Department of English

英语教师提供的课程有两个目的:教学生用我们的口语和书面语清晰有效地表达和表达他们的想法, 并帮助学生培养对美国作家作品的批判性理解, British, and world literature.

After our foundational courses, the surveys of British and American literature and our "gateway" course, English majors encounter works of literature in five distinct ways:

• Breadth. We offer courses that emphasize a breadth of literary study. Courses such as Satire and 20th Century British and American Poetry 在不同的文学作品中强调主题、一般或风格的统一.
• Depth. 其他课程强调学习的深度，通常侧重于个别作者，如 Shakespeare or Hemingway, 但也有课程集中在一个单一的文学运动的作家集合, such as Romantic Prose and Poetry and Literature of the American Renaissance.
• Difference. 认识到学习文学可以让一个人从不同的角度看世界, we offer courses that emphasize the literature of different times, places, or cultures. These courses range from the prose, poetry, and drama of the Middle Ages to American Indian literature since the 1960s.
• Contemporary. We study contemporary literature because, like T. S. Eliot, 我们相信，正如现在的作品是对过去作品的回应一样, our response to older works is altered by what is being written now. Courses such as Contemporary International Fiction serve this function well.
• Theory. Students in English courses soon learn that it matters not only what we read but how we read. We offer courses such as Performance Theory and Postmodernism 帮助学生更好地了解自己作为读者的习惯，并扩大他们的批判库. 学生们被介绍给历史上塑造了我们的解释模式的思想家, from Aristotle to Stanley Fish.

With our Senior Capstone, 英语专业的学生把他们所学到的都集中在一篇论文中.

Upon completion of the English major, students will be able to

• analyze a literary text for form, structure, and genre,
• form a thesis and support it with a coherent and unified essay structure,
• formulate a sound argument based on textual and contextual evidence,
• apply and integrate scholarly material,
• produce prose with a clear, confident voice.

The English Award for Achievement in Literary Study

这个奖项是为了表彰那些在文学学习上表现出非凡勤奋的英语专业大四学生, achievement, and depth of understanding. 在荣誉日人文学部颁奖典礼上，一本书被颁发给这个奖项的获得者.

The Richebourg G. McWilliams English Award

该奖项以一位1929年至1971年任职于牛津大学英语系的前成员命名, who chaired the department for many of those years, and who held the title of Mary Collett Munger Professor of English. Mr. McWilliams was a scholar as well as an effective teacher, 他对法国人在墨西哥湾沿岸探险的文学和历史特别感兴趣. 该奖项旨在表彰这位英语专业的大四学生，他的文学学习表现出了不同寻常的个人投入, industry, and intellectual growth. 在荣誉日人文学部颁奖典礼上，一本书被颁发给这个奖项的获得者.

Patricia Finley Watkins Writing Scholarship

帕特里夏·芬利·沃特金斯奖学金于1984年在帕特里夏·芬利·沃特金斯夫人的慷慨捐助下成立. Watkins. 奖学金优先颁发给英语专业即将升学的三年级或四年级学生，并且表现出强烈的成为作家的愿望和天赋. Recipients of this scholarship are recommended by the English faculty. Mrs. 沃特金斯是一位艺术家和作家，长期活跃在伯明翰的文化生活和伯明翰南方学院的文学活动中. Her book of poetry, Another Realm，出版于1982年，她的作品曾出现在其他文学出版物上.

The English faculty holds a competition for this scholarship every spring. Current recipients may reapply. This year, the deadline for portfolios is Friday 6 April. 作品集必须在当天4点前交到菲利普斯科学101的人文学部秘书手中. Requirements for the portfolio appear below.

