Henry Staten | Department of English | University of Washington

Professor

Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

Contact Information

hstaten@uw.edu

206-779-1098

PDL B-409

Office Hours

M 1:30-2:30; Tu 10-11

Fields of Interest

19th Century 20th Century Aesthetics British Derrida Genre Theory Literature Modernism Nietzsche Philosophy Poetry and Poetics Wittgenstein

Biography

B.A., University of Houston, 1968

Ph.D., University of Texas, 1978

Areas of Specialization

19th and 20th century British literature; philosophy and literature.

Activities and Interests

International modernism; Nietzsche; Derrida; Wittgenstein; history and theory of criticism; genre theory; aesthetics; poetics; ancient Greek philosophy.

Research

Selected Research

Courses Taught

Winter 2025

ENGL 333 A: Nineteenth-Century Novel

Autumn 2024

Spring 2024

ENGL 302 B: Critical Practice

Winter 2024

ENGL 212 A: Literature, 1700-1900

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

ENGL 329 A: Rise of the English Novel

Winter 2023

ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice

Autumn 2022

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

ENGL 202 A: Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature

Autumn 2021

ENGL 510 A: History of Literary Criticism and Theory IV

Spring 2021

Affiliations

Home Department

English

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