People - Graduate Program Faculty | Department of English

Robert Abrams

Professor Emeritus

rabrams@uw.edu / 206-765-0547

Office Hours: M&W: 3:25-4:25, By appointment

PDL B-406

American, Culture, Literature, Philosophy, Space/Place, Visual Culture

Chadwick Allen

Professor
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Russell F. Stark University Professor

callen3@uw.edu / 206-543-6616

Office Hours: By Appt

GRB 340

American Indian/Native American, Culture, Frontier Studies, Indigenous, Literature, Maori Literature and Culture, Oceanic, Postcolonial, US Western Literature

Anis Bawarshi

Professor
Chair
Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor

bawarshi@uw.edu / 206-543-2690

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL A-101

Genre Theory, Pedagogy, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration

Linda Bierds

Professor Emerita

lbierds@uw.edu / 206-543-9623

PDL B-406

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Contemporary World Poetry, Poetry and Poetics

David Bosworth

Professor

davidbos@uw.edu / 206-543-2682

Office Hours: Office Hours: email me to set up a phone appointment

PDL B-407

Creative Writing

Nancy Bou Ayash

Associate Professor

nbayash@uw.edu / 206-543-2612

Office Hours: Th 1:00-3:00 & by appointment

PDL A-418

Global English, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Rhetoric and Composition, Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy

Jessica Burstein

Associate Professor

jb2@uw.edu / 206-616-4181

Office Hours: W 11-1

PDL A-502

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, British, Fashion, Gender, Literature, Modernism, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Visual Culture

Eva Cherniavsky

Professor
Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture
Director of Graduate Studies

ec22@uw.edu / 206-543-6077

Office Hours: Monday 1-2 and by appt

PDL A-105

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, Postcolonial, Television

Laura Chrisman

Professor
Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English

lhc3@uw.edu / N/A

Office Hours: T: 1-2 pm (office), or by appt

PDL B-401

19th Century, 20th Century, African, Black Atlantic, British, Caribbean, Literature of Empire, Nationalism, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, South African Literature, Transnational

Stephanie Clare

Associate Professor
Director, Undergraduate Programs

sclare@uw.edu

Office Hours: TH 12:45 - 1:45 and by appointment

PDL A-419

Affect, Ecocriticism, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Philosophy, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Sexuality

Catherine Cole

Professor

colecat@uw.edu / 206-543-7045

Office Hours: By appointment on M&W 3:30-4:30PM

Padelford B435

African, Disability, Drama, Performance Studies, Theater History, Transatlantic, Transnational

David Nikki Crouse

Professor

dcrouse@uw.edu / 907-687-7755

Office Hours: T 1:30 - 300 PM

PDL B-430 & B-025 Creative Writing Director's Office

Comics, Creative Writing, Experimental, Narrative Analysis, Queer Studies

Andrew Feld

Associate Professor
Editor, Seattle Review

aefeld@uw.edu / 206-543-9865

Office Hours: M&W 1-2

PDL B-432

Poetry and Poetics

Tom Foster

Professor

tfoster@uw.edu / 206-543-8635

Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4, in person in my office; Fridays 3-4 over Zoom; and by appointment, either in person or over Zoom; email for appointments.

PDL B-424

Culture, Gender, Literature, Science and Technology, Science Fiction

John Griffith

Associate Professor

jgriff@uw.edu / 206-543-2179

Office Hours: by appointment

PDL A-507

American, Bible Studies, Literature

Gary Handwerk

Professor

handwerk@uw.edu / 206-543-2183

Office Hours: by appointment only

A402

19th Century, 20th Century, Environment, Literature, Narrative Analysis, Romanticism

Gillian Harkins

Professor

gharkins@uw.edu

Office Hours: T/Th 1:00-2:00 or by appointment

PDL A-504

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Law, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, Queer Studies

Habiba Ibrahim

Professor
Associate Chair

hibrahim@uw.edu

Office Hours: T & Th | 10:00 - 11:00AM & by appointment

PDL A-304

20th Century, 21st Century, African American, Critical Theory, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Literary Criticism, Literature

Professor Ishii, photographed against that Seattle grey

Douglas Ishii

Assistant Professor

dsishii@uw.edu

Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30 and by appointment

PDL B-419

20th Century, 21st Century, Asian American, Gender, Media Studies, Music, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Sydney Kaplan

Professor Emerita

sydneyk@uw.edu / 206-685-1538

Office Hours: on line by appointment

PDL A-302

20th Century, 21st Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, British, D.H. Lawrence, English, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Katherine Mansfield, Literature, Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Women Writers

Monika Kaup

Professor

mkaup@uw.edu / 206-543-7989

Office Hours: Winter 2024: Wed 3:30 - 4:30 pm (remote), and by appointment

PDL B-433

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Baroque and Neobaroque, Critical Theory, Culture, Latino/a Studies, Literature, Modernism, Transamerican

