English News Archive
-
South's Common Read Offers Food for Thought
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities is the 2024-25 Common Read book selection for 2024-25. ...
June 12, 2024 -
Pence Named Mobile Poet Laureate
Dr. Charlotte Pence, director of South's Stokes Center for Creative Writing, is the city's first poet laureate. ...
January 22, 2024 -
'Descendant' Nominated for NAACP Image Award
The film was co-written and co-produced by Dr. Kern Jackson, director of º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×'s African American Studies program. The 54th NAACP Image Awards will be telecast Feb. 25. ...
February 20, 2023 -
Stokes Center for Creative Writing Presents Dionne Irving
Dionne Irving will read from her latest short story collection "The Islands." ...
February 3, 2023 -
Best-Selling Novelist Emily St. John Mandel to Speak at º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×
Emily St. John Mandel will be the keynote speaker as part of The Stokes Center for Creative Writing Visiting Writers' Series. ...
November 2, 2022 -
Folklore Meets Film
Dr. Kern Jackson helps bring the story of Africatown to new audiences in "Descendant." ...
October 19, 2022 -
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language
South's new certificate program for Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language allows students multiple career options. ...
May 2, 2022 -
South Students Attend Human Rights Workshop in U.K.
The Consortium hosts teaching and research seminars on human rights, global conflict, humanitarian aid and peacebuilding. ...
April 4, 2022 -
New Book Shares Hopes, Challenges of American Democracy
º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×'s Cynthia Tucker and Frye Galliard collaborate to write their new book, "The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance." ...
March 29, 2022 -
Phi Kappa Phi Presents Scholar and Artist Awards
South's Phi Kappa Phi chapter has selected Dr. Na Gong as Scholar of the Year, and Dr. Charlotte Pence as Artist of the Year. ...
March 9, 2022 -
South Professor's 'Descendant' Premieres at Sundance Film Festival
Dr. Kern Jackson will be recognized for his work on the film featuring the slave ship Clotilda and Africatown community. ...
January 18, 2022 -
Jackson to Present at 19th Annual Hamner Lecture
Dr. Kern Jackson, director of South's African American Studies program, will speak at the event in the Marx Library Auditorium. ...
October 8, 2021 -
Huge Boost for the Humanities
$453,000 NEH grant is the largest South has ever received for the humanities and will support multiple programs on campus. ...
October 4, 2021 -
South Social Justice Awards Announced
Four members of º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×'s faculty were awarded the first Social Justice Initiative grant awards. ...
January 8, 2021 -
This Is Where I Belong
Winners chosen in for the first, "I Belong" essay competition describing each students' journey that led them to South. ...
December 30, 2020 -
A Life Well Lived
º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× Writer in Residence, Frye Gaillard's latest book is deeply personal memoir of his late wife Nancy. ...
December 1, 2020 -
Alabama's Black Belt Blues
º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× assistant professor Dr. Kern Jackson is featured in an Alabama Public Television documentary on Alabama's blues music history. ...
October 20, 2020 -
º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×'s Pence Receives Fellowship
Alabama Arts Council awards fellowship to Dr. Charlotte Pence as her latest book of poems is scheduled for release. ...
June 18, 2020 -
A Legal Mind, a Basketball IQ
As managing partner at Carlton Fields, Lori Baggett is showing the leadership she once brought to the classroom and the court. ...
March 27, 2020 -
Drive-By Truckers' Hood to Perform
The March 2 event will include a performance by Patterson Hood, a presentation on roots music and a roundtable discussion. ...
February 21, 2020 -
Author Patti Callahan to Hold Workshop
The Stokes Center for Creative Writing will host Callahan, who will conduct a writing workshop and discuss her historical novel. ...
February 11, 2020 -
º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ× to Host Author Edwidge Danticat
The Haitian-born Danticat will visit Jan. 30. Her latest book, 'Everything Inside,' includes stories of her personal journey. ...
January 21, 2020 -
South Helps Host Jewish Film Festival
The Mobile Jewish Film Festival will run from Jan. 16 through Feb. 2. Several of the films will be shown on º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×'s campus. ...
January 14, 2020 -
Collecting History Through Conversation
An Honors College initiative is sending students and faculty into the Mobile-Tensaw Delta to record stories of its people. ...
December 9, 2019 -
South Acquires Southern Writers Collection
The 166-piece collection is being donated by Dr. John and Beverly Iredale to the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library. ...
September 3, 2019