People - Graduate Students & TAs | Department of English

Hamza Ahmad

Assistant Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Decolonial, Digital Literacy, Film/Cinema, Rhetoric and Composition, Translingualism, Writing Pedagogy

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Taiko Aoki-Marcial

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

taikoa@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tues 1pm-2pm In person / Fri 11am-12pm remote (https://washington.zoom.us/j/92407078227)

PDL BA-5

Anthropology, Decolonial, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Multilingualism, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Translingualism, Transnational

Andres Ayala-Patlan

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

andres13@uw.edu

Office Hours: T&Th: 11:30am-12:30pm

PDL B12

Chicana/o, Critical Theory, Culture, Decolonial, Ecocriticism, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global Studies, Latino/a Studies, Philosophy, Postcolonial

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Jennie Baker

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Student
Assistant Director, UW in the High Schools

jenba@uw.edu

21st Century, Decolonial, Disability, Pedagogy, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction

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Olive Brend

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

ombrend@uw.edu

Office Hours: Monday 6-7 pm (Zoom); Tuesday 10am-12noon (PDL B25)

PDL B25

Animal Studies, Creative Writing, Critical Animal Studies, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Ecocriticism, Environment, Gender, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Space/Place, Trans Studies

Cadaxa Chapman Ball

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

cadaxa@uw.edu

Office Hours: TTH 11:30-12:30

PDL B12

Affect, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Decolonial, Environment, Postcolonial, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Space/Place, Writing Pedagogy

Abhivyakti (Avu) Chaturvedi

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

achatur@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mon/Wed 10:30am-12:00pm

PDL 5BF

African, Asian American, Caribbean, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Decolonial, Film/Cinema, Modernism, Postcolonial, Transatlantic

Kathleen Escarcha

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

Anglophone Filipino Literature, Archives, Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transpacific

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Abygail Gutierrez

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

abygailg@uw.edu

Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Environment, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory

Alex Henry

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

henryal@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursday 10:15a - 12:15p

SAV 417

17th Century, 18th Century, Applied Linguistics, Decolonial, History of the English Language, Ideology, Language Policy, Transatlantic

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Reuven Pinnata

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

reuvenp8@uw.edu

Aesthetics, Comparative Literature, Decolonial, Indonesia/East Indies, Marxism, Nationalism, Postcolonial, Southeast Asia

Molly Porter

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
Assistant Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

mep430@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 3:20-4:20, Th 11-12

PDL 5-5B

19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, American, British, Decolonial, Digital Humanities, Ecocriticism, Environment, Modernism, Religion and Literature

Sanjit Pradhananga

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

sanjitp@uw.edu

B5-M

Culture, Decolonial, Global English, Indigenous, Postcolonial, Translation and Interpretation

Anselma Prihandita

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

anselmap@uw.edu

Autoethnography, Creative Writing, Decolonial, Literacy, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetoric and Composition, Translingualism, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy

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Sanjana Ramesh

Graduate Student

srr428@uw.edu

PDL B25

Bilingualism, Creative Writing, Culture, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place, Speculative Fiction, Transnational

Rebecca Taylor

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
Assistant Director, UW in the High Schools

rjtaylor@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 1-2p

PDL B-22

Anti-racist Writing Pedagogies, Decolonial, Digital Literacy, Faculty Development for Writing Instruction, Multimodality, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Rhetoric and Composition, writing center administration, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration