The Department of English recently received an update to the Morgan Hall foyer, including new flooring and freshly painted walls. Paul Wuebold, Senior Executive Director of Facilities & Grounds Operations, designed and headed the enterprise. “Morgan Hall is one of UA’s more historical buildings,” Wuebold observed, noting that, previously, “the entryway lacked the ‘wow’ factor […]
Category: The Scarlet Newsletter
Pure Products: A Reading Series for the Community
Pure Products is a reading series that had been run by faculty member, Eric Parker, in 2017. Dr. Sara Hughes took over the project, in 2018 (see her update at the end of this article). In this interview, Dr. Shanti Weiland and Eric Parker discuss the origins of Pure Products and his plans for its […]
Student Writer’s Guild (SWG) and English Majors and Minors Association (EMMA) Make English Students Feel At Home
It’s two weeks before Halloween, and Camryn Walker sits with a cadre of undergraduates on Morgan 301’s couches to watch The Babadook, an Australian horror film about a monster that uses a book as a portal into our world. The movie is a fitting choice for this crowd, a collection of scribblers known as the […]
Dr. Heather White Discusses Marianne Moore
When was your first experience with Moore’s poetry? I first read Moore as an undergraduate. I found her baffling. I read her again as a graduate student and was hooked by her descriptive precision, her baroque syntax, her ear for found language, and her wit. Have you been able to visit and explore the places […]
Spring 2018: Masthead
The Scarlet Newsletter is a production of the Department of English at The University of Alabama. “Pure Products: A Reading Series for the Community” By Dr. Shanti Weiland “Student Writer’s Guild (SWG) and English Majors and Minors (EMMA) Make English Students Feel At Home” By Dr. Wells Addington “Alumna Profile: Candace Chambers” by Van Newell, MFA […]
Alumna Profile: Candace Chambers
Candace Chambers is a scholar of English. She serves as CEO of Educational Writing Services LLC, and the author of Write Your Way to a Successful Scholarship Essay. Candace is currently working as a Public Affairs writer/editor with the United States Department of Agriculture. She has also served as an Assistant Director of the writing center at the […]
Faculty Profile: Dr. Dorothy Worden
Dorothy Worden joined the faculty at The University of Alabama in 2016. Her research and teaching interests include second language writing teacher cognition, genre-based approaches to academic writing instruction, sociocultural theory, and the analysis of classroom interaction. Prior to coming to Alabama, Dorothy received her MA in Composition and Rhetoric from Washington State University in […]
A Conversation About John Keats with Dr. William Ulmer
Not long after the publication of his third book, John Keats: Reimagining History, in 2017, Professor William A. Ulmer sat down with Dr. Sara Pirkle Hughes and discussed his writing process for the book, why he fanboys over John Keats, and his secret desire to one day write a spy novel. Why don’t we start […]
Fall 2017: Masthead
The Scarlet Newsletter is a production of the Department of English at The University of Alabama. “Margaret Atwood Comes to Tuscaloosa” by Kalen Breland, English Major “An Interview with Professor Trudier Harris” by Dr. Chris Koester “Dr. Delia Steverson: UA Alumna and SREB Fellowship Recipient” by Dr. Sarah Cantrell “Professor Phil Beidler’s Beautiful War: Studies in a […]
Letter from Chair
Department of English The University of Alabama Fall 2017 Letter from Department Chair Joel Brouwer To the English Department Community, Greetings from Morgan Hall! I welcome this opportunity to share with you the current situation of the Department and our accomplishments over the past year. In 2016-2017 the English Department had 42 tenure-track faculty, 2 […]