Richard Kenney

Professor
Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing

rk@uw.edu / 360 379 1446

Office Hours: Tuesdays, noon to one, and by appointment. In Rome SQ

PDL B-437

Poetry and Poetics

Stephanie Kerschbaum

Professor
Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

kersch@uw.edu

Office Hours: SP24: MW 1-2 p.m. and by appointment

Padelford A-11F

Access and Inclusion, Disability, Expository Writing, Narrative Analysis, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Sociolinguistics, Writing Pedagogy

Jeffrey Todd Knight

Associate Professor

jtknight@uw.edu

PDL A-417

16th Century, 17th Century, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Digital Humanities, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Textual Studies

Charles LaPorte

Professor

laporte@uw.edu / 206-543-7881

PDL A-508

19th Century, Genre Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Religion and Literature, Romanticism, Shakespeare

Colette Moore

Associate Professor

cvmoore@uw.edu / 206-543-2182

Office Hours: MW 4:30-5 in Padelford; T 1-2 on Zoom (email me for the zoom link)

PDL B-421

English, History of the English Language, Language, Linguistics, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Sociolinguistics

Suhanthie Motha

Associate Professor

smotha@uw.edu / smotha@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL A-413

Applied Linguistics, Critical Race Theory, Education, Global English, Language Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Leila Kate Norako

Assistant Professor

lknorako@uw.edu

PDL A-309

British, Digital Humanities, Ecocriticism, English, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies

Rae Paris

Associate Professor

parisr@uw.edu / (206) 543-2274

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B436

Anna Preus

Assistant Professor

apreus@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tue: 1-2 [virtual: email for link] or by appointment

PDL B-426

20th Century, Digital Humanities, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial, Textual Studies

Candice Rai

Associate Professor

crai@uw.edu / 206-543-0758

Office Hours: On Leave. Email for an appointment.

PDL A-401

Affect, Material Rhetorics, Public Scholarship, Publics/Public Spheres, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Space/Place, Urban Studies, Writing Pedagogy

Brian Reed

Professor
Divisional Dean of Humanities
Milliman Endowed Chair in the Humanities

bmreed@uw.edu / (206) 685-9969

Office Hours: By appointment

CMU 50

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Australasia, Comparative Literature, Experimental, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Paul Remley

Professor

remley@uw.edu / 206-543-6357

Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:30 & By Appointment

PDL A-412

Literature, Old English

Janelle Rodriques

Assistant Professor

jar0118@uw.edu

PDL B-405

Cristina Sánchez-Martín

Assistant Professor

csanch2@uw.edu

Applied Linguistics, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Multilingualism, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy

Priti Sandhu

Associate Professor

sandhu28@uw.edu / 206-543-4233

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B-425

Applied Linguistics, Autoethnography, Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Gender, Interview-based Research, Language Pedagogy, Medium of Education, Multilingualism, Narrative Analysis, Research Methods, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Juliet Shields

Professor

js37@uw.edu / 206-543-2636

Office Hours: M&W 1:15-2:15 or by appointment

PDL A501

18th Century, 19th Century, Diaspora Studies, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Romanticism, Transnational, Women Writers

Maya Sonenberg

Professor

mayas@uw.edu / 206-543-4264

Office Hours: M 12-1, W 3-4 and by appointment

Padelford B-431

20th Century, 21st Century, Creative Writing, Literature, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Women Writers

Henry Staten

Professor
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

hstaten@uw.edu / 206-779-1098

Office Hours: M-W 10-11

PDL B-409

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

William Streitberger

Professor

streitwr@uw.edu / 206-685-9893

Office Hours: TuTh 11:30

PDL A-510

16th Century, 17th Century, British, Drama, History, Literature, Shakespeare, Textual Theory and Practice, World Drama

Jesse Oak Taylor

Associate Professor

jot8@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 1-2

PDL A-408

19th Century, British, Climate change, Conservation, Culture, Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Science and Technology, the Anthropocene

Pimone Triplett

Professor

ptrip@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment (please just email to schedule)

PDL A-416

Asian American, Creative Writing, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literary Criticism, Poetry and Poetics, Race and Ethnicity

Josephine Walwema

Associate Teaching Professor

walwema@uw.edu

Office Hours: MW 9:30 -10:30

PDL A-G11

and Scientific Communication; Business Writing. Ethics of Access and Inclusion, Professional, Rhetorical Theory, Technical

John Webster

Associate Professor

cicero@uw.edu / 206-784-3504

PDL A-407

16th Century, 17th Century, 19th Century, Drama, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Renaissance, Rhetoric and Composition, Romanticism

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Professor

alysw@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment; drop in T/Th 2:30-3

PDL B-408

African American, Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Transatlantic

Shawn Wong

Professor
Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

homebase@uw.edu / 206-616-0941

Office Hours: T & Th 11-12 and by appointment on zoom M-F

PDL B-423

Asian American, Creative Writing

Kathleen Woodward

Professor
Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

kw1@uw.edu / 206-543-3920

Office Hours: BY Appt

COMM 206

20th Century, Aging, American, Culture, Discourses of the Emotions, Literature, Science and Technology