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UA professor’s book named bestseller

Becky Robinson • May 30, 2012

The American Educational Research Association named “Leaders in the Historical Study of American Education” by Wayne Urban, a University of Alabama professor and associate director of the educational...

Connie Willis novel a new take on time travel

Isabela Morales • April 16, 2012

In the year 2057 — when getting a Ph.D. in history is a high-risk endeavor requiring mental and physical endurance, athleticism, a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and Victorian table manners,...

'Luminous and Ominous' offers thoughtful take on doomsday

‘Luminous and Ominous’ offers thoughtful take on doomsday

Isabela Morales • April 2, 2012

It is kind of fun to think about the world ending. “Survivor” is on its 20-something season (I can’t even count them any more); AMC’s original series “The Walking Dead” wowed audiences again...

‘The Marriage Plot’ offers new perspective on getting hitched

Isabela Morales • February 14, 2012

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.” That’s the motto Madeleine Hanna lives by, anyway, in the 1980s college world of Jeffrey Eugenides’s “The Marriage Plot.”...

Journalism professor writes children's book

Journalism professor writes children’s book

Alex Cohen • February 9, 2012

Inspiration comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s a painting, a sentence or a day’s right feelings. But for Monique Fields, it’s something much more personal. Fields, a professor of journalism at...

Novel adds maturity to young adult genre

Novel adds maturity to young adult genre

Isabela Morales • January 12, 2012

There’s nothing like child gladiators to up those network television ratings, am I right? That’s how it works in Panem, anyway – the totalitarian, post-nuclear holocaust North American government...

Pi Beta Phi promotes literacy at Holt Elementary

Adrienne Burch • November 30, 2011

Alabama’s chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority has partnered with Holt Elementary School to implement the six-week Champions are Readers (CAR) program, designed to help students enhance their reading levels....

‘Ender’s Game’ a classic

Isabela Morales • November 29, 2011

Book lovers would be hard-pressed to find anything more perennially popular with science fiction/fantasy authors than dystopian governments doing horrible things to young children. Most recently, that...

Book explores limits of mind

Isabela Morales • November 15, 2011

Put away your half-started manuscripts and tragic hopes, creative writing minors. In an economy like ours, your chances of publication are bleak - unless, that is, you have unlimited access to a mind-enhancing...

The Gormenghast Series

The Gormenghast Series

Isabela Morales • October 31, 2011

Four years in Tuscaloosa, and I'm beginning to despair that I am the only person on campus who has read Mervyn Peake's “Gormenghast” series. I told myself last spring that if I got that Lifestyles...

Stockett's 'The Help' creates tension after successful book and movie release

Stockett’s ‘The Help’ creates tension after successful book and movie release

Ashley Chaffin • September 14, 2011

Of the 29 consecutive weeks UA graduate Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” has been on the New York Times Bestseller list, it has dropped out of the top 10 only seven times; 11 of those weeks, including...

Book arts instructor wins award

Brittney Knox • September 6, 2011

  This past July, The Minnesota Center for Book Arts announced Sarah Bryant, UA book arts instructor and alumna, as the recipient of the MCA Prize for her book titled “Biography.” This prize is the...

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