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Robert Abrams

Professor Emeritus

rabrams@uw.edu / 206-765-0547 / PDL B-406

Office Hours: M&W: 3:25-4:25, By appointment

American, Culture, Literature, Philosophy, Space/Place, Visual Culture

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Chadwick Allen

Professor
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Russell F. Stark University Professor

callen3@uw.edu / 206-543-6616 / GRB 340

Office Hours: By Appt

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

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Anis Bawarshi

Professor
Chair
Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor

bawarshi@uw.edu / 206-543-2690 / PDL A-101

Office Hours: By appointment

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

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Linda Bierds

Professor Emerita

lbierds@uw.edu / 206-543-9623 / PDL B-406

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

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David Bosworth

Professor

davidbos@uw.edu / 206-543-2682 / PDL B-407

Office Hours: Office Hours: email me to set up a phone appointment

Creative Writing

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Nancy Bou Ayash

Associate Professor

nbayash@uw.edu / 206-543-2612 / PDL A-418

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

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

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Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181 / PDL A-502

Office Hours: W 11-1

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

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Eva Cherniavsky

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

ec22@uw.edu / 206-543-6077 / PDL A-105

Office Hours: Monday 1-2 and by appt

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

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Laura Chrisman

Professor
Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English

lhc3@uw.edu / N/A / PDL B-401

Office Hours: T: 1-2 pm (office), or by appt

19th Century, 20th Century, African, Black Atlantic, British, Caribbean, Literature of Empire, Nationalism, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, South African Literature, Transnational

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Stephanie Clare

Associate Professor
Director, Undergraduate Programs

sclare@uw.edu / PDL A-419

Office Hours: TH 12:45 - 1:45 and by appointment

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

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Catherine Cole

Professor

colecat@uw.edu / 206-543-7045 / Padelford B435

Office Hours: By appointment on M&W 3:30-4:30PM

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

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David Nikki Crouse

Professor

dcrouse@uw.edu / 907-687-7755 / PDL B-430 & B-025 Creative Writing Director's Office

Office Hours: T 1:30 - 300 PM

Comics, Creative Writing, Experimental, Narrative Analysis, Queer Studies

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Andrew Feld

Associate Professor
Editor, Seattle Review

aefeld@uw.edu / 206-543-9865 / PDL B-432

Office Hours: M&W 1-2

Poetry and Poetics

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Tom Foster

Professor

tfoster@uw.edu / 206-543-8635 / PDL B-424

Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4, in person in my office; Fridays 3-4 over Zoom; and by appointment, either in person or over Zoom; email for appointments.

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

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John Griffith

Associate Professor

jgriff@uw.edu / 206-543-2179 / PDL A-507

Office Hours: by appointment

American, Bible Studies, Literature

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Gary Handwerk

Professor

handwerk@uw.edu / 206-543-2183 / A402

Office Hours: by appointment only

19th Century, 20th Century, Environment, Literature, Narrative Analysis, Romanticism

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Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu / PDL A-504

Office Hours: T/Th 1:00-2:00 or by appointment

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

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Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Associate Chair

hibrahim@uw.edu / PDL A-304

Office Hours: T & Th | 10:00 - 11:00AM & by appointment

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

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Douglas Ishii

Assistant Professor

dsishii@uw.edu / PDL B-419

Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30 and by appointment

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

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Sydney Kaplan

Professor Emerita

sydneyk@uw.edu / 206-685-1538 / PDL A-302

Office Hours: on line by appointment

20th Century, 21st Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, British, D.H. Lawrence, English, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Katherine Mansfield, Literature, Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Women Writers

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Monika Kaup

Professor

mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989 / PDL B-433

Office Hours: Winter 2024: Wed 3:30 - 4:30 pm (remote), and by appointment

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Baroque and Neobaroque, Critical Theory, Culture, Latino/a Studies, Literature, Modernism, Transamerican

