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Professor of
English
Station 22
Wallace Hall
301A and 307A
(205) 652-3521
abrown@uwa.edu |
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Degrees: |
DA, Illinois
State
University, 1985
MEd, University
of Illinois,
1980
MA, Southern
Illinois
University, 1974
BA, Millikin
University, 1972 |
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Employment Date: |
August 1986 |
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Professional
Biography: |
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.
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Classes usually
taught: |
EH 99, EH
101, EH 102, EH
211, EH 212, EH
340, EH 480, EH
498, EH 580, EH
598 |
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Additional UWA
Assignments: |
Director of
the Writing
Center and the
Compensatory
Writing Program
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Academic /
Research
Interests: |
Southern
Folklore,
especially oral
ghost narratives
American
Literature
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Current
Projects: |
An Alabama
folklore web
page
A video of
Alabama ghost
stories
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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.
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Recent
Presentations: |
- I led a discussion group on Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain at the 19th 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 of the Alabama Association for Developmental Education in Mobile, Alabama, on November 11, 1999.
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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.
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Other recent
notable works: |
I am nearing
completion of a
video of Alabama
ghost tales
entitled “Haunts
from the Heart
of Dixie.”
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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 Alabama” 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.
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WWW Sites: |
http://facstaff.uwa.edu/abrown/ghostlore.htm
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