People - Graduate Students & TAs | Department of English

Dorian Alexander

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

Virtual

American Studies, Comics, Game Studies, Gender, History, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Revolutionary Imaginaries, Sexuality, Speculative Fiction

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Jennie Baker

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Student
Assistant Director, UW in the High Schools

jenba@uw.edu

21st Century, Decolonial, Disability, Pedagogy, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction

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Olive Brend

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

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: W 10:30-12:30 (Spring 2024)

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

BrittNEY Frantece

Graduate Student

britfran@uw.edu

21st Century, African American, Experimental, Film/Cinema, Literary Criticism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Science Fiction, Visual Culture

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Missy González-Garduño

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

mimgonz@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tu & Thu 11:50 - 12:50

PDL B-026

20th Century, 21st Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Latino/a Studies, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, woman of color feminism

Simon Graham

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

sgraha@uw.edu

PDL B-25

Ecocriticism, Environment, Experimental, Gender, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Queer Studies

Reginald Kent

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

regkent@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW: 9.00am-10.00am

PDL B30

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

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Kaitlyn Kretsinger-Dunham

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

kaitkret@uw.edu

Padelford Hall B5J

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Disability, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Medical Humanities, Novel/Prose Fiction, Queer Studies, Sexuality

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Natalie Lu

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

nshih95@uw.edu

Office Hours: M&W 9AM-10AM or by appointment

SAV 417

Critical Race Theory, Drama, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Literary Criticism, Queer Studies, Women Writers

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Sanjana Ramesh

Graduate Student

srr428@uw.edu

PDL B25

Bilingualism, Creative Writing, Culture, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place, Speculative Fiction, Transnational

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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Rachael Walker

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

walkerrm@uw.edu

Office Hours: TTH 12:30 - 1:30

PDL B-25

Creative Writing, Experimental, Gender, Latino/a Studies, Music, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Sexuality

Edwin Williamson

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor

eowill@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tu/Th: 11-12PM

PDL B-25

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

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Carter Yee

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor

cyee7@uw.edu

Asian American, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies