The University of Alabama Honors College and University Honors Program has announced that Dr. Hubbs has been selected as an Honors Transdisciplinary Course Design Fellow. Read more about the fellowship here: Inaugural Honors Transdisciplinary Course Design Fellows Named – honors.ua.edu | The University of Alabama honors.ua.edu
Read More from Dr. Jolene Hubbs awarded an Honors Transdisciplinary Course Design Fellowship.
This fellowship allows Temple University Press to make available Dr. Tang’s book From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War (2019) as open access to the public. Dr. Tang’s work qualified for the award since he had previously received an NEH summer grant for the initial research on the project.
Professor Stacy Morgan will be in conversation with artist Shaun Leonardo in a live streamed Zoom event on Wednesday, November 8 at 6pm CST. The conversation is being held in conjunction with the Smithsonian’s exhibit Men of Change, currently on view at the Birmingham Public Library and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute through December 2. The conversation will be video-streamed on the library’s theatre-sized screen in the atrium on the first floor. Audience members will have the chance to participate in […]
Read More from Professor Stacy Morgan in conversation with Artist Shaun Leonardo
Dr. Mairin Odle has received the 2023 Collaborative Arts and Museums Program grant from the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) and UA Museums. With her Co-PIs Dr. Clay Nelson, Director of Moundville Archaeological Park, and Mr. Brent Greenwood, Director of Fine Arts and Arts Academy for the Chickasaw Nation, Dr. Odle will organize an exhibit of works by contemporary Native artists, to open at Moundville’s Jones Archaeological Museum in Spring 2025, celebrating Indigenous artistic traditions.
Dr. Eric Weibard has a new book on Elvis Presley’s hit song “Hound Dog.” In this work, Dr. Weisbard explores the broader cultural, commercial, and racial consequences when, in 1956, Elvis Presley appropriated Big Mama Thorton’s earlier R&B rendition of the song. https://www.dukeupress.edu/hound-dog
Read More from Dr. Weisbard’s book just out from Duke University Press
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Read More from Dr. Innis-Jimenez discusses the history and strategies behind the UAW strike
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College (New York) curates a wealth of material related to the life and work of Mark Twain, providing academic resources meeting the needs of a range of readers. In this article, published August 25, 2023, Professor Melton discusses Twain’s first travel book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). The Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain’s Seminal Narrative
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Congratulations to Dr. Innis-Jimenez for winning the UA Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) fellowship for 2023-25. https://cari.ua.edu/news/cari-announces-2023-2025-faculty-fellows/
Dr. Hubbs’s book Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature is the topic of conversation on the latest (June 15, 2023) episode of the popular History of Literature podcast. You can listen to the episode here: https://www.historyofliterature.com/522-class-whiteness-and-southern-literature-with-jolene-hubbs-my-last-book-with-mark-cirino/
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In late April, Professor Morgan participated in a panel presentation with Selma Civil Rights Movement veterans Joyce O’Neal and Dianne Harris at the Birmingham Public Library. The panel was held in conjunction with the BPL’s exhibit of photographs by James “Spider” Martin, which chronicled the events surrounding the Selma to Montgomery March campaign—including “Bloody Sunday” and the eventual successful completion of the march. The exhibit and panel were sponsored by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Alliance and organized by […]