People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Department Chair
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hibrahim@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL A-101

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

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30; W 8-9 am & 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 2:30-4:00 PM and by appointment

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: email appointment (not teaching or advising this quarter)

PDL B-401

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

Erin Gilbert

Part-time Lecturer

eringil@uw.edu

Office Hours: W 1:30-2:30 TH 10:00-11:00 (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

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Teaching Professor
Director, Computer-Integrated Courses

kgb@uw.edu / 206-543-4892

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., in office and via Zoom; also by appointment

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

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu

Office Hours: M/W 1:00 - 2:00 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

Jianfeng He

Part-time Lecturer

jfhe@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, African American, Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction

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 2026: on leave

PDL B-433

20th Century, 21st Century, Apocalyptic Literature, Baroque and Neobaroque, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Criticism, Literature, Modernism, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Transamerican

Michelle Liu

Faculty Mentor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Teaching Professor

msmliu@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:20 pm and by appointment

PDL A-420

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

Frances McCue

Teaching Professor

mccuef@uw.edu / 206-931-3779

Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00

Padelford B434

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

Anna Preus

Assistant Professor

apreus@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter '26: Tuesday 9-10 on Zoom (email for link); Thursday, 2:15-3:15 in person

PDL B-426

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

Jonathan Radocay

Assistant Professor

jradocay@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 4:00-5:00 PM (in-person); T 3:00-4:00 PM (virtual)

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

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

Janelle Rodriques

Associate Professor

jar0118@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW, 14:00-16:00 via Zoom, by appointment.

PDL B-405

20th Century, 21st Century, Black Atlantic, Black Futurity, Caribbean, Critiquing the Human, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Literary Tricksters, Postcolonial, Transatlantic

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

Deane Wilson

Part-time Lecturer

dgwilson@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 10am-12pm

402 Padelford Hall

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Creative Writing, Ecocriticism, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place

Kathleen Woodward

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

kw1@uw.edu

Office Hours: BY Appt

PDL 403

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

Emeriti Faculty

Linda Bierds

Professor Emerita

lbierds@uw.edu / 206-543-9623

PDL B-406

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

Katherine Cummings

Associate Professor
Emerita

ckate@uw.edu

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

Sydney Kaplan

Professor Emerita

sydneyk@uw.edu / 206-685-1538

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

Henry Laufenberg

Associate Teaching Professor, Retired

hjl3@uw.edu

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

Mark Patterson

Associate Professor Emeritus

mpat@uw.edu

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

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Handwerk, Gary	Professor	handwerk@uw.edu 206-543-2183

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
Allen, Carolyn	Professor Emerita