People - Graduate Program Faculty | Department of English

Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Department Chair
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL A-101

20th Century, 21st Century, Aesthetics, African American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literary Criticism, Literature

Chadwick Allen

Professor
Associate Vice Provost, Office for Academic Personnel and Faculty
Russell F. Stark University Professor

callen3@uw.edu / 206-543-6616

Office Hours: By Appt

GRB 405

American Indian/Native American, Culture, Frontier Studies, Indigenous, Literature, Maori Literature and Culture, Oceanic, Postcolonial, US Western Literature

Anis Bawarshi

Professor
Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor

bawarshi@uw.edu / 206-543-9400

Office Hours: 10:00-11:00 Tues. and Thurs. or by appointment

PDL A-404

Genre Theory, Pedagogy, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration

Linda Bierds

Professor Emerita

lbierds@uw.edu / 206-543-9623

PDL B-406

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Contemporary World Poetry, Poetry and Poetics

Nancy Bou Ayash

Associate Professor
Faculty Mentor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

nbayash@uw.edu / 206-543-2612

Office Hours: Th 1:00-3:00 & by appointment

PDL A-418

Global English, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Rhetoric and Composition, Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30; W 8-9 am & by appt

PDL A-502

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, British, Fashion, Gender, Literature, Modernism, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Visual Culture

Eva Cherniavsky

Professor
Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture
Director of Graduate Studies

ec22@uw.edu / 206-543-6077

Office Hours: Th 2:30-4:00 PM and by appointment

PDL A-103

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, Postcolonial, Television

Laura Chrisman

Professor
Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English

lhc3@uw.edu / N/A

Office Hours: email appointment (not teaching or advising this quarter)

PDL B-401

19th Century, 20th Century, African, British, Literature of Empire, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, South African Literature

Stephanie Clare

Associate Professor
Director, Undergraduate Programs

sclare@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays 12:30 - 1:30 and by appointment

Affect, Ecocriticism, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Philosophy, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Sexuality

Catherine Cole

Professor

colecat@uw.edu

Office Hours: M & W, 2:40-3:40PM, by appointment, in Padelford B435

Padelford B435

African, Disability, Drama, Performance Studies, Theater History, Transatlantic, Transnational

David Nikki Crouse

Professor

dcrouse@uw.edu / 907-687-7755

Office Hours: T 1:30 - 300 PM

PDL B-430

Comics, Creative Writing, Experimental, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Novella, Queer Studies

Andrew Feld

Associate Professor
Editor, Seattle Review
Director, Creative Writing

aefeld@uw.edu / 206-543-9865

Office Hours: Tuesday, 1-3

PDL B-432 & B-025 Creative Writing Director's Office

Poetry and Poetics

Tom Foster

Professor

tfoster@uw.edu / 206-543-8635

Office Hours: By appointment only; email me to request appointment

PDL B-424

Culture, Gender, Literature, Science and Technology, Science Fiction

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu

Office Hours: M/W 1:00 - 2:00 or message for an appointment

PDL A-504

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Law, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, Queer Studies

Professor Ishii, photographed against that Seattle grey

Douglas Ishii

Assistant Professor

dsishii@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 5:30-6:30; Th 3:00-4:00 (zoom); by appointment

PDL B-419

20th Century, 21st Century, Asian American, Gender, Media Studies, Music, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Monika Kaup

Professor

mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989

Office Hours: winter 2026: on leave

PDL B-433

20th Century, 21st Century, Apocalyptic Literature, Baroque and Neobaroque, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Criticism, Literature, Modernism, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Transamerican

Stephanie Kerschbaum

Professor
Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

kersch@uw.edu

Office Hours: WI26: T 12-1; W 1-2 and by appointment

Padelford A-11F

Access and Inclusion, Disability, Expository Writing, Narrative Analysis, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Sociolinguistics, Writing Pedagogy

Jeffrey Todd Knight

Associate Professor

jtknight@uw.edu

Office Hours: F 11:30-1:30

PDL A-417

16th Century, 17th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies

Charles LaPorte

Professor

laporte@uw.edu / 206-543-7881

PDL A-508

19th Century, Genre Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Religion and Literature, Romanticism, Shakespeare

Colette Moore

Associate Professor

cvmoore@uw.edu / 206-543-2182

Office Hours: T 1:30-3:20, or by appointment

PDL B-421

English, History of the English Language, Language, Linguistics, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Sociolinguistics

