People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

JohnMorgan Baker

Part-time Lecturer

19th Century, 20th Century, Archives, Disability, Histories of Sexology, Modernism, Nationalism, Science Fiction, Transgender Studies

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: W 8-10

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 1-3 and by appt

PDL A-105

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: 1-2 pm (office), or by appt

PDL B-401

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

Alycia Gilbert

Full-time Lecturer

amgilb@uw.edu

Office Hours: MTW 11:00 - 12:00, Th 2:30-3:30; and by appointment

PDL A-403

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Adaptation Studies, Drama, Film/Cinema, Gender, Literature, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Postcolonial

Erin Gilbert

Full-time Lecturer

eringil@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-12:30 and by appointment

Padelford (LL) B 28

20th Century, Comparative Literature, Decolonial, Ecocriticism, Latin American, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Russian Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Teaching Professor
Director, Computer-Integrated Courses

kgb@uw.edu / 206-543-4892

Office Hours: Fridays, 4-6 p.m. via Zoom; Term A only

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 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: T & Th | 10:00 - 11:00AM & by appointment

PDL A-304

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: on leave (fall 2024)

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

Michelle Liu

Faculty Mentor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Teaching Professor

msmliu@uw.edu / 2063879697

Office Hours: TuTh 3:30 pm-4:20 pm and by appointment

PDL A-420

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

Amanda M. McCourt

Part-time Lecturer

amccourt@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Cognitive Science, Critical Theory, Postmodern, Science Fiction

Frances McCue

Teaching Professor

mccuef@uw.edu / 206-931-3779

Office Hours: On Leave from Teaching 2024-2025 Academic Year

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: By appointment

PDL B-426

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

Jonathan Radocay

Assistant Professor

jradocay@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 11:30-12:30 (in-person); W 3:30-4:30 (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

Alex Ramos

Assistant Professor

anramos@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30-5:30pm

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

Nancy Sisko

Undergraduate Program Coordinator, English
Lecturer

nsisko@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30-2:30, Thursday 10:30-11:20 or by appointment

PDL A405

20th Century, Drama, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Shakespeare, Women Writers

Janine Sobers

Part-time Lecturer

jsobers@uw.edu

Office Hours:

PDL B-37

20th Century, American, Asian American, British, Comparative Literature, Global English, Latin American, Literature and Religion, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postsecular, Transnational

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: Not teaching. Office hours by appointment. Please email.

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: M 1:30-2:30; Tu 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: W 2-4pm (in person); Th 8:30-10:30am (virtual)

PDL 402B

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

James Benson Wirth

Technologist
Acting Assistant Professor

jbwirth@uw.edu

Office Hours: T/Th 1-2 PM

PDL A-303

20th Century, 21st Century, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Expository Writing, Gender, Literary Criticism, Online Learning, Popular Culture, Writing Pedagogy

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

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

PDL A-302

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