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Graduate Students: M.A. (Creative Writing) | Ph.D. (Literature)

M.A. (Creative Writing)
Crystal Anderson canderson@ucdavis.edu San Antonio, TX	B.A., English/professional writing, Baylor University Interests: Poetry, fiction, reading, history, video games, movies, psychology, social norms/tendencies/taboos
Joseph Atkins jtatkins@ucdavis.edu Sacramento, CA	B.A., English, California State University, Sacramento Interests: Poetry, short stories, film, non-narrative anything, independent music, non-extreme sports, roulette, poker, Belgian beers.
Crystal Cheney cacheney@ucdavis.edu Sacramento, CA	B.A., English (creative writing emphasis); Minor, Psychology, University of California, Davis Interests: Literary Journals. Particularly Produce, the UCD Literary Journal. Travel, American Literature, Flash Fiction, Pop Culture, Theater, Modern-Contemporary Art, Briish Literature, Irish Literature
Tiffany Denman tndenman@ucdavis.edu Sacramento, CA	B.A., English, St. Mary's College, California Interests: Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, film, Canadian indie music, writers and writing, yoga, tea, honeybees and night blooming jasmine.
Christopher Erickson ccerickson@ucdavis.edu Decatur, Illinois	B.A., Film Production, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Interests: Fiction, creative non-fiction, journalism, blogging, folklore, baseball and football.
Allison Hack amjhack@ucdavis.edu Winlaw, BC	B.A., Writing, University of Victoria B.A., Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia Interests: Creative Writing, contemporary fiction, short stories, poetry
Samantha Hudson sbhudson@ucdavis.edu Portland, Oregon	B.A., English, Oregon State University Interests: Creative writing, the contemporary American short story, the Beat movement, the American Dream, literacy, myth in fiction
Patricia Anne Killelea pakillelea@ucdavis.edu Suisun City, CA	B.A. English, University of California, Davis Interests: Creative Writing (poetry), Native American Literature (especially contemporary N.A. women's poetry), Irish Literature, Occult Literature.
Maria Kochis mtkochis@ucdavis.edu Mt. Pocono, PA	B.A. English, St. Mary's College, PA; MA. Library Science, University of Pittsburgh, PA Interests: Reading great fiction, writing creatively, organic gardening, bike touring, backpacking, and learning to live in harmony with the earth.
Carmen Lau carlau@ucdavis.edu Lindsay, CA	B.A., English (emphasis in creative writing), University of California, Davis Interests: Mythology and the idea of magic, as well as magician figures.
Jeanine Peters jmwpeters@ucdavis.edu Encinitas, CA	B.A., Literature, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Minor, Art History Interests: Creative Writing (poetry), Emily Dickinson, the Metaphysical poets, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Neruda, Chinese and Japanese poetry, surrealism, absurdism and fabulism, zoology, art history, Victorian literature, the New York School of Poetry, blues, Science and Literature Studies, Dante, translation, feminism, letterpress printing, modern and contemporary drama, horticulture. Courses TA'd: Introduction to, and close Reading of, Poetry Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Erica Lorraine Scheidt elscheidt@ucdavis.edu San Francisco, CA	B.A., Writing, Naropa University Interests: Contemporary fiction, young adult fiction
Erin Steinke elsteinke@ucdavis.edu Omaha, Nebraska	B.A., English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Interests: Poetry and creative writing, film, gender studies, marketing and the cultural impact of media, boutique wines, travel, hiking/ backpacking.
Monica Storss mlstorss@ucdavis.edu	B.A., with Honors, English, Portland State University Interests: Creative writing, poetry, postmodernism, the short story, women writers, regional literature, folklore and mythology, religious and sacred texts, pedagogy, New Historicism, American humor, and Flannery O'Connor.
Wendy Trevino wmtrevino@ucdavis.edu Harlingen, Texas	B.A., Philosophy, Political Science, Baylor University Interests: Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry and Fiction, Plato, Nietzsche, Political Philosophy
Lauren Velevis lkvelevis@ucdavis.edu New York, NY	B.A., Creative Writing and French Literature, Emory University Interests: Fiction, YA iterature, travel and food.
Elise Winn ewinn@ucdavis.edu Camdenton, Missouri	B.A., with Honors, English and Writing, Drury University Interests: 20th-Century contemporary American literature, short and flash fiction, creative non-fiction, travel and place, literature and ethics, graphic design, cooking.

