Hey Graduate Students: Tell Us When You Publish!
If you’re a graduate student and have published work recently, please let the Director of Graduate Studies or Director of Creative Writing know! The department will announce the good news to everyone at the end of each semester.
Class Cancellations
Teachers, please report class cancellations.
Room Reservations
To reserve a room in English Building for a public or internal meeting or event, email englishoffice@ua.edu specifying the room you want to reserve, date, time, and purpose. You will receive an email confirmation when your room reservation is completed. Do not advertise your event or submit it for publication on the department’s public and/or internal calendar until you receive confirmation of your room reservation.
Calendars
View our public events calendar. Add a public event to the departmental calendar by selecting “Department of English” category at this link. You will receive an email confirmation when your event has been added to the calendar. If you need to reserve a room in English Building for your public event, please do that first (see instructions above), and await confirmation of your room reservation before submitting your event to the public events calendar.
View our internal administrative calendar. To add any internal department meeting or event to our administrative calendar, email englishoffice@ua.edu specifying location, date, time, and purpose. You will receive an email confirmation when your event has been added to the calendar.
Digital Signs
Please advertise your public events on the digital signs in English Building, Ten Hoor, and other A&S buildings. It is free to do, and reaches a large audience. Simply fill out a digital sign event ad request.
Accessing the Department’s Shared Network Drive
The Department maintains records and resources for graduate students, faculty, and staff on a shared network drive. These instructions explain how to access the share drive off campus via VPN. To access the share drive on campus from your office computer, contact the IT Service Desk at itsd@ua.edu.
Website Login and Editing Help
Editing access to english.ua.edu is offered at two levels for faculty, staff, and graduate students: (1) access to their personal directory profile or (2) access to other pages and sections of the site, plus their own directory profile. Following are instructions for each level:
Editing Your Personal Directory Profile
To edit your personal directory profile, email webmaster@as.ua.edu to request a user account on the department website. Once you have an account, follow the instructions in Editing Directory Profiles.
Note: If you will be editing only your directory profile, you aren’t required to complete the College’s web accessibility course.
Editing Other Pages and Sections of the Site
If you are a faculty member, staff member or graduate student needing editing access to any area of the site other than your profile, email your department chair. If the chair approves your request, forward the request and approval via email to webmaster@as.ua.edu. Next, visit the eTech website’s user training page for instructions for completing the College’s web accessibility course and getting trained in WordPress.
Department administrators have site editing privileges for their areas and may find this information helpful: Switching between the main site and program sites
To edit the site, log in. (You can also reset your password at this link by clicking the link below the login box.)