People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Erin Gilbert

Part-time Lecturer

Office Hours: T 1:30-2:30 & W 11:00-12:00

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

Professor

mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989

Office Hours: spring 2026: by appointment only

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

Jeffrey Todd Knight

Associate Professor

jtknight@uw.edu

Office Hours: F 11:30-1:30

PDL A-417

16th Century, 17th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies

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

Norman Wacker

Associate Teaching Professor

nwacker@uw.edu / 206-685-3804

Office Hours: W 10:30 - 12:30 and by appointment

PDL A-14

Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Writing, Political Economy, Translation and Interpretation

Emeriti Faculty

Raimonda Modiano

Professor Emerita

Coleridge, Comparative Literature, Textual Studies