People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Monika Kaup

Monika Kaup

Professor
mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989
Office Hours: winter 2026: 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
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
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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
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Alys Eve Weinbaum

Professor
alysw@uw.edu
Office Hours: Office hours by appointment Tues and Thurs 3:30-4:30
PDL B-408
African American, Critical Theory, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Transatlantic

Emeriti Faculty

Katherine Cummings

Associate Professor
Emerita
ckate@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Gender, Ideology, Nationalism, Queer Studies, Science and Technology, Sexuality
Mark Patterson

Mark Patterson

Associate Professor Emeritus
mpat@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, American, Critical Theory, Literary History, Literature, Pedagogy, Politics