People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Janet Barrow

Part-time Lecturer
jsb2024@uw.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30 pm
Padelford B25
21st Century, Creative Writing, Latin American, Literature, Multilingualism, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction
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Em Beckert

Part-time Lecturer
ebb15@uw.edu / 312-6187015
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00 -2:00pm
PDL B25
Creative Writing, Education, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Interdisciplinary Writing, Literacy, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies
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Olivia Bell

Part-time Lecturer
bello@uw.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 1-2PM & Thursdays 3-4PM
Padelford B25 (Creative writing suite)
Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Genealogy, History, Literature and Religion, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science Fiction, Women Writers
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David Nikki Crouse

Professor
dcrouse@uw.edu / 907-687-7755
Office Hours: T 1:30 - 300 PM
PDL B-430
Comics, Creative Writing, Experimental, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Novella, Queer Studies
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Yixuan Jiang

Part-time Lecturer
yixuanj@uw.edu
Office Hours: M/W 2:15-3:15 pm
PDL B5-E
18th Century, 19th Century, British, Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology
Maya Sonenberg

Maya Sonenberg

Professor
mayas@uw.edu / 206-543-4264. As I rarely check messages on this number, it's much better to email me.
Office Hours: I'm on sabbatical spring quarter 2026 but do read my email!
Padelford B-431
Creative Writing

Elena Steiert

Part-time Lecturer
esteiert@uw.edu
Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Translation and Interpretation
Pimone Triplett

Pimone Triplett

Professor
ptrip@uw.edu
Office Hours: by appointment (please just email to schedule)
PDL A-416
Asian American, Creative Writing, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literary Criticism, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity

Paramita Vadhahong

Part-time Lecturer
parahong@uw.edu
Padelford B-25
Archives, Asian American, Creative Writing, Digital Humanities, Multilingualism, Poetry and Poetics, Space/Place, Translation and Interpretation
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Deane Wilson

Part-time Lecturer
dgwilson@uw.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 10am-12pm
402 Padelford Hall
20th Century, 21st Century, American, Creative Writing, Ecocriticism, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place
Shawn Wong

Shawn Wong

Professor
Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities
homebase@uw.edu / 206-616-0941
Office Hours: M-F , 10-5:00, by appointment only (not teaching classes Winter Quarter 2026)
PDL B-423
Asian American, Creative Writing

Emeriti Faculty

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David Bosworth

Professor Emeritus
davidbos@uw.edu / 206-543-2682
Office Hours: Office Hours: email me to set up a phone appointment
PDL B-407
Creative Writing
Heather McHugh

Heather McHugh

Professor Emerita
nomenclatter@gmail.com
Art, Creative Writing, Film/Cinema, Graphic Design, Photography, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition, The Art of Reading and the Writing of Poetry