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Senate Faculty
Don Abbott (Director, Nature & Culture) Rm. 285 Voorhies 530-752-6097 dpabbott@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D.(U. of Massachusetts); History of Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory, Renaissance Literature Freedom of Speech
Gina Bloom Rm. 269 Voorhies (530) 752-0698 gbloom@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (U. of Michigan); Early modern literature; drama; performance theory
Nathan Brown Rm. 264 Voorhies 530-752-9725 ntbrown@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (UCLA); 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature, Experimental Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary Philosophy and Critical Theory, Science/Technology Studies, Avant-Garde Modernisms
Seeta Chaganti Rm. 275 Voorhies 530-752-0386 schaganti@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Yale); Old and Middle English Poetry, Late Medieval Drama, English & French Arthurian romance, Medieval Religious and Material Culture
Joshua Clover Rm. 210 Voorhies 530-754-6900 jclover@ucdavis.edu	MFA (U. of Iowa); Creative writing (poetry), poetics, postmodernism, film and media studies, critical theory
Lucy Corin Rm. 215 Voorhies 530-754-5862 lcorin@ucdavis.edu	MFA (Brown); Creative writing (novel and short story); contemporary fiction
Joanne Feit Diehl Rm. 271 Voorhies 530-752-2249 jfdiehl@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Yale); American Literature, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Poetry
Greg Dobbins Rm. 213 Voorhies 530-752-5944 gjdobbins@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Duke); 20th-c. Irish & British Literature, Modernism, Postcolonial Theory & Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory
Frances E. Dolan Rm. 262 Voorhies 530-754-4897 fdolan@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (U. of Chicago); Early modern, law, crime and violence, print culture, drama, gender and confessional identity, feminist theory, cultural studies
Margaret Ferguson, Chair Rm. 166 Voorhies 530-752-1696 mwferguson@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Yale); Renaissance, Milton, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies
Kathleen Frederickson Rm. 268 Voorhies 530-752-5469 kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (U. Chicago); Victorian literature and culture; feminist and queer studies; the history of biology, psychology, and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.
Lynn R. Freed Rm. 253 Voorhies 530-752-4354 lrfreed@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Columbia); Creative Writing, 20th-century Fiction, South African Fiction
Elizabeth Freeman Rm. 278 Voorhies 530-754-9198 esfreeman@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (U Chicago); 19th-century American Literature, Gender & Sexuality, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
W. Jack Hicks Rm. 274 Voorhies 530-752-1658 wjhicks@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (North Carolina); Creative Writing, Contemporary American literature, Literature of Nature/Wilderness, Literature of California
Pam Houston Rm. 251 Voorhies 530-752-3334 plhouston@ucdavis.edu	M.A. (University of Utah); Creative writing (fiction, nonfiction & plays), modernism, contemporary fiction, the short story, wilderness literature
Hsuan L. Hsu Rm. 258 Voorhies hlhsu@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (UC Berkeley); 19th & 20th-century U.S. literature, Asian American Literature, cultural geography, visual culture, comparative racialization, and theories of globalization.
Mark Jerng Rm. 272 Voorhies 530-752-4124 mcjerng@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Harvard); Asian American literature; American literature and culture; narrative theory; transnationalism; psychoanalytic theory; law and literature
Alessa Johns Rm. 266 Voorhies 530-752-7962 amjohns@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (UC Berkeley); 18th-century English Literature and Culture; Women Writers: Utopianism, Disaster
Richard A. Levin Rm. 260 Voorhies 530-752-8245 ralevin@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Stanford); Early Modern Literature with emphasis on Shakespeare and Drama
Yiyun Li Rm. 214 Voorhies 530-752-0997 yiyli@ucdavis.edu	M.F.A. (Peking University, Beijing, China);creative non-fiction and fiction.
Christopher Loar Rm. 212 Voorhies (530) 752-5931 cfloar@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (UCLA); 18th-century literature; critical theory
Desirée Martín Rm. 279 Voorhies 530-752-7032 dmartin@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Duke); U.S.-Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theatre; subaltern studies
John Marx Rm. 216 Voorhies 530-752-5982 jmarx@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Brown); Modernism; Postcolonial theory & literature; the novel.
Colin Milburn Rm. 273 Voorhies 530-752-2268 cnmilburn@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Harvard); Relations of literature and science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of physics; posthumanism
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller Rm. 276 Voorhies 530-752-4295 ecmill@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (U. Wisconsin - Madison); Nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century British literature and culture, gender studies, film and visuality, print culture and politics.
Timothy Morton Rm. 211 Voorhies 530-754-6901 tbmorton@ucdavis.edu	D. Phil. (Oxford); Literature and the environment, theories of ecology, Romanticism, literatures and cultures of food and diet, literary and cultural theory
Catherine Robson cmrobson@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (UC Berkeley); 19th-century British Literature, Victorian Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Parama Roy Rm. 255 Voorhies 530-752-6337 proy@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (U. of Rochester): Postcolonial theory and literatures; Victorian literature; Cultural Studies; feminist studies.
Winfried Schleiner Rm. 259 Voorhies 530-752-5575 whschleiner@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Brown); Early Modern Literature, Comparative Literature, Iconography, Gender Studies, History of Medicine
Scott C. Shershow Rm. 256 Voorhies 530-752-3269 scshershow@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D.(Harvard); Critical theory, cultural studies, history and theory of drama, Renaissance
Scott Simmon Rm. 254 Voorhies 530-754-8911 sasimmon@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (UC Davis); Film Studies, American Culture, 20th-century American Literature
David Simpson Rm. 261 Voorhies 530-752-1195 desimpson@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Cambridge); Romanticism, Literary Theory
Matthew Stratton Rm. 281 Voorhies 530-752-5677 mstratton@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison);Twentieth-Century American literature and literary culture.
Christopher Thaiss Director, Univ.Writing Program Rm. 171 Voorhies 530-754-9197 cjthaiss@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Northwestern); Rhetoric and composition; writing in the disciplines; business and professional writing
David Van Leer Rm. 263 Voorhies 530-754-8253 dmvanleer@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Cornell);Cultural Studies; Sexuality Studies (LGBT); Critical Theory; Film Theory;American Literature and Culture 1600-1860; Philosophy and Religion; Music; 20th-C. Popular Culture, especially theater and film.
Claire Waters Graduate Advisor Rm. 160 Voorhies 530-752-2-5599 cmwaters@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Northwestern); Medieval Comparative Literature, Chaucer, Medieval Religious Culture, Gender Studies
Evan Watkins Rm. 283 Voorhies 530-752-0343 epwatkins@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Iowa); Literacy Theory & Composition Theory, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies
Joe Wenderoth Rm. 208 Voorhies 530-754-6898 jlwenderoth@ucdavis.edu	MFA (Warren Wilson College); Creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay), Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Toni Morrison
Alan B. Williamson Rm. 267 Voorhies 530-752-8405 abwilliamson@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Harvard); 20th-century English and American Literature, Creative Writing, Comparative Literature
Michael Ziser Rm. 209 Voorhies 530-754-6899 mgziser@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Harvard); American literature before 1900, literature and the environment, ecocriticism

