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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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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.

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.

New DE in EH

Faculty

Professor of English Parama Roy is retiring this spring, 2022.

How has the department changed since you first started at UC Davis?