Faculty
Matthew H. Pangborn
Department Chair
University Hall 5063
(205) 934-4250
Gale Temple
Director of Undergraduate Studies
University Hall 5026
(205) 934-8593
Rebecca Ann Bach
Director of Graduate Studies
University Hall 5028
(205) 934-8594
Lilian Mina
Director of Freshman Composition
University Hall 5065
(205) 934-4250
Staff
Karen Coggin
Administrative Associate
(205) 934-5293
University Hall 5064
Elfrieda Clark
Office Associate
(205) 934-4250
University Hall 5065
Spectacle
(Panhandler Books, 2022)
By Lauren Slaughter
Lures
(LSU Press, 2022)
by Adam Vines
Female Physicians in American Literature
(Routledge, 2022)
By Margaret Jay Jessee
This Ditch-Walking Love
(Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama, 2021)
By James Braziel
Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries
(The University of Chicago Press, 2020)
by Alison Chapman
Ernestine’s Milky Way
(Penguin Random House, 2019)
By Kerry Madden-Lunsford and Emily Sutton
Out of Speech
(LSU Press, 2018)
By Adam Vines
Rhetoric and the Global Turn in Higher Education (Rhetoric, Politics and Society)
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
By Christopher Minnix
Day Kink
(Unicorn Press, 2018)
By Tristan Allen Jih and Adam Vines
Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition
(University Press of Colorado, 2017)
By Bruce McComiskey
The Legal Epic: Paradise Lost and the Early Modern Law
(University of Chicago Press, 2017)
By Alison Chapman
Microhistories of Composition
(Utah State University Press, 2016)
By Bruce McComiskey, ed.
Partners in Literacy: A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
By Jaclyn M. Wells and Allen Brizee
a lesson in smallness
(The National Poetry Review Press, 2015)
By Lauren Slaughter
Alison Chapman
Department Chair
(p) (205) 934-4250
(f) (205) 975-8125
Location
The Department of English is located in University Hall, room 5065. Directions to University Hall are available through the UAB campus map.University Hall
Room 5065
1720 2nd Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-1260
Welcome to UAB’s Department of English!
The ability to use language is at the heart of the human experience. Here in the English Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, we all share a common delight in the richness and complexity of our language and a commitment to sharing that delight with others.
Our nationally and internationally known faculty work in a variety of disciplines. They write poems, novels, and children’s books. They study linguistic structures and language families. They research the works of great authors like William Shakespeare, Edith Wharton, and James Baldwin. They work at the intersection of writing and medicine or explore how people use websites.
Cutting across this remarkable variety of interests is a deep interest in our students and a commitment to their intellectual advancement. Every day, we push our undergraduate and graduate students to read carefully, to develop increasingly complex ways of understanding, and to express themselves with clarity and precision. It is our belief that when our students can do these things, they can do almost anything!
Have a Question?
I am honored to be the Chair of a department so dedicated to excellence, and I encourage you to explore our website and to consider joining our departmental community, whether as a student, supporter, or friend.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have a comment, question, or suggestion. I am eager to hear from those both inside and outside our UAB English family.
Sincerely,
Matthew H. Pangborn
Professor and Chair, UAB Department of English