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The greenway walking paths on the north side of town. Be sure to make your way to Northstar Park and check out the boardwalk. – Ava Bindas

The Raptor Center houses and rehabilitates various wild birds in the area. You can visit and meet their resident ambassador owls, kites, eagles, falcons, and harriers, and there's a small museum on-site as well. – Margaret Ronda

Awards, Publications, and Projects for English Department Faculty, Emeriti, Lecturers, Visiting Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergraduates in 2022-2023.

Kirk Colvin (M.A., creative writing/English, ’98) spent a year as U.S. Coast Guard attaché to the American Embassy during the final months of the brutal Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier regime in the 1980s. His time there informed his novel Bloodless Coup, winner of the Maurice Prize for Fiction.

The Maurice Prize of $10,000 is awarded to UC Davis alumni and was established in 2005 by bestselling author John Lescroart in honor of his father. 

Maceo Montoya is a UC Davis professor, writer, artist and scholar, and recently made his first film. He’s also added editor to his many titles, leading the highly regarded Huizache: The Magazine of a New America. Montoya recently piloted the relaunch of the journal with a new issue coming out this month.

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English PhD student Leila Easa is proud to announce the release of her coauthored book with Dr. Jennifer Stager, Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho's Fragments to Viral Hashtags, a book of essays in classical receptions and feminist criticism developed in connection to ongoing political and epidemiological crises and the significant intersectional feminist response to this moment.

At this year's commencement, graduating seniors Eli Elster, a double major in English and cognitive science, and Mimi McMillan, a double major in English and Art Studio, were recognized with major awards.

Dear Friends,

I’m writing to share the UC Davis English Department newsletter for 2021–22, a long, strange year for us all. It was a pleasure to return to Voorhies Hall in the fall and begin to see colleagues and students in person again. Despite some ups and downs (the stop-and-start winter quarter being a particularly difficult stretch), it has lifted our spirits to start to re-engage with our community face to face.  

The Deirdre Hackett Award for Experiential Learning

Starting this year, undergraduate and graduate students in the English department will be eligible for a new fellowship: the Deirdre Hackett Award for experiential learning. This opportunity has been made possible by Matt Hackett, who has established the Deirdre Hackett Endowment in English to honor the memory of his late mother, Deirdre, who was a Class of 1987 English major at UC Davis.

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