People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Field of Interest

Robert Abrams

Professor

rabrams@uw.edu / 206-765-0547 / PDL B-427

Office Hours: T, TH, 2:20-3:20, by appointment please: rabrams@uw.edu

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

Lubna Alzaroo

Part-time Lecturer

lubnaa@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 pm by appointment

19th Century, American, Ecocriticism, Environment, Indigenous, Necropolitics, Postcolonial, Settler Colonialism

Claire E. Barwise

Part-time Lecturer

cbarwise@uw.edu

19th Century, 20th Century, American, Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Literature, Modernism, Sexuality, Women Writers

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: On Leave

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: Thurs 8-10 am PST.

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

Megan Callow

Associate Teaching Professor
Director, Interdisciplinary Writing Program

mcallow@uw.edu / PDL A11-E

Office Hours: Winter 2021: By appointment - please email.

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

Office Hours: Weekly Thurs 2-4 and by appointment. Please email me to set a time and receive a link.

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 / 206-543-6045 / PDL B-401

Office Hours: Mondays 3.30-5.30pm, Zoom (please advance email to schedule a slot)

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

Catherine Cole

Professor

colecat@uw.edu / 206-543-7045 / Communications Building 050, Deans Office

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

David Crouse

Associate Professor

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

Office Hours: Wed. 12:00 - 1:30 or by appointment. Contact me.

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

James (Rush) Daniel

Assistant Teaching Professor

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

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:00-11:00

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

Laura M. De Vos

Part-time Lecturer

lmdevos@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, African American, American, American Indian/Native American, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Indigenous, Literature

Sarah Faulkner

Part-time Lecturer

sef08@uw.edu / Virtual

Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30-4:30 and by Appt.

18th Century, 19th Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, British, Digital Humanities, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Romanticism, Textual Studies, Women Writers

Andrew Feld

Associate Professor
Editor, Seattle Review

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

Poetry and Poetics

Tom Foster

Professor

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

Office Hours: No in-person hours this quarter. Email me at tfoster@uw.edu to set up a Zoom appointment.

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

E. Laurie George

Teaching Professor

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

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

Emily George

Part-time Lecturer

ecg136@uw.edu

16th Century, 17th Century, Drama, Education, English, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies, Theater History, Writing Pedagogy

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Teaching Professor
Director, Computer-Integrated Courses

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

Office Hours: M, 1:30-2:30 p.m. via Zoom, and by appt. Contact instructor for Zoom link

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

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu / PDL A-306

Office Hours: By appointment

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

Matthew K. Hitchman

Part-time Lecturer

hitchmk@uw.edu / PDL B5J

Office Hours: Tuesdays from 3:30 - 4:30 & Wednesdays from 2:30 - 3:30 PMI: 641 211 3552

19th Century, American, Culture, Genre Theory, Maritime Literature, Sentimental Novel, Transatlantic

Habiba Ibrahim

Associate Professor

hibrahim@uw.edu / PDL A-304

Office Hours: Wed. 3-4PM | by appointment.

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, African American, Age, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Literary Criticism, Literature

Douglas Ishii

Assistant Professor

dsishii@uw.edu / Remote

Office Hours: W 3:30-4:30, and by appointment

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

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

Office Hours: Winter 2021: T Th 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. and by appointment (remote)

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

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

David Kumler

Part-time Lecturer

kumler@uw.edu / PDL B5-A

Office Hours: By appointment

20th Century, 21st Century, Afro-Pessimism, American, Horror, Political Science, Popular Culture, Racial Capitalism, The Human, Weird Fiction

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

Associate Teaching Professor

hjl3@uw.edu / PDL A-019

Office Hours: T TH 4-5pm

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

Michelle Liu

Associate Director of Writing Programs
Associate Teaching Professor

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

Office Hours: Th 11:30-12:30 and by appointment

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

Carrie Matthews

Associate Teaching Professor

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

Office Hours: Winter 2021: Thursdays, 12 noon-2 p.m., and by appointment

Collaborative Teaching, Interdisciplinary Writing, Modernism, Pedagogy, Transatlantic

