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Writing Your City: Scott McWaters’ and Abraham Smith’s Book, Tuskaloosa Kills

Scott McWaters holds a BS in Secondary Education Language Arts from The University of Alabama and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Memphis. He has been an Instructor since 2002 and is a three-time finalist for the University’s Last Lecture Award, as well as a recipient of the department’s Outstanding Teaching Award by an Instructor. McWaters has recently co-authored the book of prose vignettes, Tuskaloosa Kills, with former UA faculty member, Abraham Smith. Why did you decide to […]

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Robin Behn: Poetry, Music, and Teaching

Robin Behn, originally from Barrington, Illinois, has served as faculty in the Department of English for the last 30 years. She is the author of five volumes of poems, Quarry Cross, The Yellow House, Horizon Note, The Red Hour, and Paper Bird, and two chapbooks. She is co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach, and editor of a new resource for young writers, Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-first Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative […]

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Morgan Hall Foyer Updated by UA Facilities

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 and honor this great building deserves.” In addition to the more extensive updates to the foyer’s ceiling and floor, Facilities staff members enhanced the foyer’s […]

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Margaret Atwood Comes to Tuscaloosa

On November 14, the Department of English hosted “An Evening with Margaret Atwood,” held in the sold-out Bama Theater. This evening was not Atwood’s first time in Tuscaloosa; in 1985, she lived in a house on Riverside Drive while serving as writer-in-residence for the MFA program. According to English Department legend, it was there that she finished The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel that has remained, for three decades, one of her most enduring works. Margaret Atwood is a worldwide bestselling […]

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