People - Graduate Students & TAs

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Jennie Baker

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
Liaison, UW in the High School
jenba@uw.edu
Office Hours: On leave
PDL B404
21st Century, Decolonial, Disability, Pedagogy, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction
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Em Beckert

Graduate Student
ebb15@uw.edu / 312-6187015
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00 -2:00pm
PDL B25
Creative Writing, Education, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Interdisciplinary Writing, Literacy, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies
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Joey Birdsong

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
joeybird@uw.edu
Office Hours: Friday 1-3pm
Padelford B25
Creative Writing, Drama, Gender, Literature, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Shakespeare
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Abby Cheng

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
abbych@uw.edu
Office Hours: T TH 1:30-2:30
Padelford B025 (Creative Writing Suite)
Creative Writing, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Disability, Nonfiction Prose, Postcolonial, Psychology, Queer Studies
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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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Missy González-Garduño

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
mimgonz@uw.edu
Office Hours: WF 1:20-2:20pm
PDL B-26
21st Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Latino/a Studies, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, woman of color feminism
Rory Hughes

Rory Hughes

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
hughesze@uw.edu
Office Hours: Fridays 9-11am on Zoom and by appointment
SAV 417
Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gothic, Horror, literature and folklore, Manuscript Studies, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Textual Studies, Transhistorical

Karina Jones

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
kljon25@uw.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-3:00 PM
Padelford B25
African American, Creative Writing, Gender, Magic, Queer Studies, Religious Studies
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Reginald Kent

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
regkent@uw.edu
Office Hours: M: 830am-1030am
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
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Kaitlyn Kretsinger-Dunham

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
kaitkret@uw.edu / 661-428-4472
Office Hours: WF 11:30-12:30, or by appointment
Padelford Hall B5J
20th Century, 21st Century, American, Disability, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Medical Humanities, Queer Studies, Reproductive Sterilization, Temporality

Francheska Marzuki

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
fmarzuki@uw.edu
Office Hours: W 11:30-1:20 PM
SAV 417
20th Century, 21st Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, reproductive cultures and politics, Science Fiction, Sexuality

Ariel Sepulveda

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
arielsep@uw.edu
20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Race Theory, Latino/a Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science Fiction
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Eric Villiers

Graduate Student
evillier@uw.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:00am-1:00pm, or by appointment
HUT 301
Drama, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Museum Studies, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Visual Culture
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Carter Yee

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
cyee7@uw.edu
Asian American, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies
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