People - Graduate Students & TAs

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Dan Abella

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
dabella9@uw.edu / / PDL-B005A
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00p.m.
20th Century, Aesthetics, Anglophone Filipino Literature, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Textual Studies

Kalie Adams

Graduate Student

Ahmed Alawadhi

Graduate Student
ahmed95@uw.edu /
Creative Writing, Discourse Analysis, Game Studies, Genre Theory, Language Pedagogy, Narrative Analysis, Queer Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Pedagogy

Ahmad Alharthi

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
aharthi@uw.edu
Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Global English, Second Language Acquisition, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
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Lubna Alzaroo

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
lubnaa@uw.edu
19th Century, American, Ecocriticism, Environment, Indigenous, Necropolitics, Postcolonial, Settler Colonialism

JohnMorgan Baker

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
bakerw5@uw.edu
Office Hours: Please contact by e-mail.
20th Century, 21st Century, Affect, Critical Theory, Ecocriticism, Literary Criticism, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Transgender Studies

Judy-Gail Baker

Graduate Student
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Nancy Bartley

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
bartln@uw.edu
Film/Cinema, Media and otherness; religion; consumerism; social justice; film theory, Modernism, Nationalism, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, War and Terror
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Claire E. Barwise

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
cbarwise@uw.edu
19th Century, 20th Century, American, Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Literature, Modernism, Sexuality, Women Writers

Andreas Bassett

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
andbass@uw.edu
16th Century, 17th Century, Cultural Bibliography, Digital Humanities, Drama, English, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies, Theater History
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Daniel Bentson

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
bentsond@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, American, Eco-Sadism, Environment, Hollow-Earth Sciences, Human Uploading, Postmodern, Science Fiction

Misun Bishop

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
misungb@uw.edu
Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Center Studies, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Program Administration

Sarah Bitter

Graduate Student
sbitter@uw.edu
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Elizabeth R. Boyle

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
erboyle@uw.edu / /
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Gust Burns

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
ghburns@uw.edu
analyses of anti-blackness and capitalism, articulations prohibitions and prescriptions of the faculties
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Carolyn Callaghan

Graduate Student
callaghc@uw.edu
19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, American, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Textual Studies

Ruiming Cash

Graduate Student
rcash2@uw.edu

Szu-Han (Sophia) Chen

Graduate Student
shsc@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Experimental, Modernism, Philosophy, Postmodern, Samuel Beckett
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Charles Chesnut

Graduate Student
chesnut@uw.edu
18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Critical Theory, Interdisciplinary Writing, Romanticism, the juxtaposition of literary and medical writings in authors who are/were also physicians.

Eric Chu

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
erictchu@uw.edu
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Joe Concannon

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
jscon@uw.edu

Mary Cooper

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
coopermk@uw.edu
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Jennifer L. Cuffman

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
cuffmanj@uw.edu
21st Century, Affect, American, British, Critical Theory, Culture, Literary Criticism, Literature, New Media, Postmodern
Krista Daniel

Krista Daniel

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary Writing Programs
kzd0008@uw.edu / PDL B-37
Office Hours: TTH 10:45-11:45am
18th Century, 20th Century, Anglo-Irish, British, Drama, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Publics/Public Spheres, Women Writers

Sumayyah Daud

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
dauds@uw.edu
18th Century, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Race Theory, Ecocriticism, Literature, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place, Translation and Interpretation
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Laura M. De Vos

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
lmdevos@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Affect, African American, American, American Indian/Native American, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Indigenous

James DeRosa

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
jbderosa@uw.edu
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Thaomi Michelle Dinh

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
tmdinh@uw.edu
Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Gender, Popular Culture, Science Fiction

Julie Dykema

Graduate Student
dykemaj2@uw.edu
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Navid Ebrahimzadeh

Graduate Student, Computer Support
navide@uw.edu
20th Century, Aesthetics, American, Art History, Avant-Garde, Modernism, Postmodernism

Dilara Elbir

Graduate Student

Joshua Eskew

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
eskewj@uw.edu
Applied Linguistics, Classical Rhetoric, Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Research Methods, Rhetorical Theory
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Kelsey A. Fanning

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
fannik@uw.edu
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Sarah Faulkner

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
sef08@uw.edu / Padelford B417
Office Hours: Not Teaching
18th Century, 19th Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, British, Digital Humanities, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Romanticism, Textual Studies, Women Writers

