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

M.A. (Creative Writing)
Brian Ang bdang@ucdavis.edu Yuba City, CA	B.A., English, University of California, Davis Interests: Contemporary poetry, poetry and politics, avant-garde poetry.
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.
Melissa Chordas mnchordas@ucdavis.edu	B.A., English (creative writing emphasis), University of California, Davis. Interests: Children's literature; community arts, contemporary fiction, dogs, illustrating, place-based stories, mushroom hunting, and traveling.
Ashley Clarke aclarke@ucdavis.edu Stockton, CA	B.A., with Honors, English (creative writing emphasis), Minor in Religions Studies, University of California, Davis Interests: Writing fiction, California literature, folk fairy tales, contemporary literature, religious studies, gender studies, dramatic art.
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, history, sports and Highway to Heaven.
Sadie Hoagland sjhoagland@ucdavis.edu Salt Lake City, UT	B.A., Psychology & French, Middlebury College, Vermont Interests: Fiction, Poetry, creative Non-Fiction.
Emily Hughes ewhughes@ucdavis.edu Agua Caliente, CA	B.A., English (emphasis in creative writing), Minor: Psychology, University of California, Davis, 2008 Interests: Poetry, creative non-fiction, teaching, backpacking, hunting, open water swimming, used bookstores, animal behavior, modern art.
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.
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.
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: Medieval and Early Modern literature, especially excess and morality, questions of personal authenticity, and the roles of women and religion or myth. Teaching Experience: Courses TA'd: ENL 113B: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales ENL 46A: Masterpieces of English Literature, 1640-1832 ENL 111: Topics in Medieval Literature
Valerie Billing vcbilling@ucdavis.edu Urbana, IL	B.A., English, University of Illinois Scholarly Interests: Early Modern British and Spanish drama and poetry, women writers, gender and sexuality, discourses of the body, performance theory, and comparative studies.
Russell Backman rabackman@ucdavis.edu Bay Area, CA	B.A., English, UC Berkeley, 2003 M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago, 2006 Scholarly Interests: Novel Theory (The Encyclopedic Novel), 20th-Century American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Critical Theory, Postmodernism
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: Early Modern British, 19th-Century American, Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality. Courses TA'd: ENL 117C (Late Shakespeare) ENL 137N (Modernism) ENL 45 (Introduction to Poetry)
Collin Davey cddavey@ucdavis.edu Tacoma, WA	B.A., English and French, Middle Tennessee State University Scholarly Interests: Medieval French and English literature; folk literature; myth; literature of the fantastic; structuralists theory; story, meaning, and transcendence.
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 M.A., English, University of California, Davis Scholarly Interests: Contemporary British literature, Victorian literature, Postcolonial literature and theory, Critical Gender and Queer Studies. I'm working on a dissertation that examines the cultural and literary afterlife of the Victorian period in contemporary Britain through the lenses of empire and masculinity. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1: Expository Writing ENL 3: Introduction to Literature Courses TA'd: 20th-C. British Novel Introduction to Critical Theory World Literature in English Colonialism and Masculinity
Shannon Osborne Ford sford@ucdavis.edu Orange County, CA	B.A., California State University, Fullerton, CA. M.A., California State University Fullerton, CA. Scholarly Interests: Early Modern British Literature; Women writers; Feminism and Gender theory; Women's relationships to literary precedents and traditions; Islam and early modern representations of Muslims. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1: Expository Writing ENL 3: Introduction to Literature Courses TA'd: English 117C: Shakespeare's Later Works Humanities 13: Witches
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
Andrew Hageman Decorah, IA achageman@ucdavis.edu	B.A., English, St. Olaf College, Northfield, NM M.A., English, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Scholarly Interests: Twentieth-century American literature and film (William Gibson, David Lynch, & c.). ecocriticism, and the intersections of technology, ecology, and ideology in cultural texts. I recently had an article on ecocriticism, cinema, and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive in the June 2008 issue (ll) of Scope. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1 (Expository Writing) Courses TA'd: Survey of American Literature, pre-1865, ENL 159: The Novel as Narrative of Moral Discovery ENL 160: Film as Narrative--Cinematic Representations of Poverty in America
Jenni G Halpin jghalpin@ucdavis.edu Redlands, CA	B.A., English, University of Redlands M.A., English, University of California, Davis Scholarly Interests: Modernist, postmodernist, and post-colonial literature; drama; science and literature; temporality; uncertainty; deconstruction and the structure of the decision; post-Cold War physics plays; and science fiction. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: ENL 1: Expository Writing UWP 101: Advanced Writing ENL 3: Introduction to Literature ENL 4: Special Topic: Playing (with Science: Relations between Science and Drama Courses TA'd: Introduction to Drama Approaches to Reading Renaissance Literature: The Sonnet The Eighteenth-Century Novel Romanticism Modernism
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, Ph.D. jhowell@ucdavis.edu Santa Cruz, CA Post Doctoral 2008-2009	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: UWP 1 (Expository Writing) ENL 3 (Introduction to Literature) 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) M.A., English, University of California, UC Davis 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: UWP 1: (Expository Writing) ENL 3: Introduction to Literature) Introduction to the Short Story Native American Fiction and Autobiography-American Folklore: African American, Native American and Euro-American Folklore Cultural Studies: 20th-Century American 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.