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Richard Kenney

Professor
Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing

rk@uw.edu / 360 379 1446 / PDL B-437

Office Hours: Tuesdays, noon to one, and by appointment. In Rome SQ

Poetry and Poetics

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Stephanie Kerschbaum

Professor
Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

kersch@uw.edu / Padelford A-11F

Office Hours: SP24: MW 1-2 p.m. and by appointment

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

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Jeffrey Todd Knight

Associate Professor

jtknight@uw.edu / PDL A-417

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

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Charles LaPorte

Professor

laporte@uw.edu / 206-543-7881 / PDL A-508

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

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Colette Moore

Associate Professor

cvmoore@uw.edu / 206-543-2182 / PDL B-421

Office Hours: MW 4:30-5 in Padelford; T 1-2 on Zoom (email me for the zoom link)

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

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Suhanthie Motha

Associate Professor

smotha@uw.edu / smotha@uw.edu / PDL A-413

Office Hours: By appointment

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

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Leila Kate Norako

Assistant Professor

lknorako@uw.edu / PDL A-309

British, Digital Humanities, Ecocriticism, English, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies

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Rae Paris

Associate Professor

parisr@uw.edu / (206) 543-2274 / PDL B436

Office Hours: By appointment

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Anna Preus

Assistant Professor

apreus@uw.edu / PDL B-426

Office Hours: Tue: 1-2 [virtual: email for link] or by appointment

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

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Candice Rai

Associate Professor

crai@uw.edu / 206-543-0758 / PDL A-401

Office Hours: On Leave. Email for an appointment.

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

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Brian Reed

Professor
Divisional Dean of Humanities
Milliman Endowed Chair in the Humanities

bmreed@uw.edu / (206) 685-9969 / CMU 50

Office Hours: By appointment

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

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Paul Remley

Professor

remley@uw.edu / 206-543-6357 / PDL A-412

Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:30 & By Appointment

Literature, Old English

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Janelle Rodriques

Assistant Professor

jar0118@uw.edu / PDL B-405

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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

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Priti Sandhu

Associate Professor

sandhu28@uw.edu / 206-543-4233 / PDL B-425

Office Hours: By appointment

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

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Juliet Shields

Professor

js37@uw.edu / 206-543-2636 / PDL A501

Office Hours: M&W 1:15-2:15 or by appointment

18th Century, 19th Century, Diaspora Studies, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Romanticism, Transnational, Women Writers

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Maya Sonenberg

Professor

mayas@uw.edu / 206-543-4264 / Padelford B-431

Office Hours: M 12-1, W 3-4 and by appointment

20th Century, 21st Century, Creative Writing, Literature, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Women Writers

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Henry Staten

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hstaten@uw.edu / 206-779-1098 / PDL B-409

Office Hours: M-W 10-11

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

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William Streitberger

Professor

streitwr@uw.edu / 206-685-9893 / PDL A-510

Office Hours: TuTh 11:30

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

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Jesse Oak Taylor

Associate Professor

jot8@uw.edu / PDL A-408

Office Hours: MW 1-2

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

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Pimone Triplett

Professor

ptrip@uw.edu / PDL A-416

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

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

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Josephine Walwema

Associate Teaching Professor

walwema@uw.edu / PDL A-G11

Office Hours: MW 9:30 -10:30

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

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John Webster

Associate Professor

cicero@uw.edu / 206-784-3504 / PDL A-407

16th Century, 17th Century, 19th Century, Drama, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Renaissance, Rhetoric and Composition, Romanticism

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Alys Eve Weinbaum

Professor

alysw@uw.edu / PDL B-408

Office Hours: By appointment; drop in T/Th 2:30-3

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

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Shawn Wong

Professor
Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

homebase@uw.edu / 206-616-0941 / PDL B-423

Office Hours: T & Th 11-12 and by appointment on zoom M-F

Asian American, Creative Writing

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Kathleen Woodward

Professor
Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

kw1@uw.edu / 206-543-3920 / COMM 206

Office Hours: BY Appt

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

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