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Ph.D. (Literature)
James Addona jpaddona@ucdavis.edu Levittown, NY	B.A., English Literature, High Honors, Swarthmore College Scholarly Interests: Postcolonial Literature/Theory, Gender Studies, 20th-century British & American literature, Romanticism.
Kristen Aldebol klaldebol@ucdavis.edu Mauldin, S.C.	B.A., English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University Scholary Interests: The roles of women, music and religion in Medieval and Renaissance literature.
Valerie Billing vcbilling@ucdavis.edu Urbana, IL	B.A., English, University of Illinois Scholarly Interests: Renaissance literature (especially drama and women't writing), gender theory, and performance.
Gretchen Braun gabraun@ucdavis.edu	B.A., English, Boston University M.A., English, Stanford University Scholarly Interests: Victorian literature, development of the novel, psychic trauma and narrative representation, feminist theory and gender studies. Teaching Experience: Courses taught: UWP 1 (Expository Writing) UWP 101 (Advanced Composition) ENL 3 (Introduction to Literature) Courses TA'd: Faulkner, Children's Literature, 18th- century novel
Jolie Braun jlbraun@ucdavis.edu St. Louis, MO	B.A., English and Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Scholarly Interests: Victorian literature; death, mourning, and burial in 19th-century literature and poetry; space and place; gender studies; book history Teaching Experience: Courses taught: English 1 (Expository Writing) Courses TA'd: Modernism; 18th century British Novel; Introduction to Fiction
Gina Caison gmcaison@ucdavis.edu Mebane, NC	B.A., English, Auburn University M.A., English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Scholarly Interests: 19th-Century American literature, Native American literature, post-colonial theory.
Hai Dao haidao@ucdavis.edu San Jose, CA	B.A., English and History, University of California, Berkeley M.A., English with Honors, California State University, Sacramento Scholarly Interests: Late Medieval and Early Modern English literature, 20th-Century American, poetry and poetics, gender studies.
Claire Dawkins cadawkins@ucdavis.edu Lafayette, LA	B.A., English (Literature); Minors, French and Political Science, Summa Cum Laude; Louisiana State University Scholarly Interests: 16th and 17th-century British drama and poetry, psychoanalytic theory, poetic negotiations of power, and representations of mothers. Teaching Experience: UWP 1 (Expository Writing) Courses TA'd: English 42 (Introduction to Theory) English 117a (Early Shakespeare) English 46a (Masterpieces of British Literature to 1640).
Valerie Dennis vadennis@ucdavis.edu Eugene, OR	B.A., English, University of Oregon Honors College (1999), M.A., English, University of California, Davis (2006) Scholarly Interests: Medieval and Early Modern English literature, Christian theology and literature, Depiction of demons in literature, George Herbert, Pattern poetry Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1 Expository Writing Courses Courses TA'd: Bible as Literature, Introduction to Poetry
William Elliott wdelliott@ucdavis.edu Wasilla, Alaska	B.A., English, Creative Writing, University of Puget Sound, Washington Scholarly Interests: Literature and the environment, literature of the North and American West, rhetorics of expansion, conquest and growth, and travelogues.
Ryan D. Fong rdfong@ucdavis.edu Sacramento, CA	B.A., English and Cultural Studies, Whittier College Scholarly Interests: Contemporary British literature, Critical Theory, especially Post-colonial, Feminist and Gender Studies. Also interested in Milton. Teaching Experience: Courses TA'd:
Shannon Osborne Ford sford@ucdavis.edu Orange County, California	B.A., California State University, Fullerton M.A., California State University, Fullerton Scholarly Interests: Early Modern British Literature,Early American Literature,Northern Renaissance Art, women artists, theology,Feminism and Gender theory. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1 Expository Writing Courses TA'd: Shakespeare's Later Works Works Edited: Osborne Ford, Shannon, editorial team, Thomas Dekker's Whore of Babylon for Digital Renaissance Editions (http://www.digital-renaissance) (forthcoming) Selected Conference Papers: "Doubting Conscience, Doubting Self: Dissecting the Protestant Gaze in Shakespeare’s Hamlet." Proceedings of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, November 14-16, 2003: Troubling Causality in the English Renaissance. Atlanta: SAMLA, 2003. "Anatomizing the Body: Surveillance, Interiority, and the Early Modern State." Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 23-26, 2003. History, Authority, and Performance. Newport Beach: GEMCS, 2003.
