Lectures and Speakers
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Robin Behn and Heidi Lynn Staples Poetry Reading
Gorgas Library Room 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesRobin Behn teaches in the Program in Creative Writing at The University of Alabama. 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…
Meg Day Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesMeg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate…
Akhil Sharma Fiction Reading
Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesAkhil Sharma is the award winning author of the novels Family Life and An Obedient Father. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories.
An Evening with Ada Limon
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesAda Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the…
Strode Lecture in the Age of Shakespeare
Morgan Hall Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesKristina Bross, Purdue University, lecture and workshop on Wednesday, November 14
Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth Age: 2019 English Department Symposium
Hotel Capstone , United StatesThe symposium is a biennial event sponsored by the Department of English that organizes talks by leading scholars on a topic proposed by the faculty. This year’s theme on digital rhetoric and civic discourse brings together interdisciplinary scholars and activists for a two day event to discuss the implications of digital media for rhetoric, civic…
Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth Age: 2019 English Department Symposium
Hotel Capstone , United StatesThe symposium is a biennial event sponsored by the Department of English that organizes talks by leading scholars on a topic proposed by the faculty. This year’s theme on digital rhetoric and civic discourse brings together interdisciplinary scholars and activists for a two day event to discuss the implications of digital media for rhetoric, civic…
Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series
Please join us for our first Pure Products reading of the semester featuring UA faculty members Yolanda Manora and Jessica Kidd, MFA Candidate Jeremy Burke, and undergraduate Creative Writing student Aundralesha Wordlow.
Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series
Please join us for our second Pure Products reading of the semester featuring poet and new UA faculty member Matt Minicucci, MFA Candidate August Kelly, and undergraduate Creative Writing student Zoe Berndt. Event will take place via Zoom.
An Evening with Jesmyn Ward
Ferguson Student Center Theater 751 Campus Dr W, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesWe regret to announce that Jesmyn Ward has had to postpone her visit. To work with her schedule, the English Department and Honors College hope to host her in the Spring. We’ll post more information about a future event when we can.