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Abrams, Robert (1979); Associate Professor; PhD, 1973, Indiana University; American literature. e-mail: rabrams@u.washington.edu

Alexander, Edward (1962); (Professor Emeritus). PhD, 1963, University of Minnesota; romantic and Victorian literature. e-mail: eaengl@u.washington.edu

Allen, Carolyn  (1972); Professor. PhD, 1972, University of Minnesota; twentieth-century literature, women writers, contemporary critical theory. e-mail: callen@u.washington.edu

Altieri, Joanne (1977); (Associate Professor Emerita); PhD 1969, University of North Carolina; Shakespeare, 17th-century drama, 17th-century literature more generally, drama, historical approaches.

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Bawarshi, Anis (1999); Associate Professor.  PhD 1999, Kansas; rhetoric and composition. e-mail: bawarshi@u.washington.edu

Bierds, Linda L. (1981); Professor. MA,1971, University of Washington; poetry writing; contemporary American poetry. e-mail: lbierds@u.washington.edu

Blake, Kathleen (1971); Professor. PhD, 1971, University of California (San Diego); Victorian literature, children's literature, women's studies. e-mail: kblake@u.washington.edu

Blau, Herbert (2000); Professor. PhD, 1954, Stanford. Drama and performance; modern and post-modern literature; literary and cultural theory; backgrounds of modernism and traditions of the avant-garde.  e-mail: hblau@u.washington.edu

Bosworth, David L. (1984); Associate Professor.  BA, 1969, Brown University fiction writing, modern fiction and poetry, American Puritans. e-mail: davidbos@u.washington.edu

Brenner, Gerald J. (1966); (Associate Professor Emeritus).  PhD, 1969, University of New Mexico; American literature, fiction writing. e-mail: brenner@u.washington.edu

Brown, Marshall J. (1988); Professor. PhD,1972, Yale University eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature, literary theory, music and literature. e-mail: mbrown@u.washington.edu

Butwin, Joseph M. (1978);  Associate Professor. PhD, 1971, Harvard University; Victorian literature. e-mail: joeyb@u.washington.edu

Burgett, Bruce, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell Campus.  Ph.D. 1993, University of California-Berkeley;  American studies, gender and queer studies, interdisciplinarity, transnationalism, political theory and economy, cultural studies, critical race studies, sentimentalism.  e-mail: burgett@u.washington.edu

Burns, Wayne (1948); (Profesor Emeritus); PhD, 1946, Cornell University; Victorian literature.

Burstein, Jessica (1998); Assistant Professor. PhD 1998, University of Chicago; Modern British and American literature and poetry, late 19th-century British literature. e-mail: jb2@u.washington.edu

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Cherniavsky, Eva (2005); Professor. PhD 1990, University of California (Berkeley); 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century U.S. literatures; American studies, post-colonial studies; feminist theory; critical theories of race and ethnicity. e-mail: ec22@u.washington.edu

Chrisman, Laura (2005); Professor. PhD 1992, University of Oxford; postcolonial studies; African studies; black transnational and diaspora studies; late 19thc British imperial literature; South African literature; black British literature. e-mail: lhc3@u.washington.edu

Coldewey, John C. (1972); Professor. PhD, 1972, University of Colorado (Boulder); Renaissance literature, medieval drama. Personal homepage. e-mail: jcjc@u.washington.edu

Cummings, Katherine (1985); Associate Professor. PhD, 1985, University of Wisconsin; feminist, psychoanalytical, and literary theory, modern and contemporary literature. e-mail: ckate@u.washington.edu

D, E

Dillon, George L. (1986); Professor.  PhD 1969 University of California (Berkeley); rhetoric, composition. Personal homepage. e-mail: dillon@u.washington.edu

Dunn, Richard J. (1967); Professor. PhD, 1964, Western Reserve University; Victorian literature, English novel. e-mail: dickd@u.washington.edu

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Feld, Andrew (2006); Assistant Professor. MFA 1992, University of Massachusetts; poetry writing. e-mail: aefeld@u.washington.edu

Foster, Thomas (2005); Professor; PhD 1990, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 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). e-mail: tfoster@u.washington.edu

Fowler, David C. (1952); (Professor Emeritus); PhD,1949, University of Chicago; medieval literature, comparative religion.