Seth Forrest sjforrest@ucdavis.edu Murrells Inlet, SC	B.A., English, Clemson University Scholarly Interests: Modern and Postmodern American poetry, art and music; poetry and sound; ecocriticism; deconstruction. Teaching Experience Courses Taught: ENL 1 (Intro to Composition) ENL 3 (Introduction to Literature) Courses TA'd: Intro to Drama, Milton, African-American Literature
Catherine Fung cmfung@ucdavis.edu San Jose, CA	B.A. English and World Literature, University of California, Los Angeles Scholarly interests: Asian American literature, Postcolonial theory and literature, 20th-Century American literature Teaching Experience Classes taught: ENL 1: (Intro to Composition) Classes TA'd: 20th C. British, 20th C. American, various courses for the Asian American Studies program.
Alysia Garrison agarrison@ucdavis.edu St. Paul, MN	B.A., English & Biology with core in Women’s & Gender Studies: Macalester College Scholarly Interests: 20th-century British & American literature (especially post-war fiction), postcolonial theory & literature (esp. black British, Caribbean, and African American transnational literature), critical theory, feminism & gender studies. Teaching Experience: Courses TA'd: Introduction to Theory, 20th-century British Novels, and The Irish Literary Revival
John Garrison jsgarrison@ucdavis.edu San Francisco, CA	B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley Scholarly Interests: Gender, desire and power in British and Spanish literature, the fantastic; the Early Modern period.
Tiffany Gilmore tbgilmore@ucdavis.edu Oxford, OH	B.A., English Literature, Miami University Scholarly Interests: Haiti, trauma, cultural memory, postcolonialism, gender studies, cannibalism and 20th century literature. Teaching Experience Courses TA'd: Intro to Drama, 19th Century Novel, 19th-century British Literature, U.C. Davis
Jenni G Halpin jghalpin@ucdavis.edu Redlands, CA	B.A., English, University of Redlands M.A., English, University of California, Davis Scholarly Interests: Science and literature; 20th-century literature (esp. British, Irish, and Anglophone); deconstruction; relativity, quantum physics, and the histories thereof; time and spacetime; modernism and postmodernism; postcolonialism; posthumanism; science fiction Teaching Experience: Courses taught: ENL 1 - Expository Writing ENL 3 - Introduction to Literature Courses TA'd: Introduction to Drama Approaches to Reading Renaissance Literature: The Sonnet
Courtney Hopf clhopf@ucdavis.edu Rochester, NY	B.A., English, Mount Holyoke College M.A., English, University of East Anglia (Norwich, England) Scholarly interests: 20th-century British and American literature and culture, contemporary collaborative and interactive literatures, and narratology. Teaching Experience: Courses taught: UWP 1 (Expository Writing) Courses TA'd: Shakespeare (later works), Film History 1945-present, American Literature 1945-present.
Jessica Howell jhowell@ucdavis.edu Santa Cruz, CA	B.A., Intensive Literature with a Creative Writing (poetry) emphasis, University of California, Santa Cruz (2001). M.A., English, UC Davis (2004). MA thesis title: "Fatal Skins: Richard Burton's Colonial Lexicon" Scholarly Interest: Victorian literature and travel narratives; representations of disease and contagion; postcolonial theory and texts; Creative Writing (poetry and poetics). Teaching Experience: Courses taught: ENL 1 (Composition) UCD Courses TA'd: English 42A Approaches to Reading Victorian Literature Shakespeare
Darcy Irvin dlirvin@ucdavis.edu Los Angeles, CA	B. A., English Literature and Art History, University of California, Los Angeles (2002) M. A., English Literature, UC Davis (2004) Scholarly Interests: Illustration and visual culture; the Victorian novel; detective fiction; satire; film; Thomas Hardy Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1 (Expository Writing) Advanced Composition: The Short Story 20th Century American Satire Cultural Studies: 20th Century America Courses TA'd: Introduction to Poetry Multi-Ethnic Literature Film History II
Kristian Jensen kejensen@ucdavis.edu Santa Cruz, CA	B.A., Literature and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, (2001) Scholarly Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature, Native American literature, African American literature, literature as social protest, Shakespeare, Colonial American literature Teaching Experience: Courses taught: ENL 1 (Expository Writing) Courses TA'd: Intro to Shakespeare, Intro to Poetry, Approaches to Reading
Anett Jessop akjessop@ucdavis.edu	B.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN M.A., English/creative writing emphasis (poetry), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Scholarly Interests: Language, poetry and poetics; 20th-century American Literature; Modernism; Persian poetry; Feminist Studies Publications: “Forugh Farrokhzad,” “Nima Yushij,” Companion to 20th-Century World Poetry, Ed. R. Victoria Arana, Facts on File, Inc., forthcoming. “Laura (Riding) Jackson,” “Mina Loy,” Encyclopedia of American Literature, Ed. Jay Parini, Oxford University Press, 2003. “Sandra McPherson,” Contemporary American Women Poets, Greenwood Press, 2002.
