People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

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

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 2:30-4:00 PM and by appointment

PDL A-103

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, Postcolonial, Television

Laura Chrisman

Professor
Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English

lhc3@uw.edu / N/A

Office Hours: M 3-4pm or by email appointment

PDL B-401

19th Century, 20th Century, African, British, Literature of Empire, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, South African Literature

Linford Lamptey

Assistant Teaching Professor

lodlampt@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays @ 3-5pm

Padelford A-16 (LL)

Communication, Community, Decolonial, Digital Literacy, Indigenous, New Media, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Postcolonial

Anna Preus

Assistant Professor

apreus@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring '26: Monday, 12:15-1:15 in person; Wednesday 9:30-10:30 on Zoom (email for link)

PDL B-426

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

Janelle Rodriques

Associate Professor

jar0118@uw.edu

Office Hours: F, 10:00-11:45; 14:00-16:00 via Zoom, by appointment.

PDL B-405

20th Century, 21st Century, Black Atlantic, Black Futurity, Caribbean, Critiquing the Human, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Literary Tricksters, Postcolonial, Transatlantic

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