Frey, Charles Hubbard (1976); (Professor Emeritus);  PhD,1971, Yale University; Renaissance literature, Shakespeare. e-mail: cfrey@u.washington.edu

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George, E. Laurie (1991); Senior Lecturer.  PhD, 1984, University of Oregon; expository/computer-aided writing, American literature, feminist linguistics, pedagogy. e-mail:elgeorge@u.washington.edu

Gerstenberger, Donna (1960); (Professor Emerita); PhD,1958, University of Oklahoma; twentieth-century literature, Anglo-lrish literature, feminist criticism.

Gillis-Bridges, Kimberlee (1999); Senior Lecturer. PhD, 1999, Claremont Graduate University; interdisciplinary writing; film studies & cinema, contemporary U.S. literature, technology-based pedagogy. Personal homepage. e-mail: kgb@u.washington.edu

Graham, Joan Adelle (1974); Senior Lecturer. MA, 1972, University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing. e-mail: jbgraham@u.washington.edu

Griffith, John W. (1968); Associate Professor. PhD, 1969, University of Oregon; American literature. e-mail: jgriff@u.washington.edu

Griffith, Malcolm A. (1966); (Assistant Professor Emeritus). PhD 1966 Ohio State University; twentieth-century literature, modern criticism, American literature. e-mail: malcolmg@u.washington.edu

Guerra, Juan C. (1990); Associate Professor. PhD, 1990, University of Illinois; rhetoric and composition. e-mail: jguerra@u.washington.edu

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Halmi, Nicholas (2001); Associate Professor. PhD 1995, University of Toronto; English and German literature and philosophy of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, allegory and symbolism, Enlightenment and Romantic science (particularly psychology), psychoanalysis,  and the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Personal homepage. email: nh2@u.washington.edu

Handwerk, Gary J. (1984); Professor.  PhD, 1984, Brown University; literary theory, English and Irish nineteenth and twentieth-century narrative. e-mail:handwerk@u.washington.edu

Harkins, Gillian (2002); Assistant Professor. PhD 2002, University of California, Berkeley; modern and contemporary American literature, female novelists, autobiography, trauma, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, feminist and queer theory, citizenship. e-mail: gharkins@u.washington.edu

Heuving, Jeanne. Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell Campus. Ph.D. 1988, University of Washington.  Twentieth century poetry and poetics; avant garde texts; modernism and postmodernism;  cultural studies; women writers; critical theory and feminist theory; American literature. e-mail: jheuving@u.washington.edu

Hudson, Lois Phillips (1969); (Associate Professor Emerita); LittD, 1965, North Dakota State University; fiction writing.

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Ibrahim, Habiba (2006); Assistant Professor, PhD 2005, SUNY Albany; African American literature and culture. e-mail: hibrahim@u.washington.edu

Irmscher, William F (1960); (Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1950, Indiana University; rhetoric and theory of composition.

Jeffords, Susan E. (1985); Professor.  PhD, 1981, University of Pennsylvania; feminist theory, American popular culture, and the representation of Vietnam. e-mail: jeffords@u.washington.edu

Johnson, Charles R. (1976); Professor.  PhD, Philosophy, 1988, State University of New York at Stony Brook; fiction writing. Charles Johnson Society webpage. e-mail: chasjohn@u.washington.edu

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Kaplan, Sydney J. (1971); Professor.  PhD, 1971, University of California (Los Angeles); twentieth-century literature, women writers, feminist criticism. e-mail: sydneyk@u.washington.edu

Kaup, Monika.  (2001); Associate Professor. PhD 1991, Ruhr University, Bochun, Germany; Habilitation 1998, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany;  U.S. Latino/a literature; Comparative literature of the Americas and Transamerican literary and cultural studies; U.S. modernism; women writers (20th century); the domestic and the urban.  e-mail: mkaup@u.washington.edu

Kenney, Richard L. (1987); Professor.  BA, 1970, Dartmouth College; poetry writing. e-mail: rk@u.washington.edu

Korg, Jacob (1955); (Professor Emeritus) PhD 1952 Columbia University; Victorian, twentieth-century literature.

