ph.D., University of California, 1971; doctor honoris causa, University of Cluj, Romania. Vice President of the International Comparative Literature Association; member, Executive Council of the Association for Literary Scholars and Critics; member, European Academy of Arts and Sciences. Research interests: Literary Theory, Romanticism, 19th- and 20th-century intellectual history, 20th-century literature, religion and literature. Author of 16 books, approximately 500 articles and reviews, including The Taming of Romanticism (1984), A Theory of the Secondary (1989), co-editor, The Hospitable Canon (1991); Play, Literature, and Religion (1993); co-editor with S. Sondrup, Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders, Vol. 18 in the ICLA series "Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages" (2004).

Anne O'Donnell, S.N.D.: Emerita Professor of English. Ph.D., Yale University, 1972. Research interests: Renaissance Humanism, Early English Reformation, literature by and about women, religion and literature. Publications include Erasmus, Enchiridion Militis Christiani: An English Version (1981); editor of Word, Church, and State: Tyndale Quincentary Essays (1998); Editor, William Tyndale, Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue (2000); articles on Erasmus, Luther, More, Tyndale. Executive Editor, Independent Works of William Tyndale

Joseph M. Sendry: Ordinary Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in English; Director of the Comparative Literature Program. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963. Editorial Advisory Boards of Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Poetry. Research interests: Victorian literature, Tennyson, modern British and Irish literature, Joyce. Publications on Keats, Tennyson's poetry and bibliography, Edward FitzGerald, Hopkins, Richard Murphy, and the English elegy.

Ernest Suarez: Ordinary Professor and Chair of the Department of English. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989. Editorial Board of The Texas Review. Advising and contributing editor to The James Dickey Newsletter. Research interests: 20th-century American literature, literature of the American South, politics and literature. Publications include James Dickey and the Politics of Canon: Assessing the Savage Ideal (1993); Southbound: Interviews with Contemporary Southern Poets (1999), assisted by Thomas Stanford and Amy Verner; articles on Dickey, Pound, R. P. Warren, Dave Smith, Adcock, E. B. Voight, Seay, Hummer, Bottoms, Komunyakaa, the New Criticism, the New Left, the politics of canon formation, and southern rock and blues (especially the Allman Brothers Band). Selected as District of Columbia Professor of the Year (1999) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching;  Fulbright Fellow in Spain and China.

Pamela Ward: Assistant Professor for Clinical Practice, Director of Composition and Writing Programs. Ph.D., The Catholic University of America

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Christopher Wheatley: Ordinary Professor of English. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987. Research interests: 17th- and 18th-century English and Irish drama, 20th-century American and Irish drama, rhetorical concerns in literature and philosophy. Publications include Without God or Reason: Secular Ethics in the Restoration and the Plays of Thomas Shadwell (1993), "Beneath Ierne's Banners": Protestant Irish Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1999), Plays from Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, co-edited with Kevin Donovan (2 vols., 2003), and "Poland Is Not Yet Lost": Heroic and Tragic Tales for the Polish Diaspora (2004); articles on Thornton Wilder, Thomas Durfey, Thomas Otway, David Hume, Katherine Philips, and sex and marriage in Restoration comedy.

Rosemary Winslow: Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Catholic University of American, 1984. Director, National Capital Area Writing Project 1982-1990. Research interests: Teaching writing, American poetry since 1850, prosody, stylistics, composition theory and pedagogy, intersections of rhetoric and poetics. Publications include articles in books and journals on prosody theory, Whitman, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, composition, classical rhetoric, critical literacy, theory and pedagogy, and language and civil society.

Stephen Wright: Ordinary Professor and member of the Medieval and Byzantine Studies Program and the Comparative Literature Program. B.Phil (Medieval Studies) University of York, 1978; Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) Indiana University, 1984;  Rotary Foundation Fellowship to Germany; Fulbright Fellowships to the United Kingdom and Poland. Click here to see a complete resume

• Research: Medieval English and European literature; interdisciplinary approaches to medieval drama, art and music.
• Publications: The Vengeance of Our Lord: Medieval Dramatizations of the Destruction of Jerusalem (1989); Medieval German Drama: Four Plays in Translation (2003); articles on Middle English literature; comparative studies of English, German, French, Latin, and Swedish drama; translations of Latin and German drama.

• Creator of online databases

  • Medieval European Drama in Translation
  • York Cycle of Mystery Plays (Toronto 1998)
  • Hyper/Hagiography: Materials Relating to Archbishop Richard Scrope