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ROBERT E. ABRAMS, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1973, Indiana
rabrams@u.washington.edu
American literature, Marxism, psychoanalysis, iconology, cultural constructions of landscape
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Articles on nineteenth-century American authors in such journals as ELH, American Literature, Philological Quarterly, TSLL.
Working on a book on shifting cultural constructions of landscape and space
in the antebellum United States, with some attention to the lithograph, the
tourist guide, photography, and the map, and with special focus on such authors
as Douglass, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, and Rebecca Harding Davis.
EDWARD ALEXANDER, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1963, Minnesota
eaengl@u.washington.edu
Romantic and Victorian literature, Jewish studies
CAROLYN J. ALLEN, Professor
Ph.D. 1972, Minnesota
callen@u.washington.edu
Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture; Women Writers; Theories of Affect; Theories of Gender and Sexuality
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Recent Publications and Scholarly Activities: (book) Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Editor, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, "Feminism and Postmodernism," in Tracing Literary Theory, ed. J. Natoli; "The Erotics of Nora's Narrative in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood" in Signs
(Fall, 1993) additional current interests: intersections of race, ethnicity
and gender, relationship of film theory to literary theory.
ANIS BAWARSHI, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1999, Kansas
bawarshi@u.washington.edu
Rhetoric and Composition Studies; Genre Theory; Rhetorical Invention and the Writer; Writing in the Disciplines; Writing Center Theory; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Publications include articles on the function of genre in non-literary and
literary (con)texts; genres as rhetorical ecosystems; theories of the self
in composition studies; postcolonialism and the idea of the writing
center; and rhetoric, diciplinarity and the future of writing instruction.
Currently completing a book manuscript on genre, invention, and the role
of the writer, as well as collaborating on a writing textbook, Scenes of
Writing.
LINDA L. BIERDS, Professor
M.A. 1971, Washington
lbierds@u.washington.edu
Contemporary American poetry, poetry writing
KATHLEEN A. BLAKE, Professor
Ph.D. 1971, California-San Diego
kblake@u.washington.edu
Victorian literature, historicist approach; including women and literature; utilitarianism; Victorian literature and empire; 19th-C. novel and narrative theory; Victorian-Romantic literature; 19th-C. English-German literature; children's literature.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Play, Games, and Sport, The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll, Love and
the Woman Question in Victorian Literature, The Art of Self-Postponement,
Approaches to Teaching George Eliot's Middlemarch. Current interest
in Victorian literature and political economy, with relations to the woman
question and to empire.
HERBERT BLAU, Professor
Ph.D. 1954, Stanford
hblau@u.washington.edu
drama and performance; modern and postmodern literature; literary and cultural theory; backgrounds of modernism and traditions of the avant-garde
Most Recent Books / Current Research Activities:
The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000.
Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett.
Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion.
To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance.
The Audience. recent essays on theater, Beckett, Shakespeare, body art and performance art, photography, fashion.
DAVID BOSWORTH, Associate Professor
B.A. 1969, Brown
davidbos@u.washington.edu
Fiction writing, modern fiction and poetry
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
The Death of Descartes, a collection of short fiction; From My Father, Singing, a novel; two novels, stories, poetry in progress
GERALD J. BRENNER, Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1969, New Mexico
brenner@u.washington.edu
Modern American and English Novel; Robert Frost and Henry James; Fiction of the American West; the 19th Century Novel; peer tutoring and the instruction of writing; reader-response theory
MARSHALL BROWN, Professor
Ph.D. 1972, Yale
mbrown@u.washington.edu
Eighteenth century, romanticism, realism, literary theory, music and literature, philosophy and literature
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
The Shape of German Romanticism (Cornell, 1979); Preromanticism Stanford, 1991); Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions (Stanford, 1997); co-editor La Via al sublime (Alinea, 1987); articles in PMLA, Critical
Inquiry, ELH, JEGP, Studies in Romanticism, Comparative Literature, German
Quarterly, Studi di estetica, Italian Quarterly, Stanford Literature Review,
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and elsewhere. Working on books on Philosophy of the Gothic. Editor, Modern Language Quarterly. Editor, The Uses of Literary History (Duke, 1996)
BRUCE BURGETT, Professor
Ph.D. 1993, University of California-Berkeley
burgett@u.washington.edu
American studies, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity, gender and queer studies, transnationalism, critical race studies, sentimentalism, public scholarship and public humanities
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic (Princeton UP);
Keywords of American Cultural Studies (NYU Press); "Between Population and Speculation:
The Problem of 'Sex' in Our Long Eighteenth Century," Early
American Literature 36,1 (2002), 119-153. "On the Mormon Question: Race, Sex, and Polygamy
in the U.S. 1850s and 1990s," American Quarterly 56, 1 (March 2005), 75-102.
