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 Professors

  • Alexander, Edward 1962; PhD, 1963, University of Minnesota; romantic and Victorian literature. e-mail: eaengl@u.washington.edu
  • Allen, Carolyn  1972; PhD, 1972, University of Minnesota; twentieth-century literature, women writers, contemporary critical theory. e-mail: callen@u.washington.edu
  • Bierds, Linda L. 1981; MA,1971, University of Washington; poetry writing; contemporary American poetry. e-mail: lbierds@u.washington.edu
  • Blake, Kathleen 1971; PhD, 1971, University of California (San Diego); Victorian literature, children's literature, women's studies. e-mail: kblake@u.washington.edu
  • Blau, Herbert 2000; PhD, 1954, Stanford. Drama and performance; modern and post-modern literature; literary and cultural theory; backgrounds of modernism and traditions of the avant-garde; postcolonial theater and theory; the Absurd; Brecht & Beckett; Strindberg; performance art; the body, voice; the concept of "liveness" and virtual reality.  e-mail: hblau@u.washington.edu
  • Brown, Marshall J.1988; PhD,1972, Yale University eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature, literary theory, music and literature. e-mail: mbrown@u.washington.edu
  • Butler, Johnnella E. 1987 (Adjunct); EdD 1979 University of Massachusetts, Afro-American literature multicultural education. e-mail:jebutler@u.washington.edu
  • Coldewey, John C 1972; PhD, 1972, University of Colorado (Boulder); Renaissance literature, medieval drama. e-mail: jcjc@u.washington.edu
  • Dillon, George L. 1986 PhD 1969 University of California (Berkeley); rhetoric, composition. e-mail: dillon@u.washington.edu
  • Dunn, Richard J. 1967; PhD, 1964, Western Reserve University; Victorian literature, English novel. e-mail: dickd@u.washington.edu
  • Fowler, David C. 1952 (Emeritus); PhD,1949, University of Chicago; medieval literature, comparative religion.
  • Frey, Charles Hubbard 1976; PhD,1971, Yale University; Renaissance literature, Shakespeare. e-mail: cfrey@u.washington.edu
  • Gerstenberger, Donna 1960 (Emerita); PhD,1958, University of Oklahoma; twentieth-century literature, Anglo-lrish literature, feminist criticism.
  • Handwerk, Gary J. 1984; PhD, 1984, Brown University; literary theory, English and Irish nineteenth and twentieth-century narrative. e-mail:handwerk@u.washington.edu
  • Heilman, Robert B. 1948 (Emeritus); PhD, 1935, Harvard University; drama.
  • Irmscher, William F 1960 (Emeritus); PhD, 1950, Indiana University; rhetoric and theory of composition.
  • Jeffords, Susan E. 1985; 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; MA,1973, Southern Illinois University; fiction writing. e-mail:chasjohn@u.washington.edu
  • Kaplan, Sydney J. 1971; PhD, 1971, University of California (Los Angeles); twentieth-century literature, women writers, feminist criticism. e-mail: sydneyk@u.washington.edu
  • Kenney, Richard L. 1987; BA, 1970, Dartmouth College; poetry writing. e-mail:rk@u.washington.edu
  • Korg, Jacob 1955 (Emeritus) PhD 1952 Columbia University; Victorian, twentieth-century literature.
  • Lockwood, Thomas Frank 1967; PhD, 1967, Rice University; eighteenth-century literature. e-mail: tlock@u.washington.edu
  • Matchett, William H. 1954 (Emeritus); PhD, 1957, Harvard University; Renaissance literature, Shakespeare.
  • McCracken, J David 1966; PhD, 1966, University of Chicago; eighteenth-century literature, romanticism, biblical literature. e-mail: davidmcc@u.washington.edu
  • McElroy, Colleen W. 1972; PhD, 1973, University of Washington; Black literature, women writers, poetry writing. e-mail: dragnldy@u.washington.edu
  • McHugh, Heather 1982; MA,1973, University of Denver; writing and close reading of poetry, form in nature and art. e-mail: hmch@earthlink.net
  • Modiano, Raimonda 1978; PhD, 1973, University of California (San Diego); romanticism. e-mail: modiano@u.washington.edu
  • Reinert, Otto 1956 (Emeritus); PhD, 1952, Yale University; comparative literature, eighteenth-century literature.
  • Russ, Joanna 1977 (Emerita); MFA, 1960, Yale University; fiction writing.
  • Sale, Roger H. 1962; PhD, 1957, Cornell University; Renaissance literature. e-mail: sale@u.washington.edu
  • Shaviro, Steven1984; PhD, 1981, Yale University; literary theory, romantic poetry, post-modernism. e-mail:shaviro@u.washington.edu
  • Shields, David1988; MFA, 1980, University of lowa; creative non-fiction writing, fiction writing, screenwriting, contemporary literature. e-mail: dshields@u.washington.edu
  • Shulman, Robert 1961; PhD,1959, Ohio State University; American literature. e-mail: rshulman@u.washington.edu
  • Silberstein, Sandra V. 1982; PhD, 1982, University of Michigan; TESL, critical theory, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language and culture. e-mail: tq@u.washington.edu
  • Simonson, Harold P. 1967, (Emeritus), PhD, 1958 Northwestern University; American literature.
  • Staten, Henry 1998; 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. (Emeritus) 1962; PhD, 1956, University of Wisconsin; medieval language and literature. e-mail: stevickr@u.washington.edu
  • Streitberger,William R. 1973 PhD 1973 University of Illinois; Renaissance literature, textual criticism, paleography. e-mail: streitwr@u.washington.edu
  • Tollefson, James W. 1984; PhD, 1978, Stanford University; English as a second language, language planning. e-mail: tollefso@u.washington.edu
  • Wagoner, David R. 1957; MA, 1949, Indiana University; twentieth-century literature, fiction and poetry writing. e-mail: renogawd@aol.com
  • Wong, Shawn H. 1984; MA, 1974, San Francisco State University; creative writing, Chinese-American area studies. e-mail: homebase@u.washington.edu
  • Woodward, Kathleen 2000; PhD 1976, University of California-San Diego; American literature; women studies.
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 Associate Professors

