People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Megan Butler

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
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Francesca Colonnese

Part-time Lecturer
fcolonne@uw.edu
Office Hours: W, 2:30-4:30 or by appointment
A-312
19th Century, Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Science and Technology, Temporality, Textual Studies
Monika Kaup

Monika Kaup

Professor
mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989
Office Hours: fall 2025: 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
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Jacob Pruett

Part-time Lecturer
pruettj@uw.edu
Cognitive Science, Modernism, Phenomenology, Postmodernism, Systems Theory