Dyani Johns djohns@ucdavis.edu Montpelier, VT	B.A., English, Minor in Dance, Summa Cum Laude, Skidmore College Scholarly Interests: Early modern literature, Milton, Latin American literature and poetry, translation and translation theory.
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
Nicole Kenley nmkenley@ucdavis.edu	B.A., English and French, UC Berkeley, 2006 M.A., English, New York University, 2007 Scholarly Interests: 19th-and 20th-century American literature, literature of California, hardboiled fiction in general and Raymond Chandler in particular, children's literature, gender theory, French collaborationist literature.
Sarah Klotz seklotz@ucdavis.edu Manassas, VA	B.A., English, Minor in Women's Studies, College of William and Mary, VA. Scholarly Interests: 29th-Century American women's poetry, gender, sexuality, activism.
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
Angela Hume Lewandowski amlewandowski@ucdavis.edu Saint Paul, MN	B.S., Drake University, Des Moines, IA M.F.A., Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA Scholarly Interests: The 21st-C. lyric poem; violence, violation, and 20th-C. poetry; 20th-C. women's writing; Postmodernism.
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, Ph.D.h.D. trmagagna@ucdavis.edu Rock Springs, WY Post-Doctoral, 2008-2009	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 British literataure, gender and suicide, private and publis spaces, the theatre. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1: Expository Writing Courses TA'd: ENL 111: Medieval Literature ENL 117A: Early Shakespeare ENL 115: Great Works of the Renaissance
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.
Ryan Poll rhpoll@ucdavis.edu Chicago, IL	B.A., English With Honors (Minor in Philosophy), Emory University, M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago Scholarly Interests: Twentiety-Century U.S. Literature; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Narrative Theory; Historical Memory; Social Geography; Narratives of Globalization.
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: American Literature, U.S. Literature of the Pacific Ocean, California Literature, Literature and the Environment Selected Publications: "A Shared Poetic: The Influence of Ricketts's Literary Philosophy on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath." Forthcoming in Dialogue: The Grapes of Wrath (Rodopi Press, 2009). Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts (U. of California Press, 2006) Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts (U. of Alabama Press, 2002); Review of The Tidepool and The Stars: The Ecological Basis of Steinbeck's Depression Novels. (Steinbeck Studies. Fall, 2002) Teaching Experience: Classes Taught: ENL 3: Introduction to Literature UWP 1: (Expository Writing) Courses TA'd: ENL 182: The Literature of California HUM 1: The Late, Great State of California
McKenna Rose msrose@ucdavis.edu Reno, NV	B.A., English, University of Nevada M.A., English, University of Nevada Scholarly Interests: 16th and 17th-C. British drama, prose, and poetry; utopias; domestic architecture; fashion; things; and textual studies.
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: American literature, ecological criticism, and the production of space. My dissertation explores the ambiguities of airports in American literature and culture. Teaching Experience: Courses taught: ENL 3: Introduction to Literature ENL 4: Critical Inquiry, "Ideologies of Transport" UWP 101: Advanced Composition UWP 1: Expository Writing Courses TA'd: ENL 177: Single Author Seminar on Ernest Hemingway ENL 110B: Introduction to Principles of Criticism
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
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
Julie Tran jhtran@ucdavis.edu	B.A., English, University of California, Irvine, M.A., English, California State University, Long Beach Scholarly Interests: 20th-C. American literature, postmodernism, science fiction, cyberpunk, and Derridean and political theory. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1: Expository Writing ENL 3: Introduction to Literature Courses TA'd: Introduction to Drama Science Fiction 20th-C. American Literature
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
Heather Van Zee hgvanzee@ucdavis.edu Hayfork, CA	B.A., Literature and Theatre, Reed College, Portland, OR. Scholarly Interests: Science fiction, feminist theory, post-humanism
Kaitlin Walker klnwalker@ucdavis.edu Carmichael, CA	B.A., CCS Literature, UC Santa Barbara; Minor in Women, Culture and Development Scholarly Interests: Feminist theory,gender theory, 20th-C. American literature,Indigenous literatures, poetry, economics, labor, Brazilian literature, Chaucer. Teaching Experience: Courses Taught: UWP 1: Expository Writing Courses TA'd: Introduction to Drama American Literature Survey (1860-present)
Bryan Wallis bvwallis@ucdavis.edu Maeser, UT	B.A., English , University of Utah, Salt Lake City M.A., Environmental Humanities, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Scholarly Interests: Literature and environment, religion and environment, agrarianism, Greek classics.
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).
Bryan Yazell bgyazell@ucdavis.edu Chino, CA	B.A., English, Summa Cum Laude, University of California, Irvine. Scholarly Interests: Modernism; representations of race and culture in British and American literature.

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