Displaying items by tag: Department of English
September 14, 2015
UAB English Major Wins Best Student Film at Sidewalk 2015
If you’re not making discoveries, something is wrong, says UAB English major Kelsey Harrison, winner of the 17th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival's “Best Student Film” for her work “Coming and Going.”
July 15, 2015
Comic Genius
UAB English alum Jason Aaron now stands as one of the leading lights of the Marvel Universe—a comics writer whose storylines for heroes such as the X-Men and Thor have generated critical acclaim and buzz.
July 13, 2015
Kerry Madden’s Book "Up Close: Harper Lee" Re-released to Coincide with "Go Set a Watchman"
UAB professor Kerry Madden-Lunsford's biography of To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has been re-released to coincide with the publication of Lee's novel Go Set a Watchman.
The 2015 Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop, a 3-week workshop that offers a rare opportunity for high school students to learn from published authors, will take place June 1-19. Deadline Extension: The Department has extended the deadline past the original date of May 1. If you missed the original deadline but are interested in participating, apply soon.
April 22, 2015
Dr. Alison Chapman Named Chair of the Department of English
Dr. Alison Chapman has accepted the position as Chair of the UAB College of Arts and Sciences Department of English.
April 22, 2015
Alumni Interview: Quinn Lewis
Quinn Lewis graduated the UAB Department of English Creative Writing Program in 2010 and is now working on her MFA in Poetry at the University of Oregon. She recently talked about her experiences with graduate student Halley Cotton.
April 15, 2015
Q&A with Randy Blythe
Randy Blythe is an assistant professor in the UAB Department of English. Recently he sat down with graduate student Halley Cotton to answer a few questions.
January 08, 2015
Watch Memoir Short Films Created by Students
Over the Fall 2014 semester, students wrote memoirs and then filmed their stories for the interdisciplinary class “Memoir in Writing and Film,” taught by Kerry Madden of English and Michele Forman of the History Department.
December 03, 2014
Read the New Issue of Memorandum
Want to hear about the latest from the Professional Writing Program? The new issue of Memorandum, written and designed by students in the program, is available now.
November 05, 2014
Going Global
Nowadays, it seems like everybody’s going global. Here in the College of Arts and Sciences, we’re doing our part to cross the continents, too, with faculty and students making their mark in more places than we can mention in a single article.
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September 04, 2014
English Faculty-led Book Discussion Group Returns for 2014-15
Each month, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of English hosts BookTalk. The informal discussions, led by department faculty, are open to the public and will meet from 6-7 p.m. in the Director’s Conference Room 182 in Mervyn Sterne Library, 917 13th Street South.
August 06, 2014
Come to the 2014-2015 UAB Writers Series
The UAB Writers' Series is an annual offering of the Creative Writing program. Nationally recognized authors are invited to UAB to give readings and participate in Q-and-A sessions. Readings are free and open to the public.
Over the course of 26 years, beginning in 1986, William Doggett III, M.D., took 70 undergraduate and graduate-level classes at UAB.
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The city of Birmingham is an open book for students in one UAB English course. It serves as both subject and setting for their work, which hones their skills for writing about place for different public and academic audiences. And they quickly find that Birmingham’s story has plenty of blank pages for them to fill.
Alison Chapman read the email twice before it sank in that she had received the National Academic Advising Association’s award for outstanding faculty advising.
June 26, 2014
Solving "Wicked" Problems
Five college faculty members have been chosen as Edge of Chaos Scholars along with 21 other UAB faculty and staff members. In their new role, they will be making presentations throughout the coming academic year on the problems our society has struggled to solve.
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June 19, 2014
A Conversation with Kerry Madden-Lunsford
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, an associate professor in the Department's Creative Writing Program, recently talked to graduate assistant Halley Cotton about her time teaching at UAB, her projects, her role models, and her advice for aspiring writers.
June 18, 2014
The Write Stuff
More than two dozen area high school students recently participated in The Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop, hosted by the Department of English.
June 06, 2014
The Books of Summer
The firecracker-hot days of an Alabama summer provide the perfect encouragement to get lost in the cool, crisp pages of a good book. But with infinite shelves of reading material available, where do you begin? We asked faculty members in UAB’s Department of English for inspiration, and they shared a few of the titles that sparked their passion for literature.
Could text language and autocorrect technologies have an effect on writing skills? UAB experts offer thoughts and tips.