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LaGuardia, Eric Henry (1961); Associate Professor. PhD, 1961, University of lowa; Renaissance literature. e-mail: ehl@u.washington.edu

La Porte, Charles (2005); Assistant Professor. PhD, 2004, University of Michigan; Victorian literature.

Laufenberg, Henry (2003); Lecturer. Ph.D. 2001, University of California, Riverside; Interdisciplinary Writing, Modern American Literature, Henry Miller. e-mail: hjl3@u.washington.edu

Lockwood, Thomas Frank (1967); Professor.  PhD, 1967, Rice University; eighteenth-century literature. e-mail: tlock@u.washington.edu

Longyear, Christopher R. (1972); (Associate Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1961, University of Michigan; linguistics.

M, N

Matchett, William H. (1954); (Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1957, Harvard University; Renaissance literature, Shakespeare.

Matthews, Carrie (2008); IWP Lecturer; PhD, 2007, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

McCracken, J David  (1966); (Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1966, University of Chicago; eighteenth-century literature, romanticism, biblical literature. e-mail: davidmcc@u.washington.edu

McElroy, Colleen W. (1972); (Professor Emerita); PhD, 1973, University of Washington; Black literature, women writers, poetry writing. Personal homepage. e-mail: dragnldy@u.washington.edu

McHugh, Heather (1982); Professor.  MA,1973, University of Denver; writing and close reading of poetry, form in nature and art. Personal homepage. e-mail: amanuen@u.washington.edu

McNamara, Robert J. (1985); Senior Lecturer. PhD, 1985, University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing. Personal homepage. e-mail:  rmcnamar@u.washington.edu

Modiano, Raimonda (1978); Professor.  PhD, 1973, University of California (San Diego); romanticism. e-mail: modiano@u.washington.edu

Moore, Colette (2005); Assistant Professor. PhD, 2004, University of Michigan; language study.

Motha, Suhanthie (2008); Assistant Professor; PhD, 2004, University of Maryland.

Mussetter, Sally Ann (1978); (Associate Professor Emerita); PhD, 1975, Cornell University; medieval language and literature. Personal webpage. e-mail: mussette@u.washington.edu

O, P, Q

O'Neill, John (1999); Lecturer.  MA, 1986, University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing. e-mail: joneill@u.washington.edu

Palomo, Dolores J. (1971); (Associate Professor Emerita); PhD, 1972, State University of New York (Buffalo); Rennaissance literature, women writers.

Patterson, Mark R. (1981); Associate Professor. PhD, 1981, Princeton University; American literature. e-mail: mpat@u.washington.edu

Popov, Nikolai  (1995); Senior Lecturer. PhD, 1994, University of Washington; modern poetry and fiction, modern Anglo-Irish literature, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan. e-mail: nikolai_popov@hotmail.com

R

Rai, Candace  (2008); Assistant Professor. PhD, 2008, University of Illinois at Chicago. email: crai@u.washington.edu

Reddy, Chandan  (2001); Assistant Professor. PhD 2001, Columbia University; multi-ethnic literature, 20th-century American literature, American studies, cross-cultural queer studies, critical race theory, globalization, queer theory, feminism, transnational cultural studies. email: ccreddy@u.washington.edu

Reed, Brian M (2000); Associate Professor. PhD Stanford; 20th-century American and English poetry; modernism; post-modernism; the avant-garde; post-Civil War American literature. Personal homepage. e-mail:bmreed@u.washington.edu

Reinert, Otto (1956); (Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1952, Yale University; comparative literature, eighteenth-century literature.

Remley, Paul G. (1988); Professor.  PhD, 1990, Columbia University; Old and Middle English, medieval languages and literatures, critical theory. Complete vita. e-mail: remley@u.washington.edu

Russ, Joanna (1977); (Professor Emerita); MFA, 1960, Yale University; fiction writing.

