Department of English

John Glavin, Professor of English and Director of the Gervase Programs, has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1967. A Victorianist and a playwright, he focuses on issues of adaptation, particularly of earlier work in the nineteenth century and of nineteenth-century texts to the contemporary stage and screen. He teaches courses in writing for the stage and screen.

Within the Gervase Programs he directly oversees the Carroll Fellows Initiative, Georgetown’s flagship program for its most academically talented and ambitious undergraduates, and also serves as the University’s Fellowship Secretary.

He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, his M.A. from Bryn Mawr, and B.A. from Georgetown University.

His most recent publications include: After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance (Cambridge, 1999), Dickens On Screen (Cambridge, 2003), “’To Make the Situation Natural’: Othello at Mid-Century,” in Victorian Shakespeare, Vol.2 (Palgrave, 2003), and “Dickens and Theatre” in The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (2001).

He is currently completing work on "Death at The Edges," a book-length memoir of teaching Shakespeare’s Italian plays at Georgetown’s Villa LeBalze.