Jennifer Jones jdjones@ucdavis.edu Norman, OK	B. of Musical Arts, Flute, University of Oklahoma B.A. English, University of Oklahoma Scholarly Interests: The Victorian Novel, Aesthetics and Literature, Realism, Philosophy and Literature Teaching Experience: Courses taught: English 1 (Expository Writing) English 3 (Introduction to Literature) Courses TA'd: Introduction to Critical Theory Romantic Poetry Introduction to Drama
Jessica Hope Jordan jhjordan@ucdavis.edu Silver Spring, Maryland	B.A., English, Summa Cum Laude, University of the Pacific B.A., Film Studies,Summa Cum Laude, University of the Pacific M.A. English, University of California, Davis A.B.D., English, University of California, Davis Scholarly Interests: 19th-century American Literature, Film Theory & Aesthetics, Literature & Film, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, Literature by Women, British & American Romanticism, Ecocriticism, Renaissance. Publications: "'Flowers in the Mills': Cultivating the Minds and Morality of Nineteenth- Century American Factory Girls." Forthcoming. (2007). "Women Refusing the Gaze: Theorizing Thryth's Unqueenly Custom in 'Beowulf' and The Bride's Revenge in Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill, Vol. I.'" The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe. Vol.9 (January 2006). (ISSN 1526-1867) "Women Refusing the Gaze in 'Beowulf' and Tarantino's 'Kill Bill, Volume 1'." Conference Proceedings. Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities. 2005. (ISSN 1541-5899). "Blood Fetish in the Cinema of Martin Scorsese." Conference Proceedings. Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities. 2004. (ISSN 1541- 5899). Selected University Small Press Publications: "Islands in the Stream: Sarah Orne Jewett’s 'The Country of the Pointed Firs.’” Hansen Prize for Writing. (1998). "Nightmare of the Abyss: Prefiguration of the Descent into Irrationality in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Hansen Prize for Writing. (1998). "'Eternity in Our Eyes':William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra." Hansen Prize for Writing. (1997). Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: ENL 1 (Composition) UCD, ENL 3 (Introduction to Literature) Courses TA'd (UCD): Film History to 1945 Romantic Literature Gender and Sexuality in Film
Lynn Langmade ltlangmade@ucdavis.edu Lafayette, CA	B.A., English, Honors, University of California, Berkeley M.A., English, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Scholarly Interests: American Renaissance, Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Identity Philosophy, Diasporic Nationalism and Disability Studies; Monstrosity and the Gothic; African-American Literature and Critical Race Theory; Modernism and Avant-Garde Poetics; Hypertext Theory and Materialist Feminist Theory Teaching Experience: UWP 1 (Introduction to Expository Writing)
Andrea Caroline Lawson aclawson@ucdavis.edu Los Angeles, CA	B.A., English and World Literature University of California, Los Angeles Scholarly Interests: Renaissance literature, and Feminist Criticism. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: English 1 (Expository Writing), UCD English 3 (Introduction to Literature), UCD
Nick Luker njluker@ucdavis.edu Merced, CA	B.A., English, University of California, Davis, 2002 M.A., English, University of California, Davis, 2005 Scholarly Interests: Shakespeare (particular emphasis on the Sonnets), Critical Theory (issues of legality, community, the animal, and "rights"), Early Modern Drama Teaching Experience: Courses taught: English 1: Introduction to Expository Writing Instructor Courses TA'd: English 122: Milton Psychology 142/Human Development 102: Social and Personality Development Psychology 155: Environmental Awareness (Reader)
Tony R. Magagna trmagagna@ucdavis.edu Rock Springs, WY	B.A., English, University of Wyoming, 2001 M.A., English from UC Davis, 2003 Scholarly Interests: Literature of the West/California; landscape; place/space; human geography; religious crises in modern American literature; 20th-century American literature Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: English 1 (ExpositoryWriting) English 3 (Introduction to Literature), Humanities 1/1D: The Late, Great State of California Courses TA'd: TA'd or read for multiple Literature of California classes, as well as for various 20th-century American literature courses and introductory drama courses. Research Assistant: The Literature of California, Vol. 2 (forthcoming, UC Press), California Poetry (Heyday Books, 2003), Teaching the Sun Also Rises (U of Idaho Press, 2003). Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)
Mindi McMann mrmcmann@ucdavis.edu Seward, NE	B.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln M.A., University of Kansas Scholarly interests: 20th-century British and Irish literature; Contemporary British and Irish Prose; Representations of class in literature. Courses TA'd: Masterpieces of English Literature, 20th-century British Novel, British Literature: 1945-Present
Nathan E. Milos nemilos@ucdavis.edu Lead, SD	B.A. English, Black Hills State University Scholarly Interests: Poetry (20th-century and Contemporary, American and British). Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: English 1 ( Expository Writing) English 3 (Introduction to Literature) Courses TA'd: Intro to Poetry, Approaches to Reading, Intro to Fiction.
