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  • 16 May 2012: Dr. Karen Gardiner, Writing Program Administrator, has received an Outstanding Professional Award from the University of Alabama Professional Staff Assembly.
  • 12 May 2012: The Tuscaloosa News profiles Prof. Sharon O'Dair's interim course on "YouTube Shakespeare". Read the full story.
  • 8 February 2012: As part of the 10th anniversary of the University of Alabama Cuba Initiative, Profs. Phil Beidler, Nikhil Bilwakesh, and Emily Wittman will present papers on U.S.-Cuban Literary Culture and Translation Studies on a panel entitled "Cultures in Translation" in Havana, Cuba. Dr. Karen Gardiner will participate in a roundtable discussion entitled "Restoration and Collaboration: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Writing Conversations about Historic Restoration in Cuba and Alabama" which will explore the possibility of a First-year Writing Freshman Learning Community interim course that focuses on historical restoration. Read the full story.
  • 30 January 2012: Norman Golar, a UA English graduate of the CRES PhD program (2010) and chair of the English Department at Stillman College, will be one of four Knox College alumni to be honored with an Alumni Achievement Award at a special Founders Day Convocation marking Knox College's 175th anniversary. The ceremony will take place Friday, February 17, 2012 at 5 pm in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College. Read the full story.
  • 7 November 2001: MA student Seth Swanner's thesis entitled "The Convent of Measure: Prosodic Passing and Stable Subjectivity in Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure" has been selected for the Graduate School's Outstanding Thesis Award competition. With this nomination, Seth is one of two recipients of the Outstanding Thesis Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • 7 November 2011:Prof. Dave Madden is featured in the Accolades section of the Dialog newsletter for the launch of his book The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. Read the full story.
  • 5 November 2011: In an interview with The Tuscaloosa News, Prof. Sharon O'Dair and PhD student Nic Helms thoroughly debunk the conspiracy theory questioning Shakespeare's authorship and explain some of the many historical inaccuracies associated with the film Anonymous. Read the full story.
  • 4 November 2011: The New Yorker predicts the outcome of the LSU vs. Alabama football game based on the strength of each university's English department and concludes, "We'll give the nod to Alabama for the English department's motto: "Totally making you read." ... the Alabama English department puts the Tide on top". Read the full story.

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