People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

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Joe Concannon

Part-time Lecturer
jscon@uw.edu / 206-543-7990
Office Hours: T 12-1
PDL A-503
Literary Criticism, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition
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Jianfeng He

Part-time Lecturer
jfhe@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, African American, Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction
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Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Chair
hibrahim@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
PDL A-101
20th Century, 21st Century, Aesthetics, African American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literary Criticism, Literature
Monika Kaup

Monika Kaup

Professor
mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989
Office Hours: fall 2025: 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
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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Leila Kate Norako

Associate Professor
lknorako@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment (please email)
PDL A-309
Digital Humanities, Fantasy, Gender, Literary Criticism, Medieval, Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies
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Matthew Poland

Part-time Lecturer
mjpoland@uw.edu
Office Hours: MW 12:30-1:30
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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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

Emeriti Faculty

Leroy Searle

Leroy Searle

Professor Emeritus
lsearle@uw.edu / 206-409-8878
American, History and Philosophy of Science, Literary Criticism, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism, Science and Technology