John Olin Hayden, born December 18, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, died peacefully with family by his side on Saturday, September 8, 2018. The cause of death was related to West Nile virus.

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Marie de France is the earliest woman we know of in medieval European literature who wrote non-religious works. Her Lais have been very popular ever since their (read more)

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The book rethinks how the medieval is construed in terms of racial politics.

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Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's End offers a literary history of the Great Acceleration (1945-present), an era of rapid and unprecedented change to (read more)

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The New Selected Poems of Robert Lowell aims to introduce a new generation of readers to the American poet Lowell, one of the most significant American (read more)

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The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch defined by the magnitude of human intervention in the Earth System. In Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in (read more)

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Mark Garrett Cooper and I show how the need to create an audience stamps each of the university’s steadily proliferating disciplines, shapes its structure, and (read more)

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In Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction, I argue that far from just being a mode of thought predicated on its operations of classification and (read more)

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To think about riots as a form of class struggle, racialized in the present, and in turn to understand the fall and rise of this particular form of struggle as an (read more)

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A new understanding of medieval poetic form as articulated through its relationship to dance.

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Theater is not a likely reference point for most gamers today, but it should be, according to Bloom. She writes:

Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when (read more)

This year, undergraduate students in the UC Davis English Department have been bringing an augmented reality video game called Play the Knave to area K-12 schools. The game allows players to perform their own versions of Shakespeare’s (read more)

Austin was recently selected as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University, where he is also a Jones Lecturer. His first collection of poems, Almanac, was chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, (read more)

Melinda’s first collection of stories, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, won the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Maurice Prize, and was a 5 Under 35 selection by the National Book Foundation. She graduated from the UC (read more)

Becky’s first collection of stories, Bad Kansas, won the 2016 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and was chosen as a 2018 Kansas Notable Book. She graduated from the UC Davis Creative Writing Master’s program in 2016.

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Kirsten’s collection of stories, What We Do With the Wreckage, won the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She graduated from the UC Davis Creative Writing Master’s program in 2003.

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Jamil Kochai’s short story “Nights in Logar” was recently selected for the 2018 O. Henry Prize. He graduated from the UC Davis Creative Writing Master’s program in 2017.

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In addition to being an English major, Michael is a Research Assistant at the Center for Educational Effectiveness. He's currently working on a senior project that analyzes when and how first year, second year, and/or first generation (read more)