People - Graduate Program Faculty | Department of English

Chadwick Allen

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

Office Hours: By Appt

GRB 340

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: MW 10:00-11:00

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

David Bosworth

Professor

davidbos@uw.edu / 206-543-2682

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

PDL B-407

Creative Writing

Nancy Bou Ayash

Associate Professor

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: W 9-11

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: Weds 2:00-3:30 and by appt

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: T/Th 3-4 pm (office), or by email appt

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: TH 12:30 - 1:30 and by appointment

PDL A-419

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 & B-025 Creative Writing Director's Office

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

Andrew Feld

Associate Professor
Editor, Seattle Review

aefeld@uw.edu / 206-543-9865

Office Hours: M&W 12-1

PDL B-432

Poetry and Poetics

Tom Foster

Professor

tfoster@uw.edu / 206-543-8635

Office Hours: Thursdays 3-5, in-person in my office, and by appointment, either in person or over Zoom; email for appointments.

PDL B-424

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

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu

Office Hours: M/W 10:30 - 11:30 AM 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

Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Chair

hibrahim@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL A-101

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

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 2025: Tue 1-2 pm (remote)

PDL B-433

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Apocalyptic Literature, Baroque and Neobaroque, Chicana/o, Critical Theory, Latino/a Studies, Literature, Modernism, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Transamerican

Stephanie Kerschbaum

Professor
Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

kersch@uw.edu

Office Hours: WI25: T 12-1 p.m., W 1-2 p.m., 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

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: M 11-12; MW 2:30-3; 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: Mondays, 2:00-4:00PM, contact me for location

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

PDL A-309

British, Digital Humanities, Ecocriticism, English, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, 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: Monday 9:30-10:30 and Thursday 2-3 on Zoom (email for link)

PDL B-426

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

Jonathan Radocay

Assistant Professor

jradocay@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 3:00-4:00 (in-person); TH 3:00-4:00 (virtual); and by appointment

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: Tues - 1:30-230pm in Office, Thurs. - 4-5pm via Zoom, or Email for an appointment.

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 12-3pm

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

PDL A-412

Literature, Old English

Janelle Rodriques

Associate Professor

jar0118@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW =, 11:00-12:00 via Zoom. Appointment only.

PDL B-405

Caribbean

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: Tues: 3:00-4:00; Thurs: 10:30-11:30; and by appointment

Padelford B-431

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

Henry Staten

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hstaten@uw.edu / 206-779-1098

Office Hours: t-th 10-11am

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 / 206-685-9893

Office Hours: TuTh 10:20--11:20

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: TTH 12-1

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

Associate 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

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

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 Race Theory, 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 by appointment only (not teaching classes Winter Quarter 2025)

PDL B-423

Asian American, Creative Writing

Kathleen Woodward

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

kw1@uw.edu / 206-543-3920

Office Hours: BY Appt

COMM 206

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