Welcome to Books of the Month, where once a month, L&S staff select works from our Bookshelf of authors within the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. This month, we are celebrating art and art history spanning centuries from ancient and medieval times around the world through to modern-day California.
Welcome to Books of the Month, where once a month, L&S staff select works from our Bookshelf of authors within the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. We're hoping to read more fiction this summer, so our July selections include novels from faculty in the Department of English and Department of Chicana/o/x Studies as well as graduates of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program.
This month’s "Books of the Month" features works authored or edited by L&S faculty from the arts, humanities and social sciences and have been selected in honor of Asian American Pacific islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. From the poetic to the analytical, L&S scholars unearth untold stories from the U.S., China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and beyond.
Welcome to Books of the Month, a book club curated monthly with works from authors within the College of Letters & Science at UC Davis. This April, we honor Arab American Heritage Month with selections highlighting activist history within Arab American communities and abroad, as well as multiple cultural histories.
Welcome to Books of the Month, a book club curated monthly with works from authors within the College of Letters & Science at UC Davis. This March, we honor Women's History Month with selections highlighting the contributions of women over time.
Our February 2025 "Books of the Month" selections honor Black History Month. Get familiar with some lesser known aspects of American history, celebrate song and dance, or immerse yourself in someone else’s story. This month’s reads include cultural and historical analyses as well as two memoirs, a biography and a novel.
With the start of the new year and upcoming presidential inauguration, we’ve chosen to focus on politics, advocacy and community organizing. At the College of Letters and Science, we’re thinking deeply about these topics and the work of our faculty and lecturers demonstrates just that.
Welcome to "Books of the Month," where once a month, College of Letters and Science staff select works from our Bookshelf of L&S authors. Through poetry, explore narratives that traverse hard topics such as mourning and the struggles of motherhood, as well as topics such as a young girl befriending a donkey in a lyrical fable.
Welcome to Books of the Month, where once a month, L&S staff select works from our Bookshelf of UC Davis authors. Our November 2024 selections are in honor of National Native American Heritage Month.
In our first edition of "Books of the Month," the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis celebrates L&S authors researching issues related to Chicana/o and Latin American studies in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Find more L&S authors on our "Bookshelf."
