People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Field of Interest

Robert Abrams

Professor

rabrams@uw.edu / 206-543-4076 / PDL B-427

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

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

Meagan Arthur

Part-time Lecturer

arthumea@uw.edu / 206-543-7883 / PDL B-404

Creative Writing, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory

Tyler Babbie

Part-time Lecturer

babbie@uw.edu / 206-543-6282 / PDL B-415

Anis Bawarshi

Professor
Chair

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

Linda Bierds

Professor
Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing

lbierds@uw.edu / 206-543-9623 / PDL B-403

Office Hours: Online only. Please email me for an appointment.

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

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

Nancy Bou Ayash

Associate Professor

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

Office Hours: By appointment

Global English, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Rhetoric and Composition, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

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

Office Hours: by appointment: email me and we will connect.

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, American, Art History, British, Fashion, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Popular Culture

Megan Callow

Senior Lecturer
Director, Interdisciplinary Writing Program

mcallow@uw.edu / PDL A11-E

Communication, Education, Expository Writing, Faculty Development for Writing Instruction, Genre Theory, Interdisciplinary Writing, Online Learning, Rhetoric and Composition, Science and Technology, Writing in the Sciences, Writing Pedagogy

Eva Cherniavsky

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

ec22@uw.edu / 206-543-6077 / PDL A-103

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

Laura Chrisman

Professor

lhc3@uw.edu / 206-543-6045 / PDL B-401

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

Stephanie Clare

Assistant Professor

sclare@uw.edu / PDL A-419

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

David Crouse

Associate Professor

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

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

James (Rush) Daniel

Lecturer

daniej9@uw.edu / 206-616-2349 / PDL A-016

Critical Theory, Interdisciplinary Writing, Philosophy, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Pedagogy

Sumayyah Daud

Part-time Lecturer

dauds@uw.edu

18th Century, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Race Theory, Ecocriticism, Literature, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place, Translation and Interpretation

Andrew Feld

Associate Professor
Editor, Seattle Review

aefeld@uw.edu / 206-543-7899 / PDL B-432

Office Hours: Summer-B, MW, 2-3pm

Poetry and Poetics

Tom Foster

Professor

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

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

E. Laurie George

Principal Lecturer

elgeorge@uw.edu / 206-543-3832 / PDL B-406

20th Century, 21st Century, American, British, Communication, Digital Literacy, Literature, Visual Culture

Brad Gerhardt

Part-time Lecturer

bgard4@uw.edu / 206-543-2707

20th Century, American, British, Comparative Literature, French, Gender, Genealogy, German, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Sexuality

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Principal Lecturer
Director, Computer-Integrated Courses

kgb@uw.edu / 206-543-4892 / PDL A-305

20th Century, American, Comics, Film/Cinema, Gender, Literature, Multimodal Composition, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity, Teaching with Technology, Women Writers, Writing in the Disciplines

John Griffith

Associate Professor

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

Office Hours: By appointment

American, Bible Studies, Literature

C. R. Grimmer

Part-time lecturer

cgrimmer@uw.edu / PDL B-417

Office Hours: By appointment: cgrimmer@uw.edu

21st Century, Creative Writing, Critical Race Theory, Digital Humanities, Disability, Ecocriticism, Multimodal and Public Writing and Arts Pedagogy and Praxis, Poetry and Poetics, Popular Culture, Queer Studies

Juan Guerra

Professor
Chair, Department of American Ethnic Studies

jguerra@uw.edu / 206-685-6739 / PDL B-506

Office Hours: By Appt

Language, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Rhetoric and Composition

Gillian Harkins

Associate Professor

gharkins@uw.edu / PDL A-306

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Culture, Literature

Sam Hushagen

Part-time Lecturer

samhus85@uw.edu / A-504

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Aesthetics, History and Philosophy of Science, Intellectual History, John Milton, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics

Habiba Ibrahim

Associate Professor

hibrahim@uw.edu / PDL A-304

Office Hours: By appointment.

20th Century, African American, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literature

Sydney Kaplan

Professor

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

Monika Kaup

Professor

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

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

Ainsley Kelly

Part-time Lecturer

aekelly2@uw.edu / PAD A-401

American, Ecocriticism, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial, Postmodern, Queer Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Romanticism

Richard Kenney

Professor
Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing

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

Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics

Jeffrey Todd Knight

Associate Professor

jtknight@uw.edu / 206-543-2286 / PDL A-417

History of the Book, Literature, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies

Charles LaPorte

Associate Professor

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

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

Henry Laufenberg

Senior Lecturer

hjl3@uw.edu / 206-685-4750 / PDL A-019

20th Century, American, Early Entry Student Education, Modernism, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing for Neuroscience, Writing in the Social Sciences

Christopher Laws

Senior Lecturer

laws@astro.washington.edu / 206-221-7949 / PABB 349

Michelle Liu

Associate Director of Writing Programs
Senior Lecturer

msmliu@uw.edu / 206-543-1778 / PDL A-420

20th Century, American, Asian American, Culture, Expository Writing, Film/Cinema, Gender, Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Writing Pedagogy

