People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: W 8-10 am and 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 1:30-3:00 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: Th, 10.45-11.45am or by email appointment

PDL B-401

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

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Francesca Colonnese

Part-time Lecturer

fcolonne@uw.edu

Office Hours: W, 2:30-4:30 or by appointment

A-312

19th Century, Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Science and Technology, Temporality, Textual Studies

Erin Gilbert

Part-time Lecturer

eringil@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays 11:30-1:30 and by appointment

Padelford (LL) B 28

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Ecocriticism, Latin American, Novel/Prose Fiction, Russian Studies, Translation and Interpretation, Visual Culture

Matthew K. Hitchman

Acting Assistant Professor

hitchmk@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 10:30 - 11:30 & W 8:30 - 9:30

PDL A-308

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

Charles LaPorte

Professor

laporte@uw.edu / 206-543-7881

PDL A-508

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

Matthew Poland

Part-time Lecturer

mjpoland@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 12:30-1:30

PDL B-36

19th Century, Archives, British, Critical Theory, Global Anglophone, Irish Literature, Literary Criticism, Periodicals Studies, Settler Colonialism, Textual Studies, Transnational

Jonathan Radocay

Assistant Professor

jradocay@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B-403

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

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

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

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

Emeriti Faculty

Kathleen Blake

Professor Emerita

kblake@uw.edu

19th Century, British, Culture, Literature

Joseph Butwin

Associate Professor Emeritus

joeyb@uw.edu

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

Richard Dunn

Professor Emeritus

dickd@uw.edu

19th Century, British, Literature, Victorian Fiction

John Webster

Associate Professor Emeritus

cicero@uw.edu / 206-784-3504

PDL A-407

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

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Brown, Marshall	Department Affiliate, Editor, Modern Language Quarterly, Professor of Comparative Literature	mbrown@uw.edu 206-543-1488
Handwerk, Gary	Professor	handwerk@uw.edu 206-543-2183