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Professor of English and Comparative Literature Joshua Clover died on April 26, 2025. Here Joshua’s students remember him.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Joshua Clover (1962-2025). Joshua was a professor, theorist, scholar, editor, and poet, but first and foremost, he was a communist. Indeed, his political commitments were at the core of everything he did: from the streets to the courthouses, the reading groups to the letter-writing nights, he was a partisan of the real movement wherever it could be found.

Saba Keramati’s debut poetry collection, Self-Mythology, was selected by Patricia Smith for publication in the Miller Williams Poetry Series at University of Arkansas Press. A winner of the 2023 92NY Discovery Poetry Prize, Saba holds an MFA from UC Davis, where she was a Dean’s Graduate Fellow for Creative Arts. She is the Poetry Editor at SundogLit.

Saba will be returning to UC Davis for a reading on April 3.

Professor Tiffany Jo Werth’s newest book, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton, was recently published by Oxford University Press. The work explores the cultural, religious, and literary significance of “stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm” in shaping human identity in the early-modern period. 
 

We are deeply saddened by the recent death of Distinguished Professor Emerita Sandra Gilbert.

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Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon, forthcoming with Wesleyan University Press. A former physics teacher at a large public school, she also taught creative writing as a lecturer or writer-in-residence at UC San Diego, Wellesley College, and Kenyon College. Ok will teach both graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops this year.

We are deeply saddened by the recent death of Professor Elizabeth Freeman.

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