Patricia
V. Beatty
Professor
Wallace Hall 307M/652-3641 pbeatty@uwa.edu
Education:
AB, Newcomb College of Tulane University (with distinction); MA and Ph.D,
University of Alabama
Courses
Taught: English Composition, Advanced Composition; English
Literature Survey, Nineteenth-centuryEnglish Poetry, Twentieth-century Poetry, Twentieth-century British
Literature, Twentieth-century American Women Novelists, Research
Methods, and Critical Theory
Publications:
“Crews’s
Women,” in A Grit’s Triumph: Essays on the Works of Harry Crews
“John
Fowles’s Clegg:Captive
Landlord of Eden,” in Ariel
“John
Fowles’s Daniel Martin:Poetics
of the Now,” in South Atlantic Quarterly
“Body
Language in Harry Crews’s The Gypsy’s Curse,” in Critique:
Studies in Modern Fiction
“The
Undercliff as Inverted Pastoral: The Fowlesian Felix Culpa in The
FrenchLieutenant’s Woman,”
in John Fowles and Nature
Papers
on Fowles, Crews, Didion, and Pynchonpresented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association,
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, the Tennessee Philological
Society, the Popular Culture Association and Lyme Regis, England
Honors:
Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Scholar/Artist Award; Coordinator and Guide
for three tours of England, sponsored by the Department of Languages and
Literature
Other Positions on Campus: Chair, Department of
Languages and Literature
Hobbies
and Interests: Dogs (and a cat with an attitude),
reading, and traveling
Alan
Brown Professor
Wallace Hall 307A/652-3521
ab@uwa.edu
Education: B. A., Millikin
University; M. A.,
Southern Illinois University; M. A., Sangamon State University; D. A.,
Illinois State University
Courses Taught: Compensatory English, English
Composition, Introduction to Literature, African-American Literature,
Folklore, and Teaching Composition.
Publications:
Dim Roads and Dark Nights
The Momma ‘n ‘em Stories
The Face in the
window and Other Alabama Ghostlore
Literary Levees of
Alabama
Shadows and Cypress: Ghost Stories from the
American South
Produced cassette/CD of Rich Amerson’s collection of folk
songs.
Honors, Awards, and Other Positions on Campus:
Bell/McIlwain Trustee Professorship, Director of the Writing Center, and Speaker for the Alabama Humanities Foundation’s
Speakers’ Bureau
Hobbies and Interests: folklore, oral ghost tales, movies, jogging,
swimming, gardening, the Civil War
Gerald Jones
Associate Professor
Wallace Hall 307D/652-3631
gjones@uwa.edu
Education: B. A., University of Washington,;
M. A. and Ph. D., Bowling Green State University
Courses Taught: English Composition, Introduction to
Literature, Introduction to Research, Technical Writing, Popular Culture,
Literary Criticism, and Advanced Grammar and Linguistics.
Presentations:
"Point of View in Classic Hollywood Films:
A Reconsideration," Southeastern Popular Culture Convention
Association.
"Women in 50's Science Fiction Films"
Hobbies and Interests: Film, Science Fiction, Jazz, Cooking, Popular
Culture & Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory
Tina
Naremore Jones
Assistant Professor
Wallace Hall 108A/652-3752
tnj@uwa.edu
Education: B. A. Livingston
University; M. A. T.,
Livingston University; Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi
Courses Taught: English Composition, American
Literature, Women's Literature, African American Literature, Introduction
to Mass Communications, Writing for the Mass Media, Desktop Publishing,
and Speech
Publications:
Editor, Historical Points of Interests Brochure
Series, Sumter County Historical Society.
Co-editor, Belles' Letters: Contemporary
Stories of Alabama Women
Presentations:
"Confidence Works Both Ways"
"The Dressing of Samuel Richardson's Pamela"
"Ruby Pickens Tartt: Alabama
Folklorist"
"Ruby Pickens Tartt: The Evolution of an
Artist"
Other Positions on Campus: Advisor, The
Life,
Co-Director, Livingston Press, and Speaker, UWA Speakers Bureau.
Hobbies and Interests: Slave Narratives, Ruby Pickens-Tartt,
African-American Literature, Dogs, and Water-Skiing
Stephen Slimp
Associate Professor Wallace Hall 111A/652-3707
sslimp@uwa.edu
Education: B. A., University of South
Carolina; M. A., Baylor University; Ph. D., University of North Carolina
Publications:
"A Poet’s Apprenticeship: Samuel
Johnson’s School Translations." The Age of Johnson
"Deification in The Merchant of
Venice." forthcoming in New Essays on The Merchant of
Venice. Ed. John Mahon, Garland Press. (with John Cunningham)
Courses Taught: English Composition,
Honors Composition, Honors Literature, Introduction to Research,
Seventeenth-Century Literature, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
Literature, Honors Special Topics
Honors, Awards, and Other
Positions on Campus: Director of the Honors Program, Co-Advisor
Sigma Tau Delta (English Honorary Fraternity), William E. Gilbert Award for
Outstanding Teaching, and 1998-99, University of West Alabama
Hobbies
and Interests: Classical languages and
literature, world literature, Renaissance and 18th. Century
English literature, and poetics
Joe Taylor
Professor
Office: 110 Wallace/652-3470 jwt@uwa.edu
Education: B.A. University of Kentucky, 1974; M.A. Florida State
University, 1981; Ph.D. Florida State University, 1985
Courses taught:English Literature,
Introduction to Literature,
Chaucer , Medical Ethics (Ethics), The Comic Novel, The Hero(ine) in
Romantic novels, Creative Writing, and Desktop Publishing
Publications:
Books:
The Once and Future
Bunion (forthcoming) New
South Press
Belles’ Letters,
co-editor with Tina Jones ; Livingston Press
Oldcat & Ms Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me;
Black Belt Press
Stories:
(forthcoming)
“Fame” in Vergil Suarez’s Sudden Shorts Anthology
(Forthcoming)“Mademoiselle Preg. Nante” Red Hen Press Anthology
“Moon Trees: A Gentle
Ontology” Appalachee Quarterly
"The Great
Humus" Hayden's Ferry Review
"Saturdays" The
Best of The Chattahoochee Review
"The Woman Who
Wouldn't Talk, The Man Who Wouldn't Listen" The Southern Anthology
