Wally Wallis

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Wally Wallis

Lecturer

285 Voorhies
Office Hours
M 2-3:30 (Zoom), R 8:30-10 (Voorhies 285), & by appt.

Research Areas:

Gender and sexuality in early modern literature and culture

Teaching Areas:

Early English literature; gender and sexuality studies; genre studies; LGBTQ+ literature; queer theory; cultural literacies; multimodal writing; writing about media; trauma studies.

Biography:

Wally Wallis teaches writing and literature courses at UC Davis and Sierra College. Though he specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, history, and culture, Wallis has instructed courses in medieval, eighteenth-century, late Victorian, and LGBTQ+ world literature, developmental and advanced composition, writing about media, creative writing, feminist and sexuality studies, and liberal studies. As a promoter of public humanities, he believes in making academic work and conversations available and accessible to popular audiences.

Education:

B.A., Saint Michael's College, VT (2004)

M.A., Boston College (2007)

PhD, University of California, Davis (2019)