Current book projects: American Sex: Cultures of Sexual Reform in and beyond the Antebellum
United States (University of Chicago Press); New Formations of Cultural Studies.
Co-Director of the Cultural Studies Praxis Collective and the U.W. Simpson
Center for the Humanities and the US Cultural Studies Association; Vice Chair of the National
Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life..
JESSICA BURSTEIN, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1998, Chicago
jb2@u.washington.edu
Modern British and American literature, late 19th Century British Literature
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
"Waspish Segments: Lewis, Prosthesis, Fascism," Modernism/Modernity 4:2 (April
1997): 139–64; special issue on Wyndham Lewis. Currently working on modernism
and fashion -- Coco Chanel; Modernism and the prosthetic body
JOSEPH M. BUTWIN, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1971, Harvard
joeyb@u.washington.edu
Nineteenth-century England, history and literature, politics and popular culture, the novel
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Book in progress on the politics of popular culture in nineteenth-century
England--includes and extends previous studies of Dickens, George Eliot,
Carlyle, and Ruskin
EVA CHERNIAVSKY, Professor
Ph.D. 1990, California-Berkeley
ec22@u.washington.edu
18th-, 19th-, 20th-century U.S. literatures; American studies, post-colonial studies; feminist theory, critical theories of race and ethnicity
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital (forthcoming).
LAURA CHRISMAN, Professor
D.Phil., 1992, Oxford
lhc3@u.washington.edu
African and African diaspora studies, postcolonial studies and theory, South African literature, 19th and 20th century British literature
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research
Activities:
Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race,
Imperialism, and Transnationalism
(2003).
http://faculty.washington.edu/lhc3
JOHN C. COLDEWEY, Professor
Ph.D. 1972, Colorado
jcjc@u.washington.edu
Medieval and Renaissance drama, neo-Latin drama, scholarly editing, Chaucer, Shakespeare
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Cultural and historical contexts and records of early English drama (from the 15th century through 1642).
http://faculty.washington.edu/jcjc
KATHERINE CUMMINGS, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1985, Wisconsin-Madison
ckate@u.washington.edu
Feminist theory, Postmodernism (theories and fictions), Postcolonialism, cultural studies, American studies (Contemporary), Queer studies.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Telling Tales: The Daughter's Seduction in Fiction and Theory. Book in progress: In the Family Name: Reading "Home" & "Exile" in Late 20th C. U.S.
Essays on such subjects as: AIDS, Sexuality, Queer studies, Contemporary
Ethnic Literatures, Pedagogy, Freud, Derrida, Dickens and Richardson.
GEORGE L. DILLON, Professor
Ph.D. l969, California-Berkeley
dillon@u.washington.edu
Rhetoric and composition, linguistics, discourse analysis
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon
RICHARD J. DUNN, Professor
Ph.D. 1964, Western Reserve
dickd@u.washington.edu
The novel, Victorian literature and painting, Dickens, English teaching, textual studies
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Articles on Dickens, the Brontes, Carlyle, Tennyson, Smollett; English Pedagogy. Book: Oliver Twist: Whole Heart and Soul. Bibliographic volumes on Dickens, the English novel; Norton Critical Editions of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights. Editor Approaches to Teaching Dickens' David Copperfield.
THOMAS FOSTER, Professor
Ph.D. 1990, Wisconsin-Madison
tfoster@u.washington.edu
Contemporary American literature and popular culture; technoculture studies and posthumanism, especially issues of gender, sexuality, race, and citizenship; British and American modernism (fiction and poetry).
