People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

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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

Joe Concannon

Part-time Lecturer

jscon@uw.edu / 206-543-7990

Office Hours: T 12-1

PDL A-503

Literary Criticism, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition

Andrew Feld

Associate Professor
Editor, Seattle Review
Director, Creative Writing

aefeld@uw.edu / 206-543-9865

Office Hours: Tuesday, 1-3

PDL B-432 & B-025 Creative Writing Director's Office

Poetry and Poetics

Rhema Hokama

Assistant Professor

rhema@uw.edu / 206-685-2384

Office Hours: MW 12:30–12:30 (Winter Quarter 2026) - please confirm with me in advance

PDL A-311

16th Century, 17th Century, global Protestantism, global Renaissance, Global Studies, History, Intellectual History, John Donne, John Milton, Poetry and Poetics, Protestant Reformation, Renaissance, Shakespeare

Charles LaPorte

Professor

laporte@uw.edu / 206-543-7881

PDL A-508

19th Century, Genre Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Religion and Literature, Romanticism, Shakespeare

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

Leila Kate Norako

Associate Professor

lknorako@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment (please email)

PDL A-309

Digital Humanities, Fantasy, Gender, Literary Criticism, Medieval, Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies

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

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

Pimone Triplett

Professor

ptrip@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment (please just email to schedule)

PDL A-416

Asian American, Creative Writing, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literary Criticism, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity

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

Emeriti Faculty

Linda Bierds

Professor Emerita

lbierds@uw.edu / 206-543-9623

PDL B-406

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Contemporary World Poetry, Poetry and Poetics

Richard Kenney

Professor Emeritus

rk@uw.edu / 360 379 1446

Poetry and Poetics

Heather McHugh

Professor Emerita

nomenclatter@gmail.com

Art, Creative Writing, Film/Cinema, Graphic Design, Photography, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition, The Art of Reading and the Writing of Poetry

Robert McNamara

Principal Lecturer Emeritus

rmcnamar@uw.edu

Academic Writing, Interdisciplinary Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Writing Pedagogy

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

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
McElroy, Colleen	Professor Emerita