People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

JohnMorgan Baker

Part-time Lecturer

19th Century, 20th Century, Archives, Disability, Histories of Sexology, Modernism, Nationalism, Science Fiction, Transgender Studies

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

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

Carrie Matthews

Associate Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Associate Teaching Professor

crmatthe@uw.edu / 206-351-0214

Office Hours: Spring 2025: 3-5 pm Wednesdays, Padelford A-20, & by appointment

PDL A-20

Collaborative Teaching, Interdisciplinary Writing, Modernism, Pedagogy, Transatlantic

Anna Preus

Assistant Professor

apreus@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 9:30-10:30am on Zoom (email for link), or by appointment

PDL B-426

20th Century, Digital Humanities, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial, 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

Brian Reed

Professor
Divisional Dean of Humanities
Milliman Endowed Chair in the Humanities

bmreed@uw.edu / (206) 685-9969

Office Hours: By appointment

CMU 50

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Australasia, Comparative Literature, Experimental, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Nancy Sisko

Undergraduate Program Coordinator, English
Lecturer

nsisko@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

PDL A405

20th Century, Drama, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Shakespeare, Women Writers

Janine Sobers

Part-time Lecturer

jsobers@uw.edu

Office Hours:

PDL B-37

20th Century, American, Asian American, British, Comparative Literature, Global English, Latin American, Literature and Religion, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postsecular, Transnational

Henry Staten

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hstaten@uw.edu / 206-779-1098

Office Hours: 10:30-11:30 MWF

PDL B-409

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

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

Emeriti Faculty

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

Henry Laufenberg

Associate Teaching Professor, Retired

hjl3@uw.edu

20th Century, American, Early Entry Student Education, Modernism, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing for Neuroscience, Writing in the Social Sciences