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Alan N. Brown, D. A.

	Professor of English
	Department of Languages and Literature College of Liberal Arts
	Station # 22
	Wallace Hall 301A and 307A
	(205) 652-3521
	ab@uwa.edu
Degrees:	DA, Illinois State University, 1985 MEd, University of Illinois, 1980 MA, Southern Illinois University, 1974 BA, Millikin University, 1972
Initial employment at UWA:	August 1986
Professional bio:	After receiving my B.A. in English from Millikin University in 1972 and my M.A. in American Literature from Southern Illinois University in 1974, I taught English and German at Flora High School in Flora, Illinois, from 1974 to 1976. Between 1976 and 1986, I taught English at Griffin High School in Springfield, Illinois. I have been teaching English at the University of West Alabama since 1986. Since 1990, I have also been a member of the Alabama Humanities Foundation’s Speakers Bureau.
Classes usually taught:	EH 099 EH 101 EH 102 EH 211 EH 212 EH 340 EH 480 EH 498 EH 580 EH 598
Additional UWA assignments:	Director of the Writing Center and the Compensatory Writing Program
Committees:	Chairperson, Freshman Studies Committee Chair, Department of Languages and Literature’s Library Committee
Academic/Research Interests:	Southern Folklore, especially oral ghost narratives American Literature
Current projects:	An Alabama folklore web page A video of Alabama ghost stories
Recent publications:	Literary Levees of New Orleans. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1998. “Using Transcription in the Teaching of Basic Writing.” ALADE Newsletter Fall 1999: 6-7. “Seeing Is Believing: Ghostly Images from Alabama.” Ghosts of the Prairie Magazine Fall 1999: 5-9.
Recent presentations:	I led a discussion group on Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain at the 19^th annual meeting of the Contemporary Literature and Writing Conference at Kennesaw State University on February 11, 1999. I read a paper entitled “Alabama’s Outlaws” at the annual meeting of the Alabama Historical Society at Montgomery on April 23, 1999. I read a paper entitled “The Literary Works of Ruby Pickens Tartt” at the Alabama Writer’s Symposium on May 8, 1999. I read a paper entitled “Utilizing Holistic Grading at the Secondary Level” at the NCTE Conference “Teaching Writing” in Orlando, Florida, on June 26, 1999. I read a paper entitled “Dracula Transfigured: The Redefinition of the Literary Vampire in Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire” at the Alabama Writer’s Symposium on may 8, 1999. I read a paper entitled “Women without Men: Maintaining the Social Contract in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain” at the international Conference on Utopia and Dystopia” at Atlanta, Georgia, on November 7, 1999. I read a paper entitle ”Using e-mail to Teach Basic Writing” at the annual meeting fo the Alabama Association for Developmental Education in Mobile, Alabama, on November 11, 1999.
Recent grants:	In 1999, I was awarded $2,500 by the Alabama State Council of the Arts and $500 by the UWA Research Committee to support the production of a folklore web site.
Other recent notable works:	I am nearing completion of a video of Alabama ghost tales entitled “Haunts from the Heart of Dixie.”
Additional information:	During the 1999/2000 season, I will be presenting lectures on the topics “Ghosts, Graveyards, and Sitting’ with the Dead: Alabama Deathlore” and “Mysteries and Legends of Albama” for the Alabama Humanities Foundation’s Speakers Bureau. My book Shadows and Cypress: Ghostlore from the American South will be published by the University Press of Mississippi in October 2000.
www sites	http://facstaff.uwa.edu/ab/ghostlore.htm