Alexander McCauley

Part-time Lecturer

apmccau@uw.edu

Office Hours: W TH 3:50 - 4:50

19th Century, Atlantis, Ecocriticism, Population

Frances McCue

Teaching Professor

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

Office Hours: ZOOM on Mondays noon-1pm, except MLK Day and Presidents Day: Join URL: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94825273088

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

Dylan Medina

Acting Assistant Professor

medinad@uw.edu

Colette Moore

Associate Professor

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

Office Hours: MW 2:15-3:15 (contact for Zoom "office")

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

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

Office Hours: MW 11:30-12:30 and by appointment

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

Nikolai Popov

Senior Lecturer, Retired

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

Office Hours: TH 10:30-11:30 and by Appointment, Email crai@uw.edu

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 / Virtual Office Hours via Canvas

Office Hours: Thurs. 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

Office Hours: By appointment via Zoom

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

Office Hours: By appointment on zoom. Email to make an appointment.

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

Maya Sonenberg

Professor

mayas@uw.edu / please email / B-431

Office Hours: Thursday 9:30-11:30 pm & by appt. Email me for a Zoom link.

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

Teaching Professor
Joint Appointment with Comparative History of Ideas (CHID)

anu@uw.edu / virtual office hours

Office Hours: Jan 6th, 12:00-1:15pm; Jan 14th, 12:00-1:30pm; Jan 21st, 1:00-2:30pm; Jan 27th, 1-2:30pm; Feb 3, Feb 10, Feb 17th, 1-2:30pm; Feb 24th, 10:30am-noon; March 3, March 10, 1-2:30pm

21st Century, Diaspora Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global Studies, Literature, Pedagogy, Postcolonial, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational

Jesse Oak Taylor

Associate Professor
Director, Undergraduate Programs

jot8@uw.edu / 206-616-0563 / PDL A-405

Office Hours: By Appointment

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

Sumyat Thu

Acting Assistant Professor

smthu@uw.edu / Padelford B-26

Critical Race Theory, Expository Writing, Global English, Multilingualism, Public Scholarship, Rhetoric and Composition, Transnational, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy

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

Norman Wacker

Associate Teaching Professor

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

Office Hours: Monday 1-2 p.m., Tuesday 10:30 - 11:30

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

Josephine Walwema

Assistant Teaching Professor

walwema@uw.edu / PDL A18

Office Hours: MW 2-4; TH 9-11

John Webster

Associate Professor
Director of Writing, College of Arts & Sciences

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

Office Hours: Tue 2-4 and by appt

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

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Professor

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

Office Hours: Office hours are by appointment only on T/Th after 3, and Friday. Please contact me via email to set something up.

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

Alan Williams

Part-time Lecturer

alanw84@uw.edu / Remote

Office Hours: TH 12:30-2:30pm, by appointment

20th Century, 21st Century, Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Japanese, Queer Studies, Transnational, Transpacific, Visual Culture

Shawn Wong

Professor

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

Office Hours: Office hours, by appointment only (via Zoom)

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

Emeritus Faculty

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

Richard Dunn

Professor Emeritus

dickd@uw.edu

19th Century, British, Literature, Victorian Fiction

Language, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Rhetoric and Composition

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

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

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
Mackey, Daphne	Department Affiliate	dmackey@uw.edu 206-543-6242	UW TOWER
Heuving, Jeanne	Adjunct Professor	jheuving@u.washington.edu 425 352-5354	UW Bothell Campus, UW1-Room 348
Teuton, Christopher	American Indian Studies	teuton@uw.edu 206 543-9082	PDL C-514
Brown, Marshall	Department Affiliate, Editor, Modern Language Quarterly, Professor of Comparative Literature	mbrown@uw.edu 206-543-1488	PDL B-405
Henry, Barbara	Adjunct, Slavic Languages	bjhenry@uw.edu 206-543-6009	PDL A211
Gray, Richard	Adjunct	woyzeck@uw.edu 206-543-1752	CDH 714
Groves, Jason	Department Affiliate, Germanics	206-221-2566	CDH 710
Handwerk, Gary	Professor	handwerk@uw.edu 206-543-2183	A402
Buckroyd, Peter	Study Abroad Program Faculty
Chaney, Chris	Affilliate Assistan Professor	cchaney@spu.edu
Roraback, Erik	Affiliate Associate Professor	erikr9@uw.edu