People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

Name

Field of Interest

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Emily George

Part-time Lecturer

Office Hours: M/W 1-3, by appointment. See our Canvas page for details.

16th Century, 17th Century, Drama, Education, English, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies, Theater History, Writing Pedagogy

Rhema Hokama

Assistant Professor

rhema@uw.edu / 206-685-2384

Office Hours: MW 2:30–3:30 (Spring Quarter 2025)

PDL A-311

16th Century, 17th Century, early modern literature, global Protestantism, global Renaissance, Global Studies, History, Intellectual History, Milton, Poetry and Poetics, Protestant Reformation, Renaissance, Shakespeare

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Jeffrey Todd Knight

Associate Professor

jtknight@uw.edu

PDL A-417

16th Century, 17th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies

Charles LaPorte

Professor

laporte@uw.edu / 206-543-7881

PDL A-508

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

Sarah Moore

Full-time Lecturer

srmoore2@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-12:30, and by appointment

PDL A507

Ecocriticism, English, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Medieval, Middle English, Old English, Shakespeare

Nancy Sisko

Undergraduate Program Coordinator, English
Lecturer

Office Hours: by appointment

PDL A405

20th Century, Drama, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Shakespeare, Women Writers

William Streitberger

Professor

streitwr@uw.edu / 206-685-9893

Office Hours: TuTh 9:20--10:20

PDL A-510

16th Century, 17th Century, British, Drama, History, Literature, Shakespeare, Textual Theory and Practice, World Drama

Emeriti Faculty

Joseph Butwin

Joseph Butwin

Associate Professor Emeritus

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