Your collection Nola Face includes several bilingual essays. Can you talk about the Spanish influence both in your life and work? My bilingualism is in some ways the subject […]
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Robert Poole’s Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics
Robert Poole received his PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 2015 and his MA in TESOL from the University of Alabama in 2011. […]
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Professor Heather White Wins the Current-Garcia Award
Perhaps it is not surprising that a literature professor would write a book in praise of the habit of reading—yet Dr. Heather White’s Books Promiscuously Read (Farrar Straus & Giroux, […]
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Setting the Scene: Sara Pirkle and the University of Alabama Visiting Writers Series
Margaret Atwood. Neil Gaiman. Alice Walker. The University of Alabama Visiting Writers Series has brought notable voices to campus and fostered creative relationships with students and faculty alike since its […]
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Emily O. Wittman’s The New Midlife Self-Writing and Ongoing Optimism
The end of spring semester always brings with it a fleeting sense of conclusion. Another set of grades and the rush of students up and out of Tuscaloosa. Graduating seniors […]
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Flexible, Free, and Flipped: COVE in the Classroom
When Albert Pionke and Dan Novak first used COVE (Collective Organization for Virtual Education) for their courses, each immediately saw the vast possibilities, both pedagogical and scholarly, the system offered. For Novak, […]
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Preparing for a Pandemic: Safety in Flexible Approaches
It was one of my students who notified me halfway through my last course of the day. It was March 12th, 2020, and the course was World Literature. Students and […]
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Brian Phillip Whalen’s Semiotic Love [Stories]
UA English Instructor Brian Whalen’s collection Semiotic Love [Stories] was published in 2020 by Awst Press and was chosen as one of the Best Indie Books of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews. […]
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Lauren Cardon’s Fashioning Character: Reading Between the Seams
By Pete Beatty Tuscaloosa briefly became a global fashion center in the summer of 2021 – at least on TikTok. Viral videos of aspiring sorority members grabbed millions of views […]
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Brian Oliu Drops An Elbow Into The Heart of the Lyric Essay
Originally from New Jersey, Brian Oliu received his MFA from UA. He has gone on to author three chapbooks, several works of nonfiction, and is currently Assistant Director of the […]
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