Jennifer Malone

Part-time Lecturer

jenanne@uw.edu / PDL A-18

20th Century, Art History, Critical Theory, Culture, Interdisciplinary Writing, Literature, Modernism, Postmodern, Transatlantic, Visual Culture

Carrie Matthews

Senior Lecturer

crmatthe@uw.edu / 206-351-0214 / PDL A-20

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:30-4:30, and by appointment

Collaborative Teaching, Interdisciplinary Writing, Modernism, Pedagogy, Transatlantic

Frances McCue

Senior Lecturer

mccuef@uw.edu / 206-931-3779 / Padelford B434

20th Century, Aesthetics, Education, Interdisciplinary Writing, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics, Public Scholarship, Writing Pedagogy

Colette Moore

Associate Professor

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

Office Hours: by appointment

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

Paul Morton

Part-time Lecturer

pwm5@uw.edu / PDL A-503

Office Hours: By appointment

Animation, Comics, Film/Cinema, Global Studies

Suhanthie Motha

Associate Professor

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

Office Hours: On Leave

Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity

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

Rae Paris

Assistant Professor

parisr@uw.edu / (206) 543-2274 / 436B

Office Hours: By appointment

Mark Patterson

Associate Professor
Curriculum Coordinator, Scheduling

mpat@uw.edu / 206-305-8477 / PDL A-403

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Critical Theory, Literary History, Literature, Pedagogy, Politics

Nicole Peters

Part-time Lecturer

petersnc@uw.edu / PDL B-428

18th Century, 19th Century, 21st Century, Digital Humanities, Intellectual History, Textual Studies

Nikolai Popov

Senior Lecturer

popov@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics

Candice Rai

Associate Professor
Director, Expository Writing

crai@uw.edu / 206-543-0758 / PDL A-011F

Affect, Engaged Scholarship, Ethnography, Expository Writing, Material Rhetorics, Public Scholarship, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Service Learning, Space/Place, Urban Studies, Writing Pedagogy

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

Paul Remley

Professor

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

Office Hours: Wed. 2:30 to 4:30 and by appointment (remley@uw.edu)

Literature, Old English

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

David Shields

Professor
Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

dshields@davidshields.com / 206-543-2247 / PDL A414

Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Book-length essay, Boundary-jumping work, Documentary film, Literary/Photographic/Cinematic collage, Nonfiction Prose, Personal essay, Postmodern

Juliet Shields

Professor

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

18th Century, 19th Century, American, British, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Romanticism, Transnational, Women Writers

Samantha Simon

Part-time Lecturer

simons6@uw.edu / PDL A-308

19th Century, 20th Century, African American, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity

Maya Sonenberg

Professor

mayas@uw.edu / please email / 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 / 206-685-4965 / 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 / PDL A-510

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

Gail Stygall

Professor

stygall@uw.edu / 206-685-2384 / PDL A-311

Discourse Analysis, Environment, Forensic Linguistics, Language, Language Policy, Law, Legal Discourse, Linguistics, Nonfiction Prose, Rhetoric and Composition, Sociolinguistics, Writing Pedagogy

Anu Taranath

Principle Lecturer

anu@uw.edu / PDL A-506

Office Hours: On Leave

21st Century, Diaspora Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global Studies, Literature, Pedagogy, Postcolonial, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational, World and Multi-ethnic Literatures

Jesse Oak Taylor

Associate Professor
Director, Undergraduate Programs

jot8@uw.edu / 206-616-0563 / PDL A-002A

Office Hours: By Appointment

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

Pimone Triplett

Professor

ptrip@uw.edu / 206-618-2163 / 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

Milan Vidakovic

Part-time Lecturer

milan@uw.edu / PDL A-505

Norman Wacker

Senior Lecturer

nwacker@uw.edu / 206-685-3805 / PDL A-14

Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Writing, Political Economy, Translation and Interpretation

John Webster

Associate Professor
Director of Writing, College of Arts & Sciences

cicero@uw.edu / 206-543-6203 / PDL A-407

16th Century, Expository Writing, Language, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition, Shakespeare, Writing Pedagogy

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Professor

alysw@uw.edu / 206-543-7797 / PDL B-408

19th Century, 20th Century, African American, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Transatlantic, Transnational

James Benson Wirth

Part-time Lecturer

jbwirth@uw.edu / PDL B-410

20th Century, 21st Century, African American, American, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Gender, Literary Criticism, Political Science, Popular Culture

Shawn Wong

Professor

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

Office Hours: Office hours, by appointment only.

