About

Rebecca Davis is Associate Professor of English at UCI. She is completing a book titled Graceful Narratives, which explores how the theological idea of grace influenced literary form, specifically, narrative forms that are non-linear or suspend time, opening up possibilities for change and new narrative directions. Her first book, Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature (Oxford, 2016), examines the representation of creativity, nature, and ethics in William Langland’s Middle English poem. Her research interests include representations of thought and interiority in medieval allegory, drama, and dream vision; form, especially the mechanics of motion and plastic or porous forms; the phenomenology of fiction; representations of body and soul; and medieval notions of freedom, vulnerability, and liberality.

Research topics

• Biology
• Biochemistry
• Genetics
• Chemistry
• Molecular biology

Frequent coauthors

• Janet L. Ristow

  University of California, Irvine

  16 shared

• R L Weiss

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  12 shared

• Richard W. Hinde

  University of California, Los Angeles

  9 shared

• J.A. Jacobson

  9 shared

• Thomas J. Paulus

  8 shared

• Carole L. Cramer

  6 shared

• Val Woodward

  University of Plymouth

  5 shared

• J J DiGangi

  University of California, Irvine

  5 shared

Labs

• Rebecca Davis LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., English, Medieval Literature

  University of Notre Dame

  2006

Awards & honors

• Anne Middleton Book Prize for 2015-16 (2019)
• School of Humanities Teaching Award (2018)
• Hellman Fellowship, UCI (2014 Fellow)
• Professor of the Year, UCI (2013)
• Dean’s Honoree, Humanities Teaching Award, UCI (2013)

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