• 所有稿件必须用标准的12号字体打印，双倍行距.
• The portfolio must consist of no more than 2 stories (maximum 20 pages), 10 poems (maximum 20 pages), and 20 pages of non-fiction prose.
• 作品集应按特定顺序排列，并附有一封求职信(单行距)，其中(1)讨论申请人作为作家的成长和未来的职业计划，(2)讨论作品集中的个别作品及其安排.
• 申请人的名字不能出现在任何手稿上，只能出现在求职信上.
• The portfolio and cover letter must be submitted in duplicate, using separate envelopes for each copy.

获奖名单将于荣誉日人文学部颁奖典礼上公布. Recent awards have been for $1000-2000. Winners also receive a copy of Mrs. Watkins' book and a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style.

William Tynes Cowan
Chair, Department of English
Professor of English

Office: 323 Humanities Center
Phone: (205) 226-4871
Email: [email protected]

Tynes Cowan specializes in 19th century American literature, particularly literature of slavery and protest. 他对领导力研究的杰出项目以及人权和冲突研究的辅修项目做出了贡献. Interests include the 1960s, popular culture, and folklore.

Degrees: B.A. (1985) Birmingham-Southern College; M.A.Ed (1990) University of Alabama at Birmingham; M.A. (1992) Northeastern University; Ph.D. (2001) The College of William and Mary.

Arnab Chakraborty
Visiting Lecturer of English

Office: 322 Humanities Center
Phone: (205) 226-4865
Email: [email protected]

Arnab received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India. He is completing a Ph.D. in the Department of English at the University of Kansas. His dissertation Impoverished Agency: Ethics and Compromise in a Posthuman World 研究了20世纪和21世纪美国和跨大西洋小说中代表人类和非人类动物代理的伦理. 他的研究将动物研究、后人文主义、生态批评和后殖民理论联系在一起.

Michael L. Mclnturff
Professor of English

Office: 302 Humanities Center
Phone: (205) 226-7831
Email: [email protected]

Michael L. Mclnturff specializes in literature of the English and Italian Renaissance. 他定期教授莎士比亚，并在e学期期间与学生一起去意大利旅行. Interests include Dante, classical mythology, and fine wine.

Degrees: B.A. (1968) Reed College; Ph.D. (1975) Indiana University. 

Sandra L. Sprayberry
Robert Luckie Professor of English

Office: 306 Humanities Center
Phone: (205) 226-7832
Email: [email protected]

Sandra L. Sprayberry holds degrees in poetry writing and twentieth-century poetry. She is a published poet and scholar, and her work on W. B. Yeats was published as part of Macmillan of London's and the University of Iowa Press's multi-volume critical edition of original Yeats manuscripts; the work has been reviewed in The New York Review of Books, among other publications. 她的教学和研究兴趣包括20世纪和当代诗歌, creative writing, Native American, Irish, and African American literatures, international Human Rights, and travel-study to Ireland and South Africa. She coordinates 澳门新葡京官网's minor in Human Rights and Conflict Studies. Her office houses one of the biggest unofficial Elvis shrines in academia.

Degrees: B.A. (1979), M.F.A. (1983), University of Alabama; Ph.D. (1988) Florida State University.

Joseph Stitt
Associate Lecturer of English

Office: 111 Humanities Center
Phone: (205) 226-4859
Email: [email protected]

乔迪·斯蒂特教授说明文写作、研究方法和创意写作课程. His E-term courses have featured Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, J. R. R. Tolkien, Russian literature, dystopias, humor theory, and the apocalypse.

Degrees: B.A. (1993) M.A. (1995) University of Alabama.

Anna Williams
Assistant Lecturer of English
Co-Director of the Writing Center

Office: 314 Humanities Center
Phone: (205) 226-4972
Email: [email protected]

安娜·威廉姆斯专门研究十八世纪至今的哥特文学. 她制作了第一篇播客论文，并喜欢将新媒体带入课堂. She serves as the Writing Center Co-Director and teaches composition.

Education: B.A. (2008) Birmingham-Southern College; M.A. (2011) University of Alabama; Ph.D. (2019) University of Iowa.