People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Department Chair
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

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

Chadwick Allen

Professor
Associate Vice Provost, Office for Academic Personnel and Faculty
Russell F. Stark University Professor

callen3@uw.edu / 206-543-6616

Office Hours: By Appt

GRB 405

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

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30; W 8-9 am & by appt

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: 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

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Francesca Colonnese

Part-time Lecturer

fcolonne@uw.edu

Office Hours: W, 11 - 1, or by appointment

A-312

19th Century, Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Science and Technology, Temporality, Textual Studies

Tom Foster

Professor

tfoster@uw.edu / 206-543-8635

Office Hours: By appointment only; email me to request appointment

PDL B-424

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

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

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu

Office Hours: M/W 1:00 - 2:00 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

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

Michelle Liu

Faculty Mentor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Teaching Professor

msmliu@uw.edu

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

Colette Moore

Associate Professor

cvmoore@uw.edu / 206-543-2182

Office Hours: T 1:30-3:20, or by appointment

PDL B-421

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

Jonathan Radocay

Assistant Professor

jradocay@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 4:00-5:00 PM (in-person); T 3:00-4:00 PM (virtual)

PDL B-403

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

Paul Remley

Professor

remley@uw.edu / 206-543-6357

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

Literature, Old English

Henry Staten

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hstaten@uw.edu / 206-779-1098

Office Hours: T-W 10-11

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 / 206-9281069

Office Hours: Tu Th 11:30

PDL A-510

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

Anu Taranath

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

anu@uw.edu

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

Professor

jot8@uw.edu

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: Tuesday 10am-12pm

402 Padelford Hall

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

Kathleen Woodward

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

kw1@uw.edu

Office Hours: BY Appt

PDL 403

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

Emeriti Faculty

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

kblake@uw.edu

19th Century, British, Culture, Literature

Joseph Butwin

Associate Professor Emeritus

joeyb@uw.edu

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

Richard Dunn

Professor Emeritus

dickd@uw.edu

19th Century, British, Literature, Victorian Fiction

John Griffith

Associate Professor Emeritus

jgriff@uw.edu

American, Bible Studies, Literature

Sydney Kaplan

Professor Emerita

sydneyk@uw.edu / 206-685-1538

Office Hours: on line by appointment

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

Associate Professor Emeritus

mpat@uw.edu

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

Nikolai Popov

Senior Lecturer, Retired

popov@uw.edu

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

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

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