  • Abrams, Robert 1979; PhD, 1973, Indiana University; American literature. e-mail:rabrams@u.washington.edu
  • Altieri, Joanne 1977 (Emerita); PhD 1969, University of North Carolina; Shakespeare, 17th-century drama, 17th-century literature more generally, drama, historical approaches.
  • Bosworth, David L. 1984, BA, 1969, Brown University fiction writing, modern fiction and poetry, American Puritans. e-mail: davidbos@u.washington.edu
  • Brenner, Gerald J. 1966; PhD, 1969, University of New Mexico; American literature, fiction writing. e-mail: brenner@u.washington.edu
  • Butwin, Joseph M. 1978, PhD, 1971, Harvard University; Victorian literature. e-mail: joeyb@u.washington.edu
  • Cummings, Katherine 1985; PhD, 1985, University of Wisconsin; feminist, psychoanalytical, and literary theory, modern and contemporary literature. e-mail:ckate@u.washington.edu
  • Dunlop, William M. 1962; MA, 1965, Cambridge University (UK); Shakespeare, nineteenth-century literature, poetry writing. e-mail: eumaeus@u.washington.edu
  • Fisher, Alan S. 1968; PhD, 1969, University of California (Berkeley); Renaissance, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, history of literary criticism. e-mail: piscator@u.washington.edu
  • Griffith, John W. 1968; PhD, 1969, University of Oregon; American literature. e-mail: jgriff@u.washington.edu
  • Guerra, Juan C. 1990; PhD, 1990, University of Illinois; rhetoric and composition. e-mail: jguerra@u.washington.edu
  • Hudson, Lois Phillips 1969 (Emeritus); LittD, 1965, North Dakota State University; fiction writing.
  • LaGuardia, Eric Henry 1961; PhD, 1961, University of lowa; Renaissance literature. e-mail: ehl@u.washington.edu
  • Longyear, Christopher R. 1972 (Emeritus); PhD, 1961, University of Michigan; linguistics.
  • Moody, Jocelyn K. 1991; PhD 1992, University of Kansas; nineteenth-century American, African-Ameri can, and women's literature, autobiography, poetry. e-mail: jmoody@u.washington.edu
  • Mussetter, Sally Ann 1978; PhD, 1975,Cornell University; medieval language and literature. e-mail: mussette@u.washington.edu
  • Palomo, Dolores J. 1971, (Emeritus); PhD, 1972, State University of New York (Buffalo); Rennaissance literature, women writers.
  • Patterson, Mark R. 1981; PhD, 1981, Princeton University; American literature. e-mail: mpat@u.washington.edu
  • Remley, Paul G. 1988; PhD,1990, Columbia University; Old and Middle English, medieval languages and literatures, critical theory. e-mail:remley@u.washington.edu
  • Searle, Leroy F. 1977; PhD, 1970, University of lowa; twentieth-century literature, critical theory, American studies. e-mail: lsearle@u.washington.edu
  • Simpson, Caroline Chung 1994; PhD 1994, University of Texas; Asian-American literature and culture. e-mail: csimpson@u.washington.edu
  • Smith, Eugene H. 1958, (Emeritus); PhD, 1963, University of Washington; rhetoric and theory of composition.
  • Sonenberg, Maya 1993; MA 1984, Brown University; fiction writing, twentieth-century fiction, postmodern fiction, women writers. e-mail: mayas@u.washington.edu
  • Stygall, Gail 1990; PhD, 1989, Indiana University; rhetoric and composition, English language linguistics, law and literature. e-mail: stygall@u.washington.edu
  • Vaughan, M&iacutre;ceal F1973; PhD, 1973, Cornell University; medieval language and literature. e-mail:miceal@u.washington.edu
  • Webster, John M. 1972; PhD, 1974, University of California (Berkeley); Renaissance literature. e-mail:cicero@u.washington.edu
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 Assistant Professors

