People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Abhivyakti (Avu) Chaturvedi

Part-time Lecturer

Office Hours: MW 11:30-1:00

PDL A303

African, Asian American, Caribbean, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Decolonial, Film/Cinema, Modernism, Postcolonial, Transatlantic

Eva Cherniavsky

Professor
Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture
Director of Graduate Studies

ec22@uw.edu / 206-543-6077

Office Hours: Th 2:30-4:00 PM and by appointment

PDL A-103

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, Postcolonial, Television

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Teaching Professor
Director, Computer-Integrated Courses

kgb@uw.edu / 206-543-4892

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., in office and via Zoom; also by appointment

PDL A-305

20th Century, American, Comics, Film/Cinema, Gender, Literature, Multimodal Composition, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity, Teaching with Technology, Women Writers, Writing in the Disciplines

Michelle Liu

Faculty Mentor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Teaching Professor

Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:20 pm and by appointment

PDL A-420

20th Century, American, Asian American, Culture, Expository Writing, Film/Cinema, Gender, Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Writing Pedagogy

David Shields

Professor

dshields@uw.edu / 206-543-2247

Office Hours: Friday, 2-4 pm. Or email to arrange phone call/Zoom meeting.

PDL A414

Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Book-length essay, Boundary-jumping work, Documentary film, Film/Cinema, Literary/Photographic/Cinematic collage, Nonfiction Prose, Personal essay, Postmodern

Emeriti Faculty

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