People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Megan Callow

Megan Callow

Teaching Professor
Director of Writing, UW Seattle

Office Hours: By appointment - please email

PDL A11-B

Communication, Education, Expository Writing, Faculty Development for Writing Instruction, Genre Theory, Interdisciplinary Writing, Online Learning, Rhetoric and Composition, Science and Technology, Writing in the Sciences, Writing Pedagogy

Chris Holstrom

Assistant Teaching Professor

cholstro@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 12:00-2:00

PDL A-19

Digital Humanities, Information Architecture, Interdisciplinary Writing, Knowledge Organization, Rhetorical Theory, Science and Technology, Science Writing, Subject Indexing, Technical Writing, Writing Pedagogy

Jonathan Isaac

Assistant Teaching Professor
Director, Program for Writing Across Campus

Office Hours: Thursday 9-noon, and by appointment

PDL A-11E

Interdisciplinary Writing, labor studies, Publics/Public Spheres, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy

Carrie Matthews

Carrie Matthews

Associate Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Associate Teaching Professor

crmatthe@uw.edu / 206-351-0214

Office Hours: Autumn 2025: Mondays, 3:30-4:30 pm & Tuesdays, 4:15-5:15 pm

PDL A-20

Collaborative Teaching, Interdisciplinary Writing, Modernism, Pedagogy, Transatlantic

McCue

Frances McCue

Teaching Professor

mccuef@uw.edu / 206-931-3779

Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00

Padelford B434

20th Century, Aesthetics, Education, Interdisciplinary Writing, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics, Public Scholarship, Writing Pedagogy

Norman Wacker

Associate Teaching Professor

nwacker@uw.edu / 206-685-3804

Office Hours: M/W 10:30 - 11:30 and by appointment

PDL A-14

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

Emeriti Faculty

Robert McNamara

Robert McNamara

Principal Lecturer Emeritus

rmcnamar@uw.edu

Academic Writing, Interdisciplinary Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Writing Pedagogy

Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill

Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill

Principal Lecturer Emerita

esoneill@uw.edu

collaborative learning, Community-engaged learning, Education, Expository Writing, Interdisciplinary Writing, student retention, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy