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: 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

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

Matthew Poland

Part-time Lecturer

mjpoland@uw.edu

Office Hours: Not teaching at UW in Winter 2026 -- email to meet

PDL B-36

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

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

William Streitberger

Professor

streitwr@uw.edu / 206-9281069

Office Hours: Tu Th 11:30

PDL A-510

16th Century, 17th Century, British, Drama, History, Literature, Shakespeare, Textual Theory and Practice, World Drama

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

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

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

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
Lockwood, Thomas	Professor Emeritus