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: T 10:30-12 and by appointment
PDL B404
21st Century, Decolonial, Disability, Pedagogy, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction
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Braden Bomgaars

Graduate Student
Predoctoral instructor
bradenlb@uw.edu
Office Hours: M & W 1-2PM: Savery Building Suite 417; Zoom by Request
20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Theory, Diaspora Studies, Environment, Indigenous, Political Science, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, U.S. Social Movements
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Anne Duncan

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
aduncan1@uw.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12:15-1:15 PM
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, History, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity

Kathleen Escarcha

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
Anglophone Filipino Literature, Archives, Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transpacific
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Angel Garduno

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
agardu@uw.edu
Office Hours: W 10:00am - 12:00pm (Zoom)
ART 353
20th Century, 21st Century, Chicanx, Culture, Film/Cinema, Gender, Latinx Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Visual Culture
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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
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Yixuan Jiang

Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
yixuanj@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appt
PDL B5-E; Ackerley 106 (summer)
18th Century, 19th Century, British, Creative Writing, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology
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Marlee Kelly

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor
mmk63@uw.edu
Office Hours: Monday, 12:45pm-2:45pm
PDL B5M
American Indian/Native American, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial, Indigenous, Literature, Race and Ethnicity
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Furkan Sevket Kir

Assistant Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
furkan@uw.edu
A-11-A
Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English Medium Instruction, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Race and Ethnicity, Sociolinguistics, Sociology of Education, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Michelle Magnero

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor
mmagnero@uw.edu
Office Hours: MW 12:30- 1:30
PDL B12
African American, Decolonial, Global Studies, Latin American, Multilingualism, Popular Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Television, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Writing Pedagogy

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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Remy Sumida-Tate

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor
rstate@uw.edu
Office Hours: TTh 9AM–10AM (Fall 2025)
Padelford B5D
Digital Humanities, Game Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science Fiction
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Melissa Texidor

Graduate Student
Pre-doctoral Instructor
Assistant Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
mtexid@uw.edu
Office Hours: T 10:20-11:20 am and Th 10:20-11:20 am
PDL A-11 A
Bilingualism, Critical Race Theory, Culture, Latino/a Studies, Multilingualism, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory
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