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory (2005). Working on a book
tentatively entitled Ethnicity and Technicity: Nature, Culture, and Race in the
Cyberpunk Archive
CHARLES H. FREY, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1971, Yale
cfrey@u.washington.edu
Shakespeare, modern drama, theories of response (audiences, readers)
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Interpretation of Shakespeare; psychosomatic response to literature; theory of teaching.
E. LAURIE GEORGE, Senior Lecturer, Humanities Faculty Liaison, Computer Integrated Courses
Ph.D. 1984, Oregon
elgeorge@u.washington.edu
Late modern and contemporary American and British literatures; Visual literacy and cultural communication in the digital age; Rhetoric of digital narratives
JOHN W. GRIFFITH, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1969, Oregon
jgriff@u.washington.edu
American literature (all periods), the Bible as literature, children's literature
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Essays on William Bradford, Jonathon Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman,
H.W. Longfellow, Henry James, Archibald MacLeish, Stephen Vincent Benet,
Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud; and, in children's literature, on Hans
Christian Andersen, E.B. White, James Barrie, Carlo Collodi
JUAN C. GUERRA, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1992, Illinois-Chicago
jguerra@u.washington.edu
Literacy, Ethnography, Composition, Autobiography
NICHOLAS HALMI, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1995, Toronto
nh2@u.washington.edu
Enlightenment and Romantic literature, philosophy, and science; critical theory, history of criticism; architectural history; synecdoche
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Articles on Enlightenment and Romantic topics in Comparative Literature,
The Coleridge Bulletin, Dreaming: J. Am. Soc. Study of Dreams, European
Romantic Review, Lingua Humanitatis, Romanticism on the Net, The
Wordsworth Circle, and the Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era (Routledge,
2004). Co-editor of Coleridge's Opus Maximum (Princeton, 2002),
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition, 2003); editor of
Frye's Fearful Symmetry (Toronto, forthcoming 2004). Current research:
Romantic concept of the symbol, 19th-Century German architectural theory,
semiotics of circumcision.
http://faculty.washington.edu/nh2
GARY HANDWERK, Professor
Ph.D. 1984, Brown
handwerk@u.washington.edu
Literary theory, especially Romantic and post-Romantic. Comparative literature: German, French, classical Greek. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative, narrative theory
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Joyce, Meredith, Lacan, Beckett, Godwin, Romantic Irony, 19th-century fiction/history.
GILLIAN HARKINS, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2002, California-Berkeley
gharkins@u.washington.edu
Late twentieth-century United States literature and culture. Additional research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary American Literature, theories of the novel, feminist, queer and critical race theory, psychoanalysis, and citizenship.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).
JEANNE HEUVING, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1988, Washington
jheuving@u.washington.edu
Twentieth century poetry and poetics; avant garde texts; modernism and postmodernism; cultural studies; women writers; critical theory and feminist theory; American literature.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Current book project: Restive Eros: Poetic Possession and Dispossession in the Twentieth Century.
Previous publications include Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore, 1992;
"Feminism and Sexuality," "Laura (Riding) Jackson's 'Really New' Poem;" "Poetry in Our Political
Lives," and "The Violence of Negation or 'Love's Infolding.'" On the editorial board of the
electronic journal HOW2, dedicated to critical and creative explorations of innovative writing.
Habiba IBRAHIM,
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2005, State University of New York-Albany
hibrahim@u.washington.edu
20th century African American literary studies, black feminist theory, critical theories of race and ethnicity
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
"Canary in a Coal Mine: Performing Biracial 'Difference' in Caucasia," LIT: Literature
Interpretation Theory 18:2 (2007), 155-172.
