Grace Hayes

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328 Voorhies
Office Hours
Winter 2025, Tuesdays 10-12 on Zoom or by appt.
Bio

Dissertation

“The Ecological Everyday in Artist-Built Environments and Postwar Poetry”

Committee: Margaret Ronda (Chair), Elizabeth Miller, and Mike Ziser.

Biography

PhD Candidate, English with a Designated Emphasis in Environmental Humanities, University of California, Davis.

BS, English Literature and Conservation Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2019.

Publications

The Impermanent Collection: Some of Mary Nohl’s Short-Lived Sculptures.” Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments (SPACES) Archives Blog, January 2025. 

Fellowships and Grants 

Humanities Program Graduate Summer Fellowship, UC Davis, 2024.

Jack Hicks Literature of California Fellowship, UC Davis, 2024.

Mary Nohl House Short-Term Research Resident, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2023.

AggieOpen Fellow, UC Davis Library, 2023-24.

Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellowship, UC Davis, 2023.

Deirdre Hackett Endowment, Fieldwork Research Support, UC Davis, 2022.

Provost’s Fellowship in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UC Davis, 2020-21.

Chesler Prize for Excellence in Writing, UW-Madison, 2018-19.

Teaching

Associate Instructor, ENL3: Introduction to Literature. UC Davis, 2024-25.

Associate Instructor, UWP1Y: Introduction to Academic Literacies. Hybrid. UC Davis, 2023-2024.

Associate Instructor, UWP1: Introduction to Academic Literacies. UC Davis, 2022-2023       

By-Agreement Instructor, U.S. College Study Skills. UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education, Remote, 2022.

TA, Topics in Racial & Ethnic Literary Studies (Hsuan Hsu). UC Davis, Remote Instruction, 2022.

TA, Literatures in English to 1700 (Frances Dolan). UC Davis, 2022.

TA, Literatures in English 1900 to Present (Mark Jerng). UC Davis, 2021.