Acting Assistant Professor Contact Information hitchmk@uw.edu PDL A-308 Office Hours T & Th 11 - 12 Fields of Interest 19th Century American Culture Genre Theory Maritime Literature Sentimental Novel Transatlantic Biography Ph.D., University of Washington, 2020 M.A., CUNY Hunter College, 2014 B.A., Seattle University, 2010 Research Selected Research Hitchman, Matthew Kastrup. Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.Adviser: Eva Cherniavsky Courses Taught Winter 2026ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing ENGL 281 D: Intermediate Expository Writing Autumn 2025ENGL 108 B: Writing Ready: Preparing for College Writing ENGL 109 A: Critical Composition I: Inquiry ENGL 281 C: Intermediate Expository Writing Spring 2025ENGL 182 A: Composition: Multimodal ENGL 200 C: Reading Literary Forms Autumn 2024ENGL 108 D: Writing Ready: Preparing for College Writing ENGL 131 I: Composition: Exposition ENGL 131 J: Composition: Exposition Summer 2024ENGL 111 A: Composition: Literature Spring 2024ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing Winter 2024ENGL 281 F: Intermediate Expository Writing Autumn 2023ENGL 381 A: Advanced Expository Writing Summer 2023ENGL 111 A: Composition: Literature Spring 2023ENGL 121 A: Composition: Social Issues ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing Winter 2023ENGL 121 B: Composition: Social Issues ENGL 281 A: Intermediate Expository Writing Related News Related News Graduate Student Awards and Achievements (November 30, 2018)