SUSAN JEFFORDS, Professor
Ph.D. 1981, Pennsylvania
jeffords@u.washington.edu
Feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, militarism
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War. Hard Bodies:
Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era; Seeing through the Media: The Persian
Gulf War (ed.) Currently working on a book on rape and U.S. national identity
CHARLES R. JOHNSON, Professor
M.A. 1973, Southern Illinois
chasjohn@u.washington.edu
Fiction writing
SYDNEY J. KAPLAN, Professor
Ph.D. 1971, UCLA
sydneyk@u.washington.edu
Twentieth-century British and American literature, women writers and feminist criticism
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction, Feminine Consciousness in the Modern British Novel,
articles on Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair, Doris Lessing, Rosamond
Lehmann, Katherine Mansfield; surveys of recent feminist criticism. Current
research on book, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield: A Critical Dialogue
MONIKA KAUP, Assistant Professor
D.Phil. 1991, Ruhr University, Germany
D.Phil.Habil. 1998, Osnabrueck University, Germany
mkaup@u.washington.edu
U.S. Latino/a literature; comparative literature of the Americas and transamerican literary and cultural studies; U.S. modernism; 20th century women writers; the domestic and the urban
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Co-editor, Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues, 2002. Rewriting
North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative, 2001. Mad Intertextuality: Madness in Twentieth-Century Women's Writing, 1993; Articles in American Literature ("The Architecture of Ethnicity in Chicano Literature") and Discourse
("'Our America' That is Not One: Transnational Black Atlantic Disclosures
in Nicolas Guillen and Langston Hughes"); further articles in collections
(on Chicano/a literature, Canadian Metis literature, West Indian Canadian
writing); currently working on the New World baroque/neobaroque.
RICHARD L. KENNEY, Professor
B.A., 1970, Dartmouth
rk@u.washington.edu
Poetry writing
ERIC LA GUARDIA, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1961, Iowa
ehl@u.washington.edu
Renaissance literature, modern literature, literary theory
CHARLES LAPORTE, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2004, Michigan
laporte@u.washington.edu
Nineteenth-century English and French poetry, Victorian novels and non-fiction prose, Continental philosophy and hermeneutics, the Bible as literature, genre theory.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Articles on Mathilde Blind, Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, William Morris,
Constance Naden, and nineteenth-century ideas of Shakespeare. Coeditor, with Jason R. Rudy,
of Spasmodic Poetics, a Special Issue of Victorian Poetry
THOMAS F. LOCKWOOD, Professor
Ph.D., 1967, Rice
tlock@u.washington.edu
Eighteenth-century novel, especially Fielding; English poetry from Dryden to Wordsworth; essays and journalism in the eighteenth century
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Henry Fielding; The Critical Heritage (with Ronald Paulson); Post-Augustan Satire;
articles on eighteenth-century verse, Swift, Fielding, Jane Austen, satire
and comedy, journalism; attribution and edition of Fielding's magazine The History of Our Own Times. Current work: critical book on Fielding; editor of drama volumes for Wesleyan-Oxford ed. of Fielding's works
COLLEEN MC ELROY, Professor
Ph.D. 1973, Washington
dragnldy@u.washington.edu
Creative writing, poetry and fiction, women's literature, mythology (Third World), Black literature, children's literature
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Collections of poetry, latest: What Madness Brought Me Here: New & Selected Poems l968-88 (Wesleyan Univ. Press, l990); Driving Under the Cardboard Pines (Fiction) (Creative Arts Books, 1990).
http://faculty.washington.edu/dragnldy/poet.html
HEATHER MC HUGH, Professor
M.A. 1972, Denver
hmch@earthlink.net
Poetry writing, Poetry in English and translation, Beckett, Nabokov, Kafka, Chekhov, contemporary visual and musical arts, film, the literary essay, natural sciences and the history of ideas
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Collections of poetry, translation; close readings in poetry; literary essays
RAIMONDA MODIANO, Professor
Ph.D. 1973, California-San Diego
modiano@u.washington.edu
The Romantic period, science and philosophy in the nineteenth century, 19th century aesthetics; anthropology and social theory
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Coleridge and the Concept of Nature (London: MacMillan, 1985) Co-editor vols. II-V of Coleridge's Marginalia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980). Currently writing a book on Coleridge and Wordsworth; Sacrifice, The Gift and the Rites of Literary Exchange; and editing Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions).
COLETTE MOORE, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2004, Michigan
cvmoore@u.washington.edu
History of the English language, language and gender, language and community, manuscript/print culture, medieval/early modern paleography, Chaucer, late medieval literature, medieval women, college writing.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
"Writing good Southerne: Local and Supralocal Norms in the Plumpton Letter
Collection," Language Variation and Change 14 (2002).
SUHANTHIE MOTHA, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2004, Maryland
smotha@u.washington.edu
TESOL, critical applied linguistics, social identity, teacher knowledge, race and racialization, anticolonial epistemologies in English language teaching.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
"Articles in TESOL Quarterly, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Modern Language Journal,
Language Teaching, Peace and Change Journal, Educational Practice and Theory, in addition to
several book chapters. Currently working on a book manuscript theorizing the intersections of racial
and linguistic identities in the context of English language teaching.
