People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

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

Abhivyakti (Avu) Chaturvedi

Part-time Lecturer

achatur@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 11:30-1:00

PDL A303

African, Asian American, Caribbean, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Decolonial, Film/Cinema, Modernism, Postcolonial, Transatlantic

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

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

Anna Preus

Assistant Professor

apreus@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter '26: Tuesday 9-10 on Zoom (email for link); Thursday, 2:15-3:15 in person

PDL B-426

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

Jacob Pruett

Part-time Lecturer

pruettj@uw.edu

Cognitive Science, Modernism, Phenomenology, Postmodernism, Systems Theory

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

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

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

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

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