Staff directory
Peter Mallios
Executive Director
Anne Arundel Hall
(301) 405-6771
Dr. Mallios is the Executive Director of the Honors College, beginning in July 2020. He is an associate professor in the English department, where he has taught since 2001. He also teaches and tutors in the Goucher Prison Education Partnership.
Prior to his current position in Honors, Mallios directed the Honors Humanities Program from 2007-2010 and was a faculty mentor in the Gemstone Honors Program from 2011-2014. A recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, teaching, and mentorship, Mallios specializes in modern American literature, history, politics, and law as well as the reception of global literatures in the U.S. He is the author and editor of many books and articles, including the prize-winning monograph Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity, and on subjects including multiethnic U.S. literatures, reparations, the U.S. Constitution, digital studies and computational analytics applied to literature, the modern novel, and modern American fiction. He received his Ph.D. in literature from Stanford, a J.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago, and an A.B. in English and economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
