People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Chadwick Allen

Chadwick Allen

Professor
Associate Vice Provost, Office for Academic Personnel and Faculty
Russell F. Stark University Professor
callen3@uw.edu / 206-543-6616
Office Hours: By Appt
GRB 405
American Indian/Native American, Culture, Frontier Studies, Indigenous, Literature, Maori Literature and Culture, Oceanic, Postcolonial, US Western Literature

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
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Eva Cherniavsky

Professor
Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture
Director of Graduate Studies
ec22@uw.edu / 206-543-6077
Office Hours: Th 1:30-3:00 and by appt
PDL A-103
18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, Postcolonial, Television
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Laura Chrisman

Professor
Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English
lhc3@uw.edu / N/A
Office Hours: Th, 10.45-11.45am or by email appointment
PDL B-401
19th Century, 20th Century, African, British, Literature of Empire, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, South African Literature
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Linford Lamptey

Assistant Teaching Professor
lodlampt@uw.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays @ 11am to 12pm
Communication, Community, Decolonial, Digital Literacy, Indigenous, New Media, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Postcolonial
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Anna Preus

Assistant Professor
apreus@uw.edu
Office Hours: Autumn '25: Tuesday 9:30-10:30 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
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Anu Taranath

Teaching Professor
Joint Appointment with Comparative History of Ideas (CHID)
anu@uw.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
virtual office hours
21st Century, Diaspora Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Global Studies, Literature, Pedagogy, Postcolonial, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational