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ROBERT E. ABRAMS, Associate ProfessorPh.D. 1973, Indiana rabrams@u.washington.edu American literature, Marxism, psychoanalysis, iconology, cultural constructions of landscapePrimary 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, ProfessorPh.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 Modernism and Postmodernism, Feminist criticism and theory, contemporary literary theory, women writers, twentieth-century literature, theories of sexuality, cultural studiesPrimary 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, Assistant 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 StudiesPrimary 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-gardeMost 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 poetryPrimary 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 literaturePrimary 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, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1993, University of California-Berkeley burgett@u.washington.edu American studies, gender and queer studies, interdisciplinarity, transnationalism, political theory and economy, cultural studies, critical race studies, sentimentalismPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic (1998); "Between Population and Speculation: The Problem of 'Sex' in Our Long Eighteenth Century," Early American Literature (forthcoming). Current book projects: "American Sex: Cultures of Sexual Reform in the Antebellum United States"; "Queer Studies/American Studies" (a special forum in American Literary History, coeditor with Chandan Reddy); "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times" (a year-long research collaboration sponsored by the Simpson Humanities Center 2002-03)
JESSICA BURSTEIN, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1998, Chicago jb2@u.washington.edu Modern British and American literature, late 19th Century British LiteraturePrimary 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
JOHNNELLA E. BUTLER, Adjunct Professor
Ed.D. 1979, Massachusetts jebutler@u.washington.edu African American and African diaspora fiction and theory; comparative American ethnic fiction and theory; intersections of post-colonial and post-civil rights theory; U.S. women of color; pedagogy and curriculum transformation.
JOSEPH M. BUTWIN, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1971, Harvard joeyb@u.washington.edu Nineteenth-century England, history and literature, politics and popular culture, the novelPrimary 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
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JOHN C. COLDEWEY, Professor
Ph.D. 1972, Colorado jcjc@u.washington.edu Medieval and Renaissance drama, neo-Latin drama, scholarly editing, Chaucer, ShakespearePrimary 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.
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GEORGE L. DILLON, Professor
Ph.D. l969, California-Berkeley dillon@u.washington.edu Rhetoric and composition, linguistics, discourse analysis
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dillon
WILLIAM M. DUNLOP, Associate Professor EmeritusM.A. 1964, Cambridge eumaeus@u.washington.edu Shakespeare, nineteenth-century British novel, drama and operaPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Work on drama (especially Shakespearean) in relation to opera
RICHARD J. DUNN, Professor
Ph.D. 1964, Western Reserve dickd@u.washington.edu The novel, Victorian literature and painting, Dickens, English teaching, textual studiesPrimary 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.
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ALAN S. FISHER, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1969, California-Berkeley piscator@u.washington.edu Seventeenth-century, eighteenth-century, sixteenth-century theory of literary history, history of literary theoryPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Articles on Dryden, Milton, Swift, Pope, and others. Book in progress on the theory and history of humanism
DAVID C. FOWLER, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., 1949, Chicago Medieval English literature, Bible as literature, Arthurian romance, popular ballad, medieval drama, Chaucer, Piers the Plowman, Pearl poet, medieval lyrics, works of John Trevisa (c1342-1402), international popular tale, folklorePrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Piers the Plowman: Literary Relations of the A and B Texts (1961); A Literary History of the Popular Ballad (1968); The Bible in Early English Literature (1976); The Bible in Middle English Literature (1984); contribution to A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500, chapter on "Ballads," vol. 6 (1980), pp.1753-1808, 2019-2070; contribution to Dictionary of the Middle Ages, II (1983), 59-60, 220-23; The Life and Times of John Trevisa (1995).
CHARLES H. FREY, Professor
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.
BARBARA FUCHS, Associate Professor and Adjunct Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. 1997, Stanford fuchsbar@u.washington.edu 16th and 17th century English and Spanish literature and culture, imperialism and national identities in a Mediterranean and transatlantic context, postcolonial theory.Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: "Virtual Spaniards," in Spanish Nation Formation, a special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2:1, March 2001; "Empire Unmanned: Gender Trouble and Genoese Gold in Cervantes' 'The Two Dansels'," PMLA, March 2001; "Faithless Empires: Pirates, Renegadoes, and the English Nation," English Literary History 67, Spring 2000; Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities, Cambridge UP, 2001. Forthcoming: Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity, Illinois UP, 2002; "An English Picaro in New Spain: The Story of Miles Philips," in a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review, Feb. 2002; "Pirating Spain: Jonson on Translation," in Modern Philology, Winter 2002; "Spanish Lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos," in Studies in English Literature, Winter 2002.
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JOHN W. GRIFFITH, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1969, Oregon jgriff@u.washington.edu American literature (all periods), the Bible as literature, children's literaturePrimary 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
MALCOLM A. GRIFFITH, Assistant Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1966, Ohio State malcolmg@u.washington.edu Twentieth-century literature, recent literary criticism and theory, autobiography, contemporary British and American fiction
JUAN C. GUERRA, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1992, Illinois-Chicago jguerra@u.washington.edu Literacy, Ethnography, Composition, Autobiography
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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; synecdochePrimary 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 forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era. Co-editor of Coleridge's Opus Maximum (Princeton, 2002), Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition, 2003), and Opera and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England (forthcoming); editor of Frye's Fearful Symmetry (forthcoming). Current research: Romantic concept of the symbol, Romanticism and modernity, semiotics of circumcision.
http://faculty.washington.edu/nh2/index.html
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 theoryPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Joyce, Meredith, Lacan, Beckett, Godwin, Romantic Irony, 19th-century fiction/history.
