Other Articles

Best book of the pandemic: Carolyn Forché's What You Have Heard Is True.

—Pam Houston

I very much enjoyed Robert MacFarlane's Underland: A Deep Time Journey

—Liz Miller

"Live or die, but don't poison everything." –Anne Sexton or Saul Bellow, depending on whom you ask.

—Beth Freeman

The Alice B Toklas Cook Book. Senselessness, by Horacio Castellanos Moya.

—Lucy Corin

In Memoriam

Professors Peter L. Hays and James J. (Jerry) Murphy

The English Department lost two valued emeritus faculty members this year, Professor Peter L. Hays and Professor James J. (Jerry) Murphy. While Jerry (a Professor of Rhetoric and longtime honorary member of our faculty) retired in 1991 and Peter in 2004, both of them remained active in campus life and events into recent years, and they will both be greatly missed.

On Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 UC Davis English faculty and students gathered virtually for our annual end-of-the-year awards celebration. One of the honors announced was the Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg Outstanding Senior award which went to Ruth Christopher. Below you’ll find Chirstopher’s remarks.

--------
 

As the UC Student body grows to reflect the diversity of California’s population, graduate and faculty populations have conspicuously failed to keep pace. One of the key impediments to recruiting a  professoriate resides farther back in the pipeline, in the traditional processes and criteria for graduate admissions. These, we are happy to report, have begun to change in tangible ways at the UC Davis English department. 

Last year we welcomed Zinzi Clemmons to the department as Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing. This coming fall we will welcome her again, this time as Assistant Professor in English on the tenure track. 

Celeste Turner Wright: Longest-serving Chair of English 

By 

Linda A. Morris, Professor Emerita

Crip Temporalities, Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly

Edited by Elizabeth Freeman and Ellen Samuels

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

By Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

A Virtual End to the Academic Year

On Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 nearly a hundred UC Davis English faculty and students gathered virtually for our annual end-of-the-year awards celebration.