Alec Fisher

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
alecfish@uw.edu / PDL B5C
Office Hours: Monday/Tuesday 10:30-11:30
19th Century, 20th Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Performance Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Sexuality
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Brittney Frantece

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
britfran@uw.edu
African American, American, Art History, Critical Race Theory, Experimental, Popular Culture, Space/Place, Visual Culture
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Emily George

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
ecg136@uw.edu
16th Century, 17th Century, Drama, Education, English, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies, Theater History, Writing Pedagogy

Sarah J. Ghasedi

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
ghasedi@uw.edu
19th Century, Environment, Gender, History of Science, Medical Humanities, Periodical Studies, Science and Technology, Women Writers
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Stephanie Gibbons

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
gibbonss@uw.edu / PDL B5-C
Office Hours: MW 1-2pm
20th Century, 21st Century, Affect, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Utopian & Dystopian Literature
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Kaelie Giffel

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
giffel@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, History, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Philosophy, Women Writers

Alycia Gilbert

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, UW in the High Schools
amgilb@uw.edu
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Laura Griffith

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
lgriff2@uw.edu
19th Century, Bible Studies, British, Charlotte Yonge, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, George Eliot, Novel/Prose Fiction, religion, Women Writers
Chelsea Grimmer

Chelsea Grimmer

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
cgrimmer@uw.edu / PDL B-417
Office Hours: By appointment: cgrimmer@uw.edu
21st Century, Creative Writing, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Disability, Ecocriticism, Multimodal and Public Writing and Arts Pedagogy and Praxis, Poetry and Poetics, Popular Culture, Queer Studies
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Jennifer Haden

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
jlhaden@uw.edu
19th Century, English, Novel/Prose Fiction, Philanthropy, Science and Technology, Women Writers
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Stephanie Hankinson

Graduate Student
skh216@uw.edu
Caribbean, Ecocriticism, Environment, Film/Cinema, Natural Disaster, Postcolonial, Transnational
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Brian Hardison

Graduate Student
bchardis@uw.edu
Anglo-Latin hagiography, Anglo-Latin literature and culture to 1100, glossography, History, Intellectual History, Manuscript Studies, Medieval, Old English, palaeography and codicology, Textual Studies
Lydia Heberling

Lydia M. Heberling

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
heberl@uw.edu
American, American Indian/Native American, Environment, Indigenous, Oceanic, Poetry and Poetics
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Olivia Hernandez

Graduate Student
ojh26@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Chicana/o, English, Latino/a Studies, Literature, Multilingualism, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition

Rachel Hill

Graduate Student
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Matthew K. Hitchman

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, English 109/110
hitchmk@uw.edu / PDL A-011B
Office Hours: Tues & Wed 8:30 - 10:30
19th Century, American, Maritime Literature, Sentimental Novel
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Robert Hodges

Graduate Student
bhodge4@uw.edu
19th Century, 20th Century, American, Critical Theory, Genre Fictions, psychoanalysis, Space/Place, Transatlantic, Visual Culture

Jessica Holmes

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, UW in the High Schools
holmes07@uw.edu / PDL A11-A
Office Hours: M 9:30-10:30 W 12:20-1:20
Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing, Ecocriticism, Environment, Modernism

Brittney Holt

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
britfran@uw.edu
Alysse Hotz

Alysse Hotz

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
ahotz@uw.edu
19th Century, 20th Century, American, Critical Race Theory, Intellectual History, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, U.S. Social Movements

Devon Houtz

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
dhoutz@uw.edu / Padelford B-25C
Office Hours: M 1-2 PM & Th 3-4 PM
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Matt Howard

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
mh37589@uw.edu / Padelford B5D
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays - 2:10-3:10pm
19th Century, 20th Century, Access and Inclusion, African American, Kinesthetics and Automobility, Writing Pedagogy
Yining Huang

Yining Huang

Graduate Student
American, Bilingualism, Children's Literature, Comics, Culture, Gender, International Studies, Shakespeare, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Translation and Interpretation

Jeffrey Janosik

Graduate Student
janosik@uw.edu
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Elizabeth Janssen

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
ljanssen@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Global English, Postcolonial, Publics/Public Spheres, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies
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Nanya Jhingran

