The most direct route between the William E. Donaldson Prison Facility and Tuscaloosa, Alabama winds through the bucolic hills of the Cumberland Plateau, along the Black Warrior River. It’s a road that Brett Shaw came to know well while serving as a University of Alabama Prison Arts Fellow. In 2017, Shaw led a class on rationality for thirteen students at the facility. Founded in 2001 by the poet Kyes Stevens and based out of Auburn University, The Alabama Prison Arts […]

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Deborah Weiss has taught in the English Department since 2008. She received her BA summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University of Chicago. A specialist in the long eighteenth century, Professor Weiss is particularly interested in the engagements of women novelists with the ideas of the Enlightenment. In addition to her book on Mary Wollstonecraft, she has published on the works of Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, and other women writers of the […]

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Albert Pionke joined the faculty in 2005 as an assistant professor. He was awarded tenure and the rank of associate professor in 2009, and was promoted to professor in 2014. In fall 2016, he began a three-year appointment as a College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Faculty Fellow. He recently edited a book about Scottish philosopher and writer Thomas Carlyle entitled Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence. Does our 2018 understanding of “influence” as a term differ from Carlyle’s […]

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UA English’s newest addition to the CRES Program is Alexis McGee. Dr. McGee received her PhD from The University of Texas at San Antonio in May of 2018 and joined UA in the fall. She recently sat down with Amanda Snyder to discuss her research interests and pedagogy. What led you to study English and eventually to The University of Alabama? By the time I was eight or nine years old, I learned how to work our turntable and play […]

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Natalie Loper earned her BA in English from Quincy University and her MA and PhD in English from the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at The University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests include Shakespeare and film, teen films, adaptation and appropriation theory, and pedagogy. Her duties as Assistant Director of the First-year Writing Program include creating and coordinating the 100-level online courses and training graduate student teachers and online instructors. Who were your collaborators on this book? […]

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You have, perhaps, felt it: the whirl and reel of finding yourself halfway through the looking glass, the startle of pulling yourself back from disinformation’s gravitational pull. The March 1-2 symposium, Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth Age, addresses this cultural phenomenon. Professors Amber Buck and Cindy Tekobbe have organized the symposium, anticipating the subject’s ability to bring together scholars from around the country, enrich pedagogical practices, and connect with other disciplines. The timely symposium will attract experts, including keynote speaker Alice Marwick, Assistant Professor in […]

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Associate Professor Steve Tedeschi joined the English department at The University of Alabama in 2011. His recent book, Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. What inspired you to write Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry? I have been fascinated by Romantic poetry since I first encountered it, and the question of its relation to urbanization allowed me to reflect on method, the history of the period, and the transformations of literary genres. I tend to […]

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Sara Pirkle Hughes’s first book, The Disappearing Act, won the 2016 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry and was published in 2018. Her poems have been published in Rattle, Reed, Entropy, TAB, The Raintown Review, Emrys, and Atticus Review, among others. Sara has received writing fellowships from The Anderson Center, I-Park Foundation, and The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. She is the Assistant Director of Creative Writing at The University of Alabama, where she also hosts the Pure Products […]

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