UC Davis English Department News

In 2012, Barbara Zimbalist will publish two essays in edited collections : “The Word of God and the Structure of the Text: Christ’s Speech in The Life of the Virgin Mary and the Christ, Trinity College Dublin MS 423,” in ‘Diuerse Imaginaciouns of Cristes Life’: Devotional Culture in England 1300-1550, edited by Stephen Kelly and Ryan Perry and forthcoming from Turnhout and “Imitating the Imagined: Clemence of Barking’s La Vie de St Catherine,” in Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women, edited by Margaret Cotter-Lynch and Bradley Herzog and forthcoming from Palgrave. Barbara spent the academic year of 2010-2011 as a gastonderzoeker at the Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. She is currently a visiting researcher at the Université de Liège, Belgium. She participated in the “Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Ireland, and Wales” conference in July 2011, and will give a talk based on her dissertation research for the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship at the 2012 MLA conference in Seattle.

Angela Hume Lewandowski’s article “(Rescuing) Hegel’s Magical
Thinking” is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the peer-reviewed
journal Evental Aesthetics themed “Hegelian Topics in Aesthetics”
(early 2012). Last summer, Angela received Honorable Mention in the Association for
the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Best Graduate Student
Scholarly Paper in Ecocriticism competition for her piece “The
Ecopoetics of Emergency.” In fall 2011, Angela saw the publication of a poetry chapbook, Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).  Last spring, Angela was selected by the English department for the Mainz Exchange Lectureship, and for the 2011-2012 academic year is serving as Lecturer in American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg
Universität in Mainz, Germany, teaching such classes as “Energy, Labor, and Environment in the 20th Century.”

Valerie Billing’s article ”‘Treble marriage’: Margaret Cavendish, William Newcastle, and Collaborative Authorship” appears in the Fall 2011 issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Billing is a Bilinski Fellow in the Department of English as well as one of three graduate students from the department named as 2011-2012 Mellon Fellows in the newly formed Mellon Research Initiative in Early Modern Studies at UC Davis.