Please see the University of California Academic Council’s “The Defense of the University” (April 8 2025), which calls for immediate, sustained, and collective action to defend the University of California:
“We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly . . . Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.”
Elizabeth Floyd, Bourgeois Like Me: Architecture, Literature, and the Making of the Middle Class in Post-War London
2018
Rebecca Christine Chenoweth, Memory on the Periphery of War: The Life Writing and Uncertainty of Peripheral Witnesses in British Literature of World Wars I and II
Jonathan James Forbes, Feeling Bureaucratic: Political Poetry, Affective Rhetoric, and Parliamentary Process in Late Medieval England
Colton Scott Saylor, Unsettling Racial Capitalism: Horror in African American and Native American Fiction
2017
Elizabeth C. Allen, Generosity and Belonging in Post-colonial Ireland and South Africa
Shay M. Hopkins, Making Local: The Politics of Place in Anglo-Norman Hagiography
Rachel Louise Levinson-Emley, The Wound That Makes Whole: Bleeding and Intersubjectivity in Middle English Romance
Nicholas F. Pici, Narrative (K)nots / Symbolic Seduction: Toward a Biopoetics of Second-Order Symbolism in the Storytelling Arts
Elizabeth Shayne, iTouch: Understanding the Role of Emotions in the Design and Reading of Digital Books