People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Eva Cherniavsky

Professor
Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture
Director of Graduate Studies

Office Hours: Weds 2:00-3:30 and by appt. NB: While my Weds OH are genreally in person, they will be remote/via Zoom on 1/29 and 2/5. Please email me if you'd like to meet at one of those times.

PDL A-103

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, Postcolonial, Television

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Teaching Professor
Director, Computer-Integrated Courses

kgb@uw.edu / 206-543-4892

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:30, 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

John Griffith

Associate Professor Emeritus

jgriff@uw.edu

American, Bible Studies, Literature

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

Monika Kaup

Professor

mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989

Office Hours: spring 2025: by appointment

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

Office Hours: TuTh 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

Amanda M. McCourt

Part-time Lecturer

amccourt@uw.edu

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

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

D.E. Roberts

Part-time Lecturer

derob@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Criminalization, Critical Race Theory, Disability, Film/Cinema, Gender, Medicalization, Monstrosity, Popular Culture, Psychology, Queer Studies, Transgender Studies

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

Deane Wilson

Part-time Lecturer

dgwilson@uw.edu

Office Hours: Th 12-2pm

PDL 402B

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

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

Robert Abrams

Professor Emeritus

rabrams@uw.edu / 206-765-0547

Office Hours: M&W: 3:25-4:25, By appointment

PDL B-406

American, Culture, Literature, Philosophy, Space/Place, Visual Culture

Linda Bierds

Professor Emerita

lbierds@uw.edu / 206-543-9623

PDL B-406

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

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

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