News

This is the inaugural episode of the limited series Off the Syllabus. In this series Prof. Matthew Vernon interviews professors in the English department about a movie they love. This is an opportunity for them to explore a topic that is not necessarily something they study, but that they are nevertheless excited about. This first interview is with Prof. Desirée Martín about the 2023 film Barbie by Greta Gerwig.

Link to Article: https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/top-college-awards-go-mental-health-justice-advocates

MFA student Sarah Mayo has been selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Sarah is one of only eight UC Davis students chosen for this prestigious Fulbright scholarship, which will take her to Greece to teach and to serve as a cultural ambassador.

In recognition of her outstanding teaching and mentoring, Professor Margaret Ronda has been awarded the 2023 College of Letters and Science Teaching Award for the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies.

Link to article: https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-arts-and-humanities-graduate-students-work-center-stage-annual-exhibition#overlay-context=search/everything%3Fsearch%3DPhD%2Bstudents%2BAllison%2BFulton%2Band%2BGrace%2B

Link to story : https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/creative-writing-professor-awarded-guggenheim-0

Dear Friends,

We’re writing to share the UC Davis English Department newsletter for 2022–23, with updates on what our community has been doing over the past twelve months—publications, prizes, and activities.

Since the start of April, students in Professor Carl Stahmer’s graduate seminar have spent their Monday afternoons hand-setting metal type and printing literary works on a nearly two-hundred-year-old printing press housed in UC Davis’s Shields Library basement.

With the expertise they gain at UC Davis, graduate students go on to pursue successful careers across diverse fields. Many of them credit the post-grad opportunities they’ve secured to the variety of available teaching positions and strong pedagogical training offered by the department. Such were the experiences of Ashley Sarpong (‘21) and Michael Mlekoday (‘22).

Professor Xavier Lee was hired as part of a 2021-22 department search for new faculty in Global Black Literatures. He will join the English Department in Fall 2023 after completing a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University this past year.

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