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, Expository Writing Program
nanyaj@uw.edu / PDL A11
Office Hours: Th 11-1 (please email)
20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Race Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, History, Nationalism, Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial, War and Terror
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Safiya Karmy-Jones

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
karmys@uw.edu

Naima Kazmi

Graduate Student
kazmin@uw.edu
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Bom (Belle) Kim

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
bbkim@uw.edu
Office Hours: MW 2:30-3:30
20th Century, 21st Century, African American, Asian American, Critical Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Diaspora Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literature, Postcolonial

Tyler Kipling

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
tkipling@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Affect, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Disability, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literature, Media Studies, Queer Studies

Dino Kladouris

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
dklad@uw.edu / PDL B-5K
Office Hours: T/W 1:30-2:30, and by appointment
20th Century, 21st Century, Affect, American, Asian American, Diaspora Studies, Homonationalism, Queer Studies, Sexuality
Caleb Knapp

Caleb Knapp

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary Writing Programs
cbk5@uw.edu / CHID Green Room, Padelford B-102
Office Hours: Mondays, 12:30-2:20 pm
19th Century, 20th Century, Atlantic Slavery, Critical Theory, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality
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E. J. Koh

Graduate Student
ejkoh@uw.edu
Asian American, Diaspora Studies, Film/Cinema, History, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation
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David Kumler

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
kumler@uw.edu / PDL B5-A
Office Hours: TTh 2:30-3:30
20th Century, 21st Century, American, Cosmic Horror, Culture, Occult Horror, Political Nihilism, Political Radicalism, Political Science, Subculture
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Max Lane

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
melane99@uw.edu / ART 347
Office Hours: TTH 11:30A-12:30P; or by appointment
19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, African American, American Indian/Native American, Culture, Digital Humanities, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity

Christina Larmore

Graduate Student
cmszabo@uw.edu

Thais Lascu

Graduate Student

Claire Lee

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
ncllee@uw.edu / PADELFORD B35
Office Hours: T 10:30-12:30
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Sara Lovett

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, Expository Writing Program
slovett@uw.edu / PDL A-11 & MGH 088
Office Hours: M 1:30-4:30 (MGH 088) & W 1:30-4:30 (PDL A-11)
Access and Inclusion, Critical Race Theory, Expository Writing, Game Studies, Political Science, Public Scholarship, Rhetoric and Composition, Sociolinguistics, Two-Year Colleges, Writing Pedagogy
Margaret Lundberg

Margaret Lundberg

Graduate Student
margal3@uw.edu / 2536924582
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Autoethnography, Digital Humanities, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Literacy, Narrative Inquiry, Nonfiction Prose, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing in the Disciplines

Renee Lynch

Graduate Student
lynchren@uw.edu
My face and an oven mitt.

Alexander McCauley

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
apmccau@uw.edu / PDL B5E
Office Hours: MW 12:30 - 1:30
19th Century, Atlantis, Ecocriticism, Population
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Amanda M. McCourt

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
amccourt@uw.edu / 701-388-5765 / PDL B36
Office Hours: TTH 1:00-1:30pm; 3:30-4:00pm
20th Century, 21st Century, American, Cognitive Science, Critical Theory, Postmodern, Science Fiction

Patrick McGowan

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistan Director/ English 109/110
pjmg@uw.edu

Alexandra Meany

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
meanya@uw.edu / Savery 417
Office Hours: M 1:20-3:20 and by appointment
20th Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Modernism, Space/Place, Urban Studies

Mara Minion

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
mminion@uw.edu
19th Century, Transatlantic, Women Writers
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Danbee Moon

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
moon0127@uw.edu / ART 347
Office Hours: MW 10:30-11:30
18th Century, 19th Century, Children's Literature, Education, Gender, Gothic, Literary Criticism, Romanticism, Writing Pedagogy

Sarah Moore

Graduate Student

Fatema Musazay

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
fsaber@uw.edu
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Jacob Oliver

Graduate Student
jsoliver@uw.edu
19th Century, Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature, History, Literature, Media Studies, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism

Caitlin Palo

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
cpalo@uw.edu
18th Century, 20th Century, American, British, Communication, Epistolary Writing, Experimental, Genre Theory, Language Poetry, Novel/Prose Fiction, Pedagogy, Publics/Public Spheres, The Gothic
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Shane R. Peterson