Kelly Neil kmneil@ucdavis.edu Greensboro, NC	B.A., English and M.A.,English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Scholarly Interests: Early Modern poetry (particulary women writers and metaphysical poets), postcolonial theory, and cultural studies.
Eric O'Brien eeobrien@ucdavis.edu Omaha, NE	B.A. English, University of Nebraska Scholarly Interests: Wordsworth and Romanticism, Ecocriticism, Wilderness Narratives and Advocacy, Creative Non-Fiction. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: English 1 ( Expository Writing), UC Davis Courses TA'd: Principles of Criticism, 19th-century British Novel, UC Davis
Ryan Page rhpage@ucdavis.edu Tracy, CA	B.A., English, U of Hawaii M.F.A., Dramatic Art, U of Hawaii M.A., Dramatic Art, Stanford M.A., English, CSU East Bay Scholarly Interests: Performance Theory, Postmodernism, 19th & 20th-century American Literature, Film Studies, Narratology.
Genevieve Beach Pearson gbpearson@ucdavis.edu San Diego, CA	B.A., English, University of California, Santa Barbara Scholarly Interests: Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature. Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, race discourse, early modern economic and social influences on literature. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: English 1 (Expository Writing), UC Davis. Courses TA'd: ENL 46A (Masterpieces of English Literature to 1640), Fall 04. ENL117B Middle works of Shakespeare, ENL 181A African American Literature through the Harlem Renaissance, UC Davis.
Vanessa Rapatz vlrapatz@ucdavis Browerville, MN	B.A. English, San Francisco State University M.A. Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz Scholarly Interests: Early Modern British Literature, especially Renaissance and Restoration drama, female spaces of enclosure, liminality, dramatic form, and historiography Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: English 1 (Expository Writing) Courses TA'd: Introduction to Drama, Shakespeare's Middle Plays
Karolyn Reddy kreddy@ucdavis.edu Syracuse, NY	B.A., English, Minor in Critical Discourse Studies, Alfred University, Alfred, NY Scholarly Interests: 18th-century literature, literary and critical theory, gender and sexuality, development of the novel.
