People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

Janet Barrow

Part-time Lecturer

jsb2024@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30 pm

Padelford B25

21st Century, Creative Writing, Latin American, Literature, Multilingualism, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction

Olivia Bell

Part-time Lecturer

bello@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 1-2PM & Thursdays 3-4PM

Padelford B25 (Creative writing suite)

Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Genealogy, History, Literature and Religion, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science Fiction, Women Writers

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: W 12-2 & by appt

PDL A-502

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

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: T 1:30-2:30 & W 11:00-12:00

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

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu

Office Hours: T/TH 12-1 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

Yixuan Jiang

Part-time Lecturer

yixuanj@uw.edu

Office Hours: M/W 2:15-3:15 pm

PDL B5-E

18th Century, 19th Century, British, Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology

Monika Kaup

Professor

mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989

Office Hours: spring 2026: by appointment only

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

Frances McCue

Teaching Professor

mccuef@uw.edu / 206-931-3779

Office Hours: By Appointment-- for asynchronous course.

Padelford B434

20th Century, Aesthetics, Education, Interdisciplinary Writing, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics, Public Scholarship, Writing Pedagogy

Elena Steiert

Part-time Lecturer

esteiert@uw.edu

Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Translation and Interpretation

Jesse Oak Taylor

Professor

jot8@uw.edu

Office Hours: M/W 1:30 - 2:30 & By Appointment

PDL A-408

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

Nikita Willeford Kastrinos

Part-time Lecturer

nikitaw@uw.edu

18th Century, 19th Century, Book Arts, Book History, Ecology, Form, Literature, Media Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction, Print Culture, Textual Studies

Emeriti Faculty

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

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