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Post Doctorals, Teaching Fellows, and Temporary Teaching Faculty
Jodi Angel	Summer Session II, 2008 Office: Rm.253, (530) 752-4354
Brynne Gray	Summer Session I, 2008, Office: Rm.253, (530) 752-4354
Dana Fore	Summer Session II, 2008, Office: 253 Voorhies, (530) 7524354
Greg Miller	Summer Session I, 2008 Office: Rm. 392 Voorhies, (530-754-6551)
Karma Waltonen	Summer Session I, 2008 Office: Rm. 355 Voorhies, (530-754-6790)

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Emeriti Faculty
William Max Byrd
Peter Dale	(Cambridge); 19th-century English Literature and Intellectual History, Literary Theory
Sandra Gilbert
Thomas Hanzo
Wayne Harsh
John Hayden
Peter Hays	Modern American Literature, Drama
Michael Hoffman	Modern American and British Literature, Holocaust literature and film
Robert Hopkins
Clarence Major	(Union Graduate School); American Literature, Creative Writing, African American Literature
Sandra McPherson sandyjmc@mindspring.com	B.A. (San Jose State); Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics, 20th-century Women Poets
Linda Morris	American humor, Mark Twain, African American writers, 19th-c. American women's literature
Jerry Murphy
Marijane Osborn mjosborn@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Stanford); Old and Middle English Literature and Language
David Robertson	20th-C. American literature, Bible as literature, nature in American culture
Gwendolyn Schwabe
Daniel Silvia
Gary Snyder
Raymond Waddington
James Woodress
Karl Zender kfzender@ucdavis.edu	Ph.D. (Iowa); American Literature, William Faulkner, Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare

Other News:
Patricia L. Moran plmoran@ucdavis.edu Note: Accepted position at University of Limerick	Ph.D. (UC Berkeley); Women Writers, Feminist, Theory, 20th-Century British Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Modernism, Short Story, Psychoanalytic Theory
Riché Richardson rrichardson@ucdavis.edu Note: Accepted position at Cornell University	Ph.D.(Duke); African American Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Feminism & Gender Studies, Southern Studies

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