GILLIAN HARKINS, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2002 (expected), California-Berkeley hark@uclink4.berkeley.edu Modern and contemporary American literature; female novelists; autobiography; trauma; psychoanalysis; narrative theory; feminist and queer theory; citizenshipPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: "Telling Fact from Fiction: Dorothy Allison's Disciplinary Stories," in Incest and the Literary Imagination, ed. Elizabeth Barnes (forthcoming). "Teaching Institutions," in Conference Proceedings from The Future of Women's Studies: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, 2001.
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.
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SUSAN JEFFORDS, Professor
Ph.D. 1981, Pennsylvania jeffords@u.washington.edu Feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, militarismPrimary 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
http://www.siu.edu/~johnson
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Yasuko KANNO, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1996, University of Toronto ykanno@u.washington.edu Bilingual education and bilingualism; language, culture, identity; research methods for applied linguistics; qualitative research methodsPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Negotiating bilingual and bicultural identity: Japanese returnees betwixt two worlds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (in press).
SYDNEY J. KAPLAN, Professor
Ph.D. 1971, UCLA sydneyk@u.washington.edu Twentieth-century British and American literature, women writers and feminist criticismPrimary 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 urbanPrimary 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
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ERIC LA GUARDIA, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1961, Iowa ehl@u.washington.edu Renaissance literature, modern literature, literary theory
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 centuryPrimary 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
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DAVID MC CRACKEN, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1966, Chicago davidmcc@u.washington.edu Biblical narrative, Wordsworth, late eighteenth-century English literaturePrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Biblical narratives, Wordsworth, landscape and literature, Godwin
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 literaturePrimary 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, ProfessorM.A. 1972, Denver hmchugh@silverlink.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 ideasPrimary 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 theoryPrimary 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).
JOYCELYN MOODY, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1993, Kansas jmoody@u.washington.edu African American Literature, 19-Century American Literature, Autobiography, Women's Literature
SALLY A. MUSSETTER, Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1975, Cornell mussette@u.washington.edu Medieval literature and languages; Old English, Middle English, Old French, Old Norse, Italian, Latin; exegetical traditions; epics, romances; Chaucer, Chrétien de Troyes, Dante, the Beowulf poet, the Gawain poet
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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 literaturePrimary 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.
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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 ProfessorPh.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, Associate 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 S
LEROY F. SEARLE, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1970, Iowa lsearle@u.washington.edu Critical theory, American literature, modern literature, intellectual history, photography, aesthetics, history of science, computersPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Critical theory, photographic criticism, intellectual history
STEVEN SHAVIRO, Professor
Ph.D. 1981, Yale shaviro@u.washington.edu Film, postmodernism, popular culture, contemporary literary theory. 3 books: Passion & Excess, The Cinematic Body, Doom Patrols
http://www.dhalgren.com/
DAVID SHIELDS, ProfessorM.F.A. 1980, Iowa dshields@u.washington.edu Fiction, autobiography, creative nonfictionPrimary 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.
http://www.davidshields.com/
ROBERT P. SHULMAN, Professor
Ph.D. 1959, Ohio State rshulman@u.washington.edu Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American fiction, social and political theoryPrimary 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 theoryPrimary 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, Texascsimpson@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 ProfessorM.A. 1984, Brown mayas@u.washington.edu Fiction writing, Twentieth century fictionPrimary 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 historyPrimary 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, paleographyPrimary 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
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JAMES W. TOLLEFSON, Professor
Ph.D. 1978, Stanford tollefso@u.washington.edu Language policy and language planning, sociolinguistics, second language acquisitionPrimary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Current research: language policy and social theory
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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 poetryPrimary 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.
http://faculty.washington.edu/miceal/
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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 compositionPrimary 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, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 1998, Columbia alysw@u.washington.edu Feminist Theory, sexuality and gender studies, literary theory (Marxism, deconstruction, and poststructuralism), theories of race, ethnicity, and nation, American Studies, trans-Atlantic modernism, and psychoanalysis.Primary Scholarly Publications / Current Research Activities: Recent Articles: "Marx, Irigaray, and the Politics of Reproduction," in Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? E. Bianchi ed.; "On Critical Globality," (co-authored with Brent Edwards), Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (January, 2000); "Writing Feminist Genealogy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Racial Nationalism, and the Reproduction of Maternalist Feminism," Feminist Studies (Summer 2001); "Reproducing Racial Globality: W.E.B Du Bois and the Sexual Politics of Black Internationalism," Social Text (Summer 2001); "Ways of Not Seeing: Engendering Modernity's Optics in Baudelaire, Benjamin, Freud and Masereel," in Loss, D. Kazanjian and D. Eng eds. (University of California Press, 2002). Current book projects: Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Trans-Atlantic Modern Thought, and Rethinking Reproduction in Transnationalism. Current anthology project: W.E.B. DuBois and The Gender of the Color Line (co-edited with Susan Gillman).
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 woodward@uwm.edu American literature; women studies
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