Reviews of professor Douglas Ishii

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doug is knowledgeable about diversity, and definitely shows his bluntness and personality in class. He encourages participation and challenges you to think even deeper than what you contributed. I worry about speaking my mind because he freely expresses his strong opinions. Overall, he's definitely not boring! Just very open and honest.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Easily one of the most inspiring teachers I've had at Emerson. Doug really pushed me to open up and think about the things we were reading and discussing. He takes time to know his students and understand their strengths, helping us become better writers, readers, and overall humans. He's engaging and fun and it made me want to go to class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Doug's saltiness is mostly why he's so great. Intelligent with a pinch of sarcastic undertone. He's really passionate about Asian literature, so if you like that, he'll love you. Participate and do the readings and you'll be golden. Essays can be a bit rough, but he'll help you. Always offers office hours and class is never boring.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took ENGL 259 with him and hes amazing! I loved our class discussions and his class exposed me to so many different perspectives!! Favorite class at UW so far!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doug is a great professor and a huge personality. He's incredibly funny and opinionated, but it's never bad. The Theory readings take a long time to get through, but he focuses on ALL of them, so pay attention and definitely take notes. As long as you participate and ask questions, he love you and you'll enjoy the class.