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
shrp98@uw.edu
19th Century, 20th Century, Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition, Romanticism, War and Terror, Writing Pedagogy
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Reuven Pinnata

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
reuvenp8@uw.edu / ART 147
Office Hours: Tue 10:30-12:30
Childhood Studies, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Postcolonial, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Sound Studies
Matt Poland

Matthew Poland

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
mjpoland@uw.edu
Office Hours: On leave 2018-19
19th Century, British, Digital Humanities, History of the Book, Library and Information History, Literature, Shakespeare, Textual Studies
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Caitlin Postal

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
cpostal@uw.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Digital Humanities, History of the English Language, Language, Linguistics, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, New Media, Popular Culture, Textual Studies

Anselma Prihandita

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
anselmap@uw.edu
Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Composition, Science Fiction

Wei Qiang

Graduate Student
weiqiang@uw.edu
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Barkley Ramsey

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
bmramsey@uw.edu
19th Century, British, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Language, Literary Criticism, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity
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Kathleen Reeves

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, UW in the High Schools
kreeves2@uw.edu / PDL A-011 A
Office Hours: TTH 11:30-12:30
20th Century, 21st Century, American, Critical Theory, Culture, Embodiment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literature, Postmodern, Women Writers
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D.E. Roberts

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
derob@uw.edu
Affect, Comparative Diagnosis, Criminalization, Critical Race Theory, Disability, Gender, Law, Medicalization, Monstrosity, Poetry and Poetics, Psychology, Science and Technology, Sexuality, Transgender Studies, Visual Culture
Carol Robertson

Carol Robertson

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
carolr3@uw.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11 am - 1 pm

Phillip Russell

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
prusse@uw.edu
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Rachel Schlotfeldt

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
schlorac@uw.edu / ART 351
Asian American, Digital Humanities, Film/Cinema, Media Studies, New Media, Popular Culture, Postmodern, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Visual Culture

Shauna Searcy

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
sksearcy@uw.edu
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Holly Shelton

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
hshelton@uw.edu
Genre Theory, Ideology, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Multilingualism, Rhetoric and Composition, Transnational
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Ian Sherman-Youngblood

Graduate Student
iansage@uw.edu
Applied Linguistics, Education, Expository Writing, Genre Theory, Language, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition
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Janine Sobers

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
jsobers@uw.edu / PDL B-28
Office Hours:
19th Century, 20th Century, Asian American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Latin American, Modernism, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Transatlantic, Transnational

Mediha Sorma

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
med1985@uw.edu / 206-685-2876 / PDL B-10

Joseph Telegen

Graduate Student
jtelegen@uw.edu
Communication, Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Intellectual History, Language, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Nationalism, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Composition, The Rhetoric of Israel/Palestine; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Professional Wrestling
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Sumyat Thu

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, Computer Integrated Classroom
smthu@uw.edu
Critical Race Theory, Expository Writing, Global English, Multilingualism, Public Scholarship, Rhetoric and Composition, Transnational, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy

Michael Alexander Turner

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
malext@uw.edu / Padelford B-25C (on floor LL, building B in the Creative Writing suite)
Office Hours: Th 12:30-1:20 and 2:30-3:30 or by appointment
Chinese Poetry, Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Old English, Paleography, Philology, Poetry and Poetics

Ethan Ucker

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
eucker@uw.edu

Ha Young Um

Graduate Student

Taylor Vander Hyde

Graduate Student

Tyler Wagner

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
tjwagner@uw.edu / PDL B-25C
Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition
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Thomas (TJ) Walker

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
Assistant Director, Expository Writing Program
tjwalker@uw.edu / PDL A-11
Office Hours: MW 2:30--3:30pm
Applied Linguistics, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Race and Ethnicity, Second Language Acquisition, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Translingualism, Writing Pedagogy
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Yan Wang

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
yw72@uw.edu / Art Building 351
Office Hours: TTH9.00-10.00
Critical Theory, Education, Expository Writing, Multilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Translation and Interpretation, Writing Pedagogy
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Alan Williams

Graduate Student
Teaching Assistant
alanw84@uw.edu / PDL B37
Office Hours: MW 2:30-3:30pm
20th Century, 21st Century, Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Japanese, Nationalism, Queer Studies, Transpacific, Visual Culture