Suhanthie Motha

Associate Professor

smotha@uw.edu / smotha@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment (not teaching, RRF Quarter)

PDL A-413

Applied Linguistics, Critical Race Theory, Education, Global English, Language Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Leila Kate Norako

Associate Professor

lknorako@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment (please email)

PDL A-309

Digital Humanities, Fantasy, Gender, Literary Criticism, Medieval, Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies

Rae Paris

Associate Professor

parisr@uw.edu / (206) 543-2274

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B436

Anna Preus

Assistant Professor

apreus@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter '26: Tuesday 9-10 on Zoom (email for link); Thursday, 2:15-3:15 in person

PDL B-426

20th Century, Digital Humanities, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial, Textual Studies

Jonathan Radocay

Assistant Professor

jradocay@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 4:00-5:00 PM (in-person); T 3:00-4:00 PM (virtual)

PDL B-403

19th Century, 20th Century, American Indian/Native American, Community, Culture, Indigenous, Literature, Modernism, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity

Candice Rai

Professor
Faculty Coordinator, UW in the High School

crai@uw.edu / 206-543-0758

Office Hours: Monday 1:30-2:30 in office and by appointment (email with availability)

PDL A-401

Affect, Material Rhetorics, Public Scholarship, Publics/Public Spheres, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Space/Place, Urban Studies, Writing Pedagogy

Alexandria Ramos

Assistant Professor

anramos@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays 2-4pm

Padelford B427

19th Century, 20th Century, American, Asian American, Chicana/o, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Latino/a Studies, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity

Brian Reed

Professor
Divisional Dean of Humanities
Milliman Endowed Chair in the Humanities

bmreed@uw.edu / (206) 685-9969

Office Hours: By appointment

CMU 50

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Australasia, Comparative Literature, Experimental, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Paul Remley

Professor

remley@uw.edu / 206-543-6357

Office Hours: Thu 5:00-7:00 PM and by Appointment

Literature, Old English

Janelle Rodriques

Associate Professor

jar0118@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW, 14:00-16:00 via Zoom, by appointment.

PDL B-405

20th Century, 21st Century, Black Atlantic, Black Futurity, Caribbean, Critiquing the Human, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Literary Tricksters, Postcolonial, Transatlantic

Cristina Sánchez-Martín

Assistant Professor

csanch2@uw.edu

Applied Linguistics, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Multilingualism, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy

Priti Sandhu

Associate Professor

sandhu28@uw.edu / 206-543-4233

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B-425

Applied Linguistics, Autoethnography, Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Gender, Interview-based Research, Language Pedagogy, Medium of Education, Multilingualism, Narrative Analysis, Research Methods, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Maya Sonenberg

Professor

mayas@uw.edu / 206-543-4264. As I rarely check messages on this number, it's much better to email me.

Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30-11:30, Thursday 3:00-4:00, and by appointment.

Padelford B-431

Creative Writing

Henry Staten

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hstaten@uw.edu / 206-779-1098

Office Hours: T-W 10-11

PDL B-409

19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, British, Derrida, Genre Theory, Literature, Modernism, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Wittgenstein

William Streitberger

Professor

streitwr@uw.edu / 206-9281069

Office Hours: Tu Th 11:30

PDL A-510

16th Century, 17th Century, British, Drama, History, Literature, Shakespeare, Textual Theory and Practice, World Drama

Jesse Oak Taylor

Professor

jot8@uw.edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

PDL A-408

19th Century, British, Climate change, Conservation, Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science and Technology, the Anthropocene

Pimone Triplett

Professor

ptrip@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment (please just email to schedule)

PDL A-416

Asian American, Creative Writing, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literary Criticism, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity

Josephine Walwema

Teaching Professor

walwema@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 2:30 -4:00

PDL A-G11

and Scientific Communication; Business Writing. Ethics of Access and Inclusion, Professional, Rhetorical Theory, Technical

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Professor

alysw@uw.edu

Office Hours: Office hours by appointment Tues and Thurs 3:30-4:30

PDL B-408

African American, Critical Theory, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Transatlantic

Shawn Wong

Professor
Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

homebase@uw.edu / 206-616-0941

Office Hours: M-F , 10-5:00, by appointment only (not teaching classes Winter Quarter 2026)

PDL B-423

Asian American, Creative Writing

Kathleen Woodward

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

kw1@uw.edu

Office Hours: BY Appt

PDL 403

20th Century, Aging, American, Culture, Discourses of the Emotions, Literature, Science and Technology