People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Erin Gilbert

Part-time Lecturer
eringil@uw.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:30-1:30 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
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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Jeffrey Todd Knight

Associate Professor
jtknight@uw.edu
PDL A-417
16th Century, 17th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies
Brian Reed

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
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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
Norman Wacker

Norman Wacker

Associate Teaching Professor
nwacker@uw.edu / 206-685-3804
Office Hours: Monday 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
PDL A-14
Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Writing, Political Economy, Translation and Interpretation

Emeriti Faculty

Raimonda Modiano

Raimonda Modiano

Professor Emerita
modiano@uw.edu
Coleridge, Comparative Literature, Textual Studies