People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Jessica Burstein

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
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David Nikki Crouse

Professor
dcrouse@uw.edu / 907-687-7755
Office Hours: T 1:30 - 300 PM
PDL B-430
Comics, Creative Writing, Experimental, Narrative Analysis, Novel/Prose Fiction, Novella, Queer Studies

Erin Gilbert

Part-time Lecturer
eringil@uw.edu
Office Hours: W 1:30-2:30 TH 10:00-11:00 (and by appointment)
Padelford (LL) B 28
19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Ecocriticism, Latin American, Novel/Prose Fiction, Russian Studies, Translation and Interpretation, Visual Culture
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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

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
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Frances McCue

Teaching Professor
mccuef@uw.edu / 206-931-3779
Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00
Padelford B434
20th Century, Aesthetics, Education, Interdisciplinary Writing, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics, Public Scholarship, Writing Pedagogy
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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

Joseph Butwin

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
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Charles Johnson

Professor Emeritus
chasjohn@uw.edu
Novel/Prose Fiction

Nikolai Popov

Senior Lecturer, Retired
popov@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name Title
McElroy, Colleen Professor Emerita