People - Graduate Students & TAs | Department of English

Em Beckert

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

Creative Writing

Olivia Bell

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

bello@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-3:30PM & Thursdays 11AM-12PM

Padelford B25 (Creative writing suite)

Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Genealogy, History, Literature and Religion, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science Fiction, Women Writers

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Olive Brend

Graduate Student

ombrend@uw.edu

Office Hours: Monday 6-7 pm (Zoom); Tuesday 10am-12noon (PDL B25)

PDL B25

Animal Studies, Creative Writing, Critical Animal Studies, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Ecocriticism, Environment, Gender, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Space/Place, Trans Studies

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Anne Duncan

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

aduncan1@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment (please email)

PDL B5-C (Padelford B wing, PL level, room B5C)

21st Century, Aesthetics, Affect, American, Book Arts, Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Genre Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Rasheena Fountain

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

rfount@uw.edu

Zoom

African American, Creative Writing, Ecocriticism, Environment, Indigenous, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Queer Studies, Urban Studies

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Nanya Jhingran

Graduate Student

nanyaj@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, Creative Writing, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Intellectual History, Law, Poetry and Poetics, Sexuality, Space/Place

Yixuan Jiang

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

yixuanj@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 11:30-12:30/ W 12:30-1:30

PDL B5-E

18th Century, 19th Century, British, Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Nationalism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Science and Technology

Zoha Kazemi

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

zk82@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11 to 12

SAV 417

Creative Writing, Culture, Cybernetics, Popular Culture, Science Fiction, Solar Punk, Speculative Fiction, Utopia

Reginald Kent

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

regkent@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW: 2.15pm-3.15pm

PDL B30 (Office hours on Zoom, sign up sheet: https://tinyurl.com/Kent-Office-Hours)

Affect, Creative Writing, Global Asias, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Singapore Studies

Alexus Mendoza

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

alexum@uw.edu

Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics

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Lillian Morton

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

lmort17@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 12:30pm-2:30pm on Zoom

PDL B-25

Creative Writing, Drama, Film/Cinema, Medieval, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Women Writers

Anselma Prihandita

Graduate Student

anselmap@uw.edu

Autoethnography, Creative Writing, Decolonial, Literacy, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetoric and Composition, Translingualism, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy

Rhianna Prine

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

rprine@uw.edu

Office Hours: TH: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

PDL B5P

Affect, Creative Writing, Embodiment, Linguistic Justice, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Translingualism

K.C. Smith

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

ksmith59@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 9:30am - 10:30am; or by appointment

Padelford B-25

African American, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Women Writers

Elena Steiert

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

esteiert@uw.edu

Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Translation and Interpretation

Lily Swanson

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

lil72@uw.edu

Office Hours: WF 2:00pm-3:00pm

PDL B-25, Creative Writing Suite

Creative Writing, Critical Marxism, Literacy, Popular Culture, Postmodernism, Science Fiction

Binh Tang

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

binhtang@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Padelford Building, Room B-25

Classical reception, Creative Writing, Film/Cinema, Interdisciplinary Writing, Literature, Medieval, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Space/Place, War and Terror

Paramita Vadhahong

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

parahong@uw.edu

Padelford B-25

Archives, Asian American, Creative Writing, Digital Humanities, Multilingualism, Poetry and Poetics, Space/Place, Translation and Interpretation

Edwin Williamson

Graduate Student

eowill@uw.edu

Office Hours: W: 11 - 1PM

PDL B-25

Anthropology, Art History, Asian American, Creative Writing, Ecocriticism, Environment, Experimental, Nonfiction Prose, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies

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Jack Wolfram

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

jwolfra@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tu/Th 12:30-1:30PM or by appt.

PDL B5N (*B wing, bottom floor)

20th Century, 21st Century, Access and Inclusion, Capitalism and Temporality, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Disability, Performance Studies, Playwriting, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Pedagogy