MARK R. PATTERSON, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1981, Princeton
mpat@u.washington.edu
American literature, particularly post-Reconstruction theories of race, nation, and domesticity. Theories of the Everyday, American Gothic. Thoreau and Transcendentalism, law and literature
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature (Princeton Univ. Press, 1988); Editor, Henry D. Thoreau, Journal 3:1848-51;
Currently working on the intersections of law, literature, gender, and race
in Reconstruction and late nineteenth century America.
CHANDAN REDDY, Assistant Professor
M.Phil. 1998, Columbia
ccreddy@u.washington.edu
Multi-ethnic literature, twentieth-century American literature, American studies, critical race theory, globalization, queer theory, feminism, transnational cultural studies
BRIAN M. REED, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2000, Stanford
bmreed@u.washington.edu
Twentieth-century American and English poetry; modernism; post-modernism; the avante-garde; post-Civil war American literature
http://faculty.washington.edu/bmreed/
PAUL G. REMLEY, Professor
Ph.D. 1990, Columbia
remley@u.washington.edu
Medieval literature and languages (primarily Germanic and Celtic texts of the early Middle Ages and contemporary Latin sources); historical and social background of medieval literature; textual criticism; new methods of scholarly research (computerized databases, electronic texts, etc.)
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Books in progress on Old English biblical poetry and Cynewulf's Christ II. Publications on the Anglo-Saxon text of Genesis, Middle English antifeminist literature, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain. Current projects involving Layamon's Brut (Arthurian natural imagery), Chaucer (some fragments of Troilus and Criseyde), Christine de Pizan (her treatment of the Dido myth), and some anonymous poems written by women at the court of Henry VIII.
LEROY F. SEARLE, Professor
Ph.D. 1970, Iowa
lsearle@u.washington.edu
Critical theory, American literature, modern literature, intellectual history, photography, aesthetics, history of science, computers
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Critical theory, photographic criticism, intellectual history
DAVID SHIELDS, Professor
M.F.A. 1980, Iowa
dshields@u.washington.edu
Fiction, autobiography, creative nonfiction
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
David Shields is the author of four books of nonfiction, Enough About You:
Adventures in Autobiography, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
(a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Remote (winner of
the PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship), and "Baseball Is Just Baseball": The
Understated Ichiro; two novels, Dead Languages and Heroes; and a collection
of linked stories, A Handbook for Drowning. His essays and stories have
appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, McSweeney's,
Salon, Village Voice, Utne Reader, Threepenny Review, and Conjunctions. He
has received two NEA fellowships in fiction, two PEN Syndicated Fiction
Awards, and an Ingram-Merrill Foundation award.
ROBERT P. SHULMAN, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1959, Ohio State
rshulman@u.washington.edu
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American fiction, social and political theory
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions, 1987. Current project: Political Art and the Politics of the Literary Canon: The 1930s Left Reconsidered
SANDRA SILBERSTEIN, Professor
Ph.D. 1982, Michigan
tq@u.washington.edu
Discourse analysis/sociolinguistics, language acquisition, social theory
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Choice Readings (University of Michigan Press, 1996); State of the Art TESOL Essays: Celebrating 25 years of the Discipline (TESOL, 1993); Techniques and Resources in Teaching Reading (Oxford University Press, 1994); Reader's Choice (co-authored, University of Michigan Press, 1988); Bibliography: Women and Language
(monograph, University of Michigan Women's Studies, 1980); Research Project:
"Reading-Writing Relationships in First and Second Language"; Interactive Reading Theories, manuscript
CAROLINE CHUNG SIMPSON, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1994, Texas
csimpson@u.washington.edu
Asian American literature; Ethnic American literature; Oral history; Feminist theory; cultural studies.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Essays on postwar Asian American fiction, multiracial Asian American identity
and Asian American women's oral history. Current work on the rise of American
Orientalism in American popular culture during the postwar era.
