People - Faculty

For Teaching Assistants, please see the Graduate Student directory.

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Nancy Bou Ayash

Associate Professor
Faculty Mentor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
nbayash@uw.edu / 206-543-2612
Office Hours: Th 1:00-3:00 & by appointment
PDL A-418
Global English, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Rhetoric and Composition, Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy
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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 Poland

Part-time Lecturer
mjpoland@uw.edu
Office Hours: Not teaching at UW in Winter 2026 -- email to meet
PDL B-36
19th Century, Archives, British, Critical Theory, Global Anglophone, Irish Literature, Literary Criticism, Periodicals Studies, Settler Colonialism, Textual Studies, Transnational

Anselma Prihandita

Part-time Lecturer
anselmap@uw.edu
Autoethnography, Creative Writing, Decolonial, Literacy, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetoric and Composition, Translingualism, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy

Cristina Sánchez-Martín

Assistant Professor
csanch2@uw.edu
Applied Linguistics, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Multilingualism, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy
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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