Katie Rodger karodger@ucdavis.edu Andover, MA	B.A., Literature ,University of California, San Diego M.A., English, San Jose State University, Scholarly Interests: California Literature, Lit and the Environment, 19th- & 20th-century American Literature Publications: Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts (U Alabama P, 2002); Editor, Riparian Writing (Davis, 2004); Breaking Through: The Collected Major Essays of Edward F. Ricketts (forthcoming UC Press) Teaching Experience: Classes Taught: ENL 1 (Expository Writing)
Christopher Schaberg csschaberg@ucdavis.edu Leland, MI	B.A.,Philosophy and English, Hillsdale College, MI M.A., English, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT Scholarly Interests: 20th- & 21st-century American literature, especially Environmental Literature, postmodern Hemingway, and texts on mobility. My dissertation is on airports in American literature. Teaching Experience: Courses taught: Expository Writing (2001 - present) ENL 3: Introduction to Literature (2004 - present) ENL 4: Ideologies of Transport (Fall 2006) Courses TA'd: English 177: Hemingway Seminar
Melissa J. Strong mjstrong@ucdavis.edu Middletown, CT	B.A., English, Central Connecticut State University M.A., English, University of California, Davis Scholarly Interests: 19th- and early 20th-century American literature and culture, class, aesthetics, taste education and elevation, art history, gender studies, Civil War nursing narratives. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: English 1 (ExpositoryWriting) English 4 (Special Topic: Sex in the City American Women's Modernity) English 3 (Introduction to Literature) Courses TA'd: The American Novel to 1900 Literature by Women Approaches to Reading Introduction to Drama History of the English Language Introduction to Women's Studies Survey of American Literature Other Experience: Teaching Assistant Consultant, English Department
Candace Hull Taylor chtaylor@ucdavis.edu Roseville, CA	B. A., English, Magna Cum Laude, Westmont College K-12 Single Subject Credential, English: University of California, Los Angeles M. A., English, with Honors: California State University, Sacramento Scholarly Interests: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature and manuscript studies, pre- and post Reformation theology, Medieval rhetoric, Medieval reading praxes, Medieval and Early Modern allegory, reception theory, and composition pedagogy. Teaching Experience: Courses taught: Composition Courses: English 57 (2002); English 1 (ExpositoryWriting) 2001-2003 English 3 (Introduction to Literature) 2002 – present), UC Davis Courses TA'd: English 113B (Canterbury Tales) Fall 2003, Summer 2004, Spring 2005 English 113A (Chaucer’s Other Poems) Fall 2004, UC Davis Other Experience: Writing Coordinator for the UC Davis COSMOS Program (Summer of 2001 and 2002), UC Davis Selected Conference Papers: International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 4-8, 2004. Reading Praxis and the Ordering of Bodley 34: Anthologizing with a Purpose. American Academy of Religion International Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. November 22-25, 2003. Julian of Norwich and Her Many Readers. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, Claremont College, Claremont, CA. November 7-10, 2003. Dangerous Liaisons: Fictive Praxis, Affect and Piety. British Women Writers Association, University of Wisconsin, Madison. April 19-21, 2002. Failure and Contradiction as Catalyst in the Liminal Experience: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Personal Letters and A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA. March 22-23, 2002. Beowulf’s Gumcyste: Listening to and Imitating Story: ‘Worda and Worka’ as One. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, Santa Clara University, CA. November 9-11, 2001. Beowulf’s Self-Fashioning as Mythmaking and Gift.
Daniel Thomas-Glass dthomasglass@ucdavis.edu Berkeley, CA	B.A., University of California at Berkeley Scholarly interests: 20th and 21st -century American poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on material histories, urbanism, collectivities, and sound. Teaching Experience: ENL/UWP1 (Expository Writing)
Grace Tirapelle gtirapelle@ucdavis.edu Fresno, CA	B.A., American Literature and Culture, UCLA, 2003 B.A., History, UCLA, 2003 M.A., English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005 Scholarly Interests: 19th and 20th-Century American literature, contemporary American fiction, U.S. regionalisms
Clara S. Van Zanten csvanzanten@ucdavis.edu Evanston, IL	B.A.,English, Oberlin College, 2001 Scholarly Interests: Poetry & Weather, Poetics, Critical Theory Teaching Experience: Courses taught : English 1 (ExpositoryWriting) Courses TA'd: Introduction to Poetry, Late 19th-century American literature, Modern American literature
Kaitlin Walker klnwalker@ucdavis.edu Carmichael, CA	B.A., Literataure, UC Santa Barbara, Minor in Women, Culture and Development Scholarly Interests: Feminist theory, 20th-Century American literature, poetry, economics, Brazilian literature, Chaucer.
Mary Ellen Williams mmwilliams@ucdavis.edu Boston, MA	B.A., English and Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, Boston University Scholarly interests: Romanticism; Literary and Critical Theory; Poetics; Modernism; Existentialism; Symbol, Myth and Ritual
Jennifer Wilson jrwwilson@ucdavis.edu Lee, FL and Auburn, KY	B.A., English and Psychology; and B.S., Sociology, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida Scholarly interests: Film and media studies, feminist and queer theory, 20th-century literature, critical theory. Teaching Experience: Courses TA'd: ENL46C (Masterpieces of British Literature) ENL142 (Puritan Literature) ENL185B (Literature by Women).

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