  • Bawarshi, Anis 1999; PhD 1999, Kansas; rhetoric and composition. e-mail:bawarshi@u.washington.edu
  • Burstein, Jessica 1998; PhD 1998, University of Chicago; Modern British and Americna literature an dpoetry, late 19th-century British literature. e-mail:jb2@u.washington.edu
  • Halmi, Nicholas 2001; 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. email: nh2@u.washington.edu
  • Griffith, Malcolm A. 1966; PhD 1966 Ohio State University; twentieth-century literature, modern criticism, American literature. e-mail: malcolmg@u.washington.edu
  • Kaup, Monika.  2001; PhD 1991, Ruhr University (Germany); North American multiculturalism, literature of the Americas, Chicano/a writing, Canadian writing, madness in women's literature, post-Cold War Cuban American cultures.  e-mail: mkaup@u.washington.edu
  • Reddy, Chandan.  2001; 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; PhD Stanford; 20th-century American and English poetry; modernism; post-modernism; the avant-garde; post-Civil War American literature. e-mail: bmreed@u.washington.edu
  • Weinbaum, Alys 1998; PhD 1998, Columbia University; contemporary critical theory--feminist theory, sexuality and gender studies, literary theory (Marxism, deconstruction & post-structuralism), theories of race, ethnicity & nation, American studies, trans-Atlantic modernism, psychoanalysis. e-mail: alysw@u.washington.edu
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Acting Instructors

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Senior Lecturers

  • George, E. Laurie 1991; PhD, 1984, University of Oregon; expository/computer-aided writing, American literature, feminist linguistics, pedagogy. e-mail:elgeorge@u.washington.edu
  • Graham, Joan Adelle 1974; MA, 1972, University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing. e-mail:  jbgraham@u.washington.edu
  • McNamara, Robert J. 1985; PhD, 1985, University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing.e-mail:  mailto:rmcnamara@u.washington.edu
  • Simmons-O'Neill, Elizabeth 1985; PhD, 1988 University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing, service learning, education and tutoring.  e-mail: esoneill@u.washington.edu
  • Wacker, Norman J. 1989; PhD, 1986, University of Washington; expository and interdisciplinary writing. e-mail: nwacker@u.washington.edu
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