People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Department Chair
Byron W. and Alice L. 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

Megan Butler

Part-Time Lecturer

mbb67@uw.edu

Office Hours: Autumn 2025 Student Drop-in hours: Wednesdays, 2-4:00pm and with much virtual flexibility

PDL A302

21st Century, Cognitive Science, Ecocriticism, Environment, Global Health, Literature as Therapy, Political Science, Refugee Issues, Writing Pedagogy

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

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

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

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

Anu Taranath

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

anu@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

virtual office hours

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

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

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

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

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
Allen, Carolyn	Professor Emerita