Dr. Ali Fuad Selvi joined the Department of English as Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics in 2022. What is your academic background? I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University (METU) (Ankara, Turkey). During this time, I started my teaching career as an Instructor of Academic English at Atılım University’s (Ankara, Turkey) Intensive English Program. Then, I joined the doctoral program in Second Language Education and Culture at the University […]
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Michelle Dowd’s Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women’s Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies
Michelle Dowd requires little introduction. She joined the English Department in 2016 as Director of the Hudson Strode Program, and while an established scholar in Renaissance and early modern studies, her renown is not just specific to her field. Her work unifies scholarship and pedagogy in a way that is beneficial to both students and colleagues. Her newest book, Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women’s Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies, co-edited with Lara Dodds, is exemplary of how her work both […]
Dewpoint Magazine: Sigma Tau Delta’s Literary Journal
Dewpoint Magazine is a literary magazine designed to showcase the best original poetry, prose, and critical works by students and faculty at The University of Alabama. During the 2022 academic year, the Phi Xi chapter of Sigma Tau Delta decided to take our award-winning publication to the online realm. While Dewpoint has been produced in the past, the current Sigma Tau Delta executive council is dedicated to getting the works of students and faculty showcased. A lot of opportunities to submit pieces for […]
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Grey LaJoie, Recent MFA Graduate, Wins Outstanding Teaching Award
Grey LaJoie, recent MFA graduate and Prison Arts and Education Fellow, won Outstanding Teaching by a Master’s Student in Spring 2022. LaJoie attributes their success in teaching to their influential instructor in community college: “Yesho Atil provided a model for me and saw what I was capable of becoming, and invited me to step into it, to try it on. She ‘loved me into being,’ as Mister Rogers would say.” LaJoie’s mission as a teacher is to allow students to […]
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Spring 2023 Fall 2023
EN 500 – 001 W – 2:00 – 4:30 Purvis X-Listed with WS 530 Rev. 09/01/2022 Special Topics: Women in Contemporary Society: Feminist Theory Open to graduate students from all disciplines with an interest in feminist theory, this interdisciplinary approach to feminist theory focuses on abjection and the affective turn in critical theory—in particular, the promising effects of interrogating the workings of disgust and shame. Given the gendered dimensions of affect, as well as the associations of disgust and shame […]
Real-World Writing: First-Year Writing Takes on ePortfolios
For the past two years, the First-Year Writing Program in the Department of English has implemented the ePortfolio program, which encourages students to create electronic portfolios, usually websites, to showcase their First-Year Writing essays. With the idea in mind that employers seek experience with online writing and web design, the FWP’s Dr. Natalie Loper and Professor Jessica Kidd have led the development of a First-Year writing curriculum that guides students through writing for an audience beyond the classroom, using the […]
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UA Undergraduate, Jordan Taylor, Wins Michael Dalton Goodson Memorial Prize in Poetry
Jordan Taylor is a current senior at the University of Alabama, majoring in psychology and minoring in neuroscience and creative writing. She was a member of the Alabama Student Association for Poetry’s slam competition team that competed at the National Poetry Slam in Chicago during the summer of 2017. This past spring, she received the Department of English’s Michael D. Goodson Memorial Prize in Poetry and Slam Poetry. Her poetry explores the “gray areas of love,” loss, and her childhood […]
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Kwoya Fagin Maples’ Mend Gives Life to Women
Modern gynecology and obstetrics blossomed under deeply rooted racism. UA alumna Kwoya Fagin Maples captivates her readers with her new book of poetry, Mend, as she explores Black women’s unacknowledged and forgotten wounds and their links to the present. She brings to life the enslaved women whose bodies were exploited and used as experiments at the hands of Dr. James Marion Sims in his pursuit to successfully repair fistulas and eventually become “the father of modern gynecology.” The histories of […]
Faculty Profile: Dr. Robert Poole
Robert Poole joined the faculty at The University of Alabama in Fall 2018, but his arrival marked a homecoming, as he received both his undergraduate degree and his M.A. at Alabama. It was his journeys far from Alabama, though, that led him into applied linguistics and TESOL. After earning his undergraduate degree, Poole worked for several years in the Peace Corps in Guyana and later spent time teaching overseas in Nicaragua and South Korea. “In South Korea is where I […]
Welcoming UA’s New Victorianist: A Conversation with Professor Daniel Novak
Associate Professor Daniel Novak recently joined UA’s English department after previously teaching at Tulane University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Mississippi. He received his doctorate from Princeton University in 2002, specializing in Victorian literature. He is the author of Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and co-editor of ‘Masculinity Lessons’: Rethinking Men’s and Women’s Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). His research interests include Victorian and visual cultures. I recently spoke with Dr. Novak about his research […]
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