People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

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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Catherine Cole

Professor
colecat@uw.edu
Office Hours: M & W, 2:40-3:40PM, by appointment, in Padelford B435
Padelford B435
African, Disability, Drama, Performance Studies, Theater History, Transatlantic, Transnational
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Matthew K. Hitchman

Acting Assistant Professor
hitchmk@uw.edu
Office Hours: T & Th 11 - 12
PDL A-308
19th Century, American, Culture, Genre Theory, Maritime Literature, Sentimental Novel, Transatlantic
Carrie Matthews

Carrie Matthews

Associate Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Associate Teaching Professor
crmatthe@uw.edu / 206-351-0214
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesdays, 1-3 pm and by appointment
PDL A-20
Collaborative Teaching, Interdisciplinary Writing, Modernism, Pedagogy, Transatlantic
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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
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Alys Eve Weinbaum

Professor
alysw@uw.edu
Office Hours: Office hours by appointment Tues and Thurs 3:30-4:30
PDL B-408
African American, Critical Theory, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Transatlantic