People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Chadwick Allen

Chadwick Allen

Professor
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Russell F. Stark University Professor

callen3@uw.edu / 206-543-6616

Office Hours: By Appt

GRB 340

American Indian/Native American, Culture, Frontier Studies, Indigenous, Literature, Maori Literature and Culture, Oceanic, Postcolonial, US Western Literature

Jessica Burstein

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: W 11-1

PDL A-502

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, British, Fashion, Gender, Literature, Modernism, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Visual Culture

Eva Cherniavsky

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

ec22@uw.edu / 206-543-6077

Office Hours: Weds 2:00-3:30 and by appt. NB: While my Weds OH are genreally in person, they will be remote/via Zoom on 1/29 and 2/5. Please email me if you'd like to meet at one of those times.

PDL A-103

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

Tom Foster

Tom Foster

Professor

tfoster@uw.edu / 206-543-8635

Office Hours: Thursdays 3-5, in-person in my office, and by appointment, either in person or over Zoom; email for appointments.

PDL B-424

Culture, Gender, Literature, Science and Technology, Science Fiction

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

Teaching Professor
Director, Computer-Integrated Courses

kgb@uw.edu / 206-543-4892

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:30, 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

John Griffith

John Griffith

Associate Professor Emeritus

American, Bible Studies, Literature

Professor Harkins in front of bookshelf

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu

Office Hours: M/W 10:30 - 11:30 AM or message for an appointment

PDL A-504

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Law, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, Queer Studies

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: spring 2025: by appointment

PDL B-433

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Apocalyptic Literature, Baroque and Neobaroque, Chicana/o, Critical Theory, Latino/a Studies, Literature, Modernism, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Transamerican

Michelle Liu

Faculty Mentor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Teaching Professor

Office Hours: TuTh 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

Colette Moore

Associate Professor

cvmoore@uw.edu / 206-543-2182

Office Hours: M 11-12; MW 2:30-3; by appointment

PDL B-421

English, History of the English Language, Language, Linguistics, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Sociolinguistics

Kate Norako photo

Leila Kate Norako

Associate Professor

lknorako@uw.edu

PDL A-309

British, Digital Humanities, Ecocriticism, English, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies

Jonathan Radocay

Assistant Professor

jradocay@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B-403

19th Century, 20th Century, American Indian/Native American, Community, Culture, Indigenous, Literature, Modernism, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity

Paul Remley

Paul Remley

Professor

remley@uw.edu / 206-543-6357

Office Hours: Thu 5:00-7:00 PM and by Appointment

PDL A-412

Literature, Old English

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: Wednesdays 2:30-4:30 pm

Padelford B-431

20th Century, 21st Century, Creative Writing, Literature, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Women Writers

Henry Staten

Henry Staten

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hstaten@uw.edu / 206-779-1098

Office Hours: t-th 10-11am

PDL B-409

19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, British, Derrida, Genre Theory, Literature, Modernism, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Wittgenstein

William Streitberger

Professor

streitwr@uw.edu / 206-685-9893

Office Hours: TuTh 9:20--10:20

PDL A-510

16th Century, 17th Century, British, Drama, History, Literature, Shakespeare, Textual Theory and Practice, World Drama

Dr. Anu in a red dress in conversation

Anu Taranath

Teaching Professor
Joint Appointment with Comparative History of Ideas (CHID)

Office Hours: by appointment

virtual office hours

21st Century, Diaspora Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global Studies, Literature, Pedagogy, Postcolonial, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational

Jesse Oak Taylor smiling

Jesse Oak Taylor

Professor

Office Hours: By Appointment

PDL A-408

19th Century, British, Climate change, Conservation, Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science and Technology, the Anthropocene

Deane Wilson

Part-time Lecturer

dgwilson@uw.edu

Office Hours: Th 12-2pm

PDL 402B

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Creative Writing, Ecocriticism, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place

Kathleen Woodward

Kathleen Woodward

Professor
Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

kw1@uw.edu / 206-543-3920

Office Hours: BY Appt

COMM 206

20th Century, Aging, American, Culture, Discourses of the Emotions, Literature, Science and Technology

Emeriti Faculty

Bob Abrams

Robert Abrams

Professor Emeritus

rabrams@uw.edu / 206-765-0547

Office Hours: M&W: 3:25-4:25, By appointment

PDL B-406

American, Culture, Literature, Philosophy, Space/Place, Visual Culture

Kathleen Blake

Professor Emerita

19th Century, British, Culture, Literature

Joseph Butwin

Joseph Butwin

Associate Professor Emeritus

19th Century, 19th Century British and Continental Literature; Jewish-American Literature and Culture, Art History, British, English, History, Jewish Studies, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Shakespeare

Photo of Richard Dunn

Richard Dunn

Professor Emeritus

19th Century, British, Literature, Victorian Fiction

Sydney Kaplan

Sydney Kaplan

Professor Emerita

sydneyk@uw.edu / 206-685-1538

Office Hours: on line by appointment

PDL A-302

20th Century, 21st Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, British, D.H. Lawrence, English, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Katherine Mansfield, Literature, Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Women Writers

Mark Patterson

Mark Patterson

Associate Professor Emeritus

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Critical Theory, Literary History, Literature, Pedagogy, Politics

Nikolai Popov

Senior Lecturer, Retired

20th Century, 21st Century, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics

Leroy Searle

Leroy Searle

Professor Emeritus

lsearle@uw.edu / 206-409-8878

A410

American, History and Philosophy of Science, Literary Criticism, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism, Science and Technology

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Brown, Marshall	Department Affiliate, Editor, Modern Language Quarterly, Professor of Comparative Literature	mbrown@uw.edu 206-543-1488
Handwerk, Gary	Professor	handwerk@uw.edu 206-543-2183

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
Allen, Carolyn	Professor Emerita
Lockwood, Thomas	Professor Emeritus