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Sale, Roger H. (1962); (Professor Emeritus);  PhD, 1957, Cornell University; Renaissance literature. e-mail: sale@u.washington.edu

Searle, Leroy F. (1977); Professor. PhD, 1970, University of lowa; twentieth-century literature, critical theory, American studies. e-mail: lsearle@u.washington.edu

Shields, David (1988); Professor.  MFA, 1980, University of lowa; creative non-fiction writing, fiction writing, screenwriting, contemporary literature. Personal homepage. e-mail: dshields@u.washington.edu

Shulman, Robert (1961); (Professor Emeritus); PhD,1959, Ohio State University; American literature. e-mail: rshulman@u.washington.edu

Silberstein, Sandra V. (1982); Professor.  PhD, 1982, University of Michigan; TESL, critical theory, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language and culture. e-mail: tq@u.washington.edu

Simmons-O'Neill, Elizabeth (1985); Senior Lecturer. PhD, 1988 University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing, service learning, education and tutoring. Personal homepage. e-mail: esoneill@u.washington.edu

Simonson, Harold P. (1967), (Professor Emeritus), PhD, 1958 Northwestern University; American literature.

Simpson, Caroline Chung (1994); Associate Professor. PhD 1994, University of Texas; Asian-American literature and culture. e-mail: csimpson@u.washington.edu

Smith, Eugene H. (1958); (Associate Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1963, University of Washington; rhetoric and theory of composition.

Sonenberg, Maya (1993); Associate Professor. MA 1984, Brown University; fiction writing, twentieth-century fiction, postmodern fiction, women writers. e-mail: mayas@u.washington.edu

Stanton, Robert B. (1956); (Associate Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1953, Indiana University; American literature.

Staten, Henry (1998); Professor.  PhD 1978, University of Texas. history and theory of criticism, 19th- and 20th-century British literature, race, nationality and ethnicity. e-mail: hstaten@u.washington.edu

Stevick, Robert D. (1962); (Professor Emeritus); PhD, 1956, University of Wisconsin; medieval language and literature. e-mail: stevickr@u.washington.edu

Streitberger,William R. (1973);  Professor.  PhD 1973 University of Illinois; Renaissance literature, textual criticism, paleography. e-mail: streitwr@u.washington.edu

Stygall, Gail (1990); Professor. PhD, 1989, Indiana University; rhetoric and composition, English language linguistics, law and literature. Personal homepage. e-mail: stygall@u.washington.edu

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Taranath, Anu (2001); Senior Lecturer.  Ph.D. 2000, University of California San Diego; contemporary world and multi-ethnic literatures; colonial and postcolonial literatures and theory; transnational feminist and cultural studies. e-mail: anu@u.washington.edu

Tollefson, James W. (1984). (Professor Emeritus)  PhD, 1978, Stanford University; English as a second language, language planning. e-mail: tollefso@u.washington.edu

Triplett, Pimone (2006); Assistant Professor. MFA 1990, University of Iowa; poetry writing. e-mail: ptrip@u.washington.edu

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Vaughan, Miceal F. (1973); Associate Professor. PhD, 1973, Cornell University; medieval language and literature. Personal homepage. e-mail:miceal@u.washington.edu

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Wacker, Norman J. (1989); Senior Lecturer. PhD, 1986, University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing. e-mail: nwacker@u.washington.edu

Wagoner, David R. (1957); Professor.  MA, 1949, Indiana University; twentieth-century literature, fiction and poetry writing. e-mail: renogawd@aol.com

Webster, John M. (1972); Associate Professor. PhD, 1974, University of California (Berkeley); Renaissance literature. Personal homepage. e-mail:cicero@u.washington.edu

Weinbaum, Alys (1998); Associate Professor. PhD 1998, Columbia University; Modern Trans-Atlantic Literature and Culture, Feminism, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, American Studies, Transnational Cultural Studies. e-mail: alysw@u.washington.edu

Wong, Shawn H. (1984); Professor.  MA, 1974, San Francisco State University; creative writing, Chinese-American area studies. e-mail: homebase@u.washington.edu

Woodward, Kathleen (2000); Professor.  PhD 1976, University of California-San Diego; American literature; women studies. e-mail: kw1@u.washington.edu
 

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