Working Groups

The UC Davis Humanities Institute supports faculty and graduate students in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences who are interested in forming reading, writing and/or collaboration groups. Groups apply for up to $500 to defray the costs of materials or refreshments associated with workshops or regular group meetings.

2022-23 Reading, Writing and/or Collaborative Groups

Albany-Davis Intercampus Working Conference Group, Stacy Baran (English)

Performative Writing, Performing Writing: Expanding the Field(s) of Academic Critical Writing, Jamie Davidson (Performance Studies Graduate Group)

210 Colloquium, Mary Elliott (Comparative Literature)

Teaching Inclusive Spanish at UC Davis, Lucas Ruppel (Spanish and Portuguese)

Comparative Media Studies, Mingrui Wen (Comparative Literature) and Max Gibson (Music)

Multilingual Writing Support Group, Ana Ruiz Alonso Bartol (Spanish and Portuguese)

Creative Methods Workshop, Christine Imperial (Cultural Studies Graduate Group)

Uncertainty and Disorientation Writing Group, Rebecca Jones (Anthropology)

DaGERS, Katelyn Antilla (Phlosophy)

UC Davis Latin America History Workshop 2022-2023: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a People’s History of Latin America and its Global Connections, Alvaro Grompone (History)

2019-20 Reading, Writing and/or Collaborative Groups

Writing Rural Modernities, Chunjie Zhang (German and Russian)

Reading Academic German, Aron Tillema and John Rundin (Classics)

DNA in Society, Emily Merchant (Science and Technology Studies)

Ecofeminist Speculative Fiction Reading Group, Rebecca Jones (Anthropology)

Book History and Material Culture in the Digital Age, Allison Fulton (English)

Environmental Affect, Rachael DeWitt (English)