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 / COMM 206

Office Hours: BY Appt

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

Ryan Youell

Part-time Lecturer

rayouell@uw.edu / 206-543-2017 / PDL B-426

Emeritus Faculty

Edward Alexander

Professor Emeritus

eaengl@uw.edu / 206-543-2372 / PDL A-410

19th Century, Literature, Romantic Literature, Romanticism, Victorian Literature

Carolyn Allen

Professor Emerita

callen@uw.edu / 206-543-7883 / PDL A-408

Office Hours: By Appointment

20th Century, 21st Century, Affect, Culture, Gender, Literature, Sexuality, Women Writers

Kathleen Blake

Professor Emerita

kblake@uw.edu

19th Century, British, Culture, Literature

Joseph Butwin

Associate Professor Emeritus

joeyb@uw.edu / 206-543-2173 / PDL A-419

19th Century, 19th Century British and Continental Literature; Jewish-American Literature and Culture, Art History, British, English, History, Jewish Studies, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Shakespeare

Katherine Cummings

Associate Professor
Emerita

ckate@uw.edu / 206-543-6356

20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Gender, Ideology, Nationalism, Queer Studies, Science and Technology, Sexuality

George Dillon

Professor Emeritus

dillon@uw.edu

Corpus Based Analysis of Academic Disciplines and Other Registers, Language, Literacy, Writing Electronic Text, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Systems

Richard Dunn

Professor Emeritus

dickd@uw.edu

19th Century, British, Literature, Victorian Fiction

Charles Frey

Professor Emeritus

cfrey@uw.edu

Joan Graham

Principal Lecturer Emerita

jbgraham@uw.edu

Malcolm Griffith

Assistant Professor Emeritus

Malcolmg@uw.edu

Charles Johnson

Professor Emeritus

chasjohn@uw.edu

Novel/Prose Fiction

Eric LaGuardia

Associate Professor Emeritus

ehl@uw.edu

Renaissance, Spenser

Thomas Lockwood

Professor Emeritus

tlock@uw.edu

18th Century, British, Literature, Restoration

Christopher Longyear

Associate Professor Emeritus

longyear@uw.edu

William Matchett

Professor Emeritus

David McCracken

Professor Emeritus

davidmcc@uw.edu

Bible Studies, Romanticism

Colleen McElroy

Professor Emerita

dragnldy@uw.edu

Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Women Writers

Heather McHugh

Professor Emerita

nomenclatter@gmail.com

Art, Creative Writing, Film/Cinema, Graphic Design, Photography, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition, The Art of Reading and the Writing of Poetry

Robert McNamara

Principal Lecturer Emeritus

rmcnamar@uw.edu

Academic Writing, Interdisciplinary Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Writing Pedagogy

Raimonda Modiano

Professor Emerita

modiano@uw.edu

Coleridge, Comparative Literature, Textual Studies

Sally Mussetter

Associate Professor Emerita

mussette@uw.edu

John O'Neill

Senior Lecturer, Retired

joneill@uw.edu / 206-543-2706

20th and 21st century atlantic and transnational fiction, Writing in the Disciplines

Dolores Palomo

Associate Professor Emerita

palomo@uw.edu

Leroy Searle

Professor Emeritus

lsearle@uw.edu / 206-409-8878 / A410

American, History and Philosophy of Science, Literary Criticism, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism, Science and Technology

Sandra Silberstein

Professor
Emerita

tq@uw.edu

Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Gender, Language, Race and Ethnicity, Second Language Acquisition

Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill

Principal Lecturer Emerita

esoneill@uw.edu

collaborative learning, Community-engaged learning, Education, Expository Writing, Interdisciplinary Writing, student retention, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy

Eugene Smith

Associate Professor Emeritus

Robert Stanton

Associate Professor Emeritus

rstanton@uw.edu

James Tollefson

Professor Emeritus

tollefso@uw.edu / 206-543-2372 / PDL A-410

Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy

Sara Van Den Berg

Associate Professor Emerita

Miceal Vaughan

Professor Emeritus

miceal@uw.edu / 206-543-2372 / PDL A-410

Office Hours: by appointment

Anglo-Irish, Anglo-Irish Literature, Bible Studies, Chaucer, Drama, English, Manuscript Studies, Medieval, Middle English, Piers Plowman, Textual Studies, the Bible as Literature

David Wagoner

Professor Emeritus

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

Name	Title	Email / Phone	Office
Groves, Jason	Department Affiliate, Germanics	206-221-2566	CDH 710
Buckroyd, Peter	Study Abroad Program Faculty
Henry, Barbara	Adjunct, Slavic Languages	bjhenry@uw.edu 206-543-6009	PDL A211
Chaney, Chris	Affilliate Assistan Professor	cchaney@spu.edu
Mackey, Daphne	Department Affiliate	dmackey@uw.edu 206-543-6242	UW TOWER
Handwerk, Gary	Professor	handwerk@uw.edu 206-543-2183	A402
Heuving, Jeanne	Adjunct Professor	jheuving@u.washington.edu 425 352-5354	UW Bothell Campus, UW1-Room 348
Brown, Marshall	Department Affiliate, Editor, Modern Language Quarterly, Professor of Comparative Literature	mbrown@uw.edu 206-543-1488	PDL B-405
Teuton, Christopher	American Indian Studies	teuton@uw.edu 206 543-9082	PDL C-514
Gray, Richard	Adjunct	woyzeck@uw.edu 206-543-1752	CDH 714