MAYA SONENBERG, Associate Professor
M.A. 1984, Brown
mayas@u.washington.edu
Fiction writing, Twentieth century fiction
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Cartographies, a collection of short fiction; a novel and a collection of stories in progress
HENRY STATEN, Professor
Ph.D. 1978, Texas
hstaten@u.washington.edu
19th and 20th Century British Literature; History and Theory of Criticism; Race, Nationality and Ethnicity
ROBERT D. STEVICK, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1956, Wisconsin
stevickr@u.washington.edu
Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature, English language history
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Essays and monographs on Old English meter, poetic form, manuscript studies.
Current research on relations of principles of form in Anglo-Saxon manuscript
paintings and long poems, and prosodic phonology
WILLIAM R. STREITBERGER, Professor
Ph.D. 1973, Illinois
streitwr@u.washington.edu
Renaissance literature, drama, and culture, textual criticism, paleography
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Articles on Renaissance literature, drama, and culture (1972-Present); Court Revels, 1485-1559 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994); Topographical Descriptions, Regiments, and Policies (New York: Garland, 1991); Jacobean and Caroline Revels Accounts, 1603-1642, Malone Society Collections XIII (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986); Edmond Tyllney, Master of the Revels and Censor of Plays (New York: AMS, 1986); Elizabethan Revels, 1558-1603
(in progress). Current interests: Renaissance court culture, spectacles,
entertainments, and politics; literature/drama in its cultural context; archival
research; textual theory and practice.
GAIL STYGALL, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1989, Indiana
stygall@u.washington.edu
Composition/Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics, Law and literature and Discourse Analysis.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Trial Language: Differential Discourse Processing and Discursive Formation (Benjamins, 1994), Co-Editor; New Directions in Portfolio Assessment. Current projects: The Discourse of Divorce, Editor CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1995-1997 Volumes.
http://faculty.washington.edu/stygall/
STEPHEN SUMIDA, Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. 1982, University of Washington
sumida@u.washington.edu
Asian American literature; ethnic studies
JAMES W. TOLLEFSON, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1978, Stanford
tollefso@u.washington.edu
Language policy and language planning, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Current research: language policy and social theory
MÍCEÁL F. VAUGHAN, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1973, Cornell
miceal@u.washington.edu
Medieval literature, esp. Chaucer and Chaucerians; textual criticism; modern Anglo-Irish literature; medieval music and poetry
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
Monograph on Piers Plowman B and the liturgy; three articles on Towneley's Second Shepherds' Play; articles on Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Summoner's Tale, on the Anglo-Norman Adam, and on the endings of both A and B Texts of Piers Plowman. Edited special issue of Modern Language Quarterly on medieval English Literature, and a book of essays on Piers Plowman.
An article forthcoming on the textual history (and problems) of Chaucer's
"Retractions," part of a book-length project on the conclusion of the Canterbury Tales. Currently also working on an electronic edition of Piers Plowman A.
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/miceal/
DAVID R. WAGONER, Professor Emeritus
M.A. 1949, Indiana
renogawd@aol.com
Poetry and fiction writing
JOHN M. WEBSTER, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1974, California-Berkeley
cicero@u.washington.edu
Renaissance literature and aesthetics, literary theory, linguistics, history and rhetoric; rhetoric and composition
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
William Temple's "Analysis" of Sidney's "Apology" (1984), The Arts of Eloquence: Logic, Rhetoric and Poetry in Elizabethan Literature (in progress)
ALYS WEINBAUM, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1998, Columbia
alysw@u.washington.edu
Modern Trans-Atlantic Literature and Culture, Feminism, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, American Studies, Transnational Cultural Studies.
Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities:
(Book) Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Trans Atlantic Modern
Thought (Duke University Press, 2004); (anthology) Next to the Color Line: W.E.B. DuBois,
Gender and Sexuality (University of Minnesota Press, 2007); and articles in Differences,
Feminist Studies, Social Text, Ariel, Science and Literature. (Current anthology project)
The Modern Girl Around the World (Duke University Press, forthcoming); and (current book
project) The New Biologic: Reproduction, Science and Fiction in Transnationalism.
SHAWN WONG, Professor
M.A. 1974, San Francisco State
homebase@u.washington.edu
Fiction writing, Asian American Literature
KATHLEEN WOODWARD, Professor
Ph.D. 1976, University of California-San Diego
kw1@u.washington.edu
American literature; women studies
