Dyani Johns is a second year graduate student in the English Department at the University of California, Davis. Her interest in languages and literature began at Skidmore College, where she received her bachelors degree, Summa Cum Laude in English with a minor in Dance. Her research interests include translation theory, early modern British, Spanish, and Atlantic literature, biblical re/interpretations and narratives of transformation. She is currently working towards a Designated Emphasis in Classics and/or Critical Theory, and beginning to study for her preliminary exams.

Teaching:

UWP 1: Expository Writing. Fall 2009.

Teaching Assistantships:

ENL 110B: Principles of Criticism. Spring 2009. (With Discussion Sections)

ENL 155B: 19th Century British Literature. Winter 2008

ENL 117B: Shakespeare-The Middle Period. Fall 2008. (With Discussion Sections)

Conference Papers:

Upcoming:

"Translation and Cultural Un/intelligibility in ...y no se lo tragó la tierra and Caramelo." Colloquium on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Davis, CA, 7 November 2009.

"The Garden and the New World: Translating Paradise in Cavendish and Behn." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Dallas, TX, October 2009.

Given:

"Milton's Dark Materials: Generative Chaos and Boundary Transgression." Renaissance Conference of Southern California, San Marino, CA, 7 February 2009.

Publications:

"1352 Lighthouse Way." The National Poetry Review, Issue 8, Winter 2008.