August 13, 2009

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor of English Jacqueline Wood, Ph.D., has been named interim director of the UAB African-American Studies Program.

Wood succeeds Dellita Martin-Ogunsola, Ph.D., who retired July 31.

Wood teaches in the UAB Department of English, specializing in 20th-century African-American literature with an emphasis on African-American women dramatists. As a professor participating in the UAB African-American Studies Program, she teaches African-American literature survey courses, African-American drama, African-American poetry and literature of the African Diaspora.

In addition, she has taught courses on the early American immigrant experience, women writers of color and composition and culture.

Wood has published articles on contemporary black women dramatists Adrienne Kennedy and Suzan-Lori Parks in journals such as Studies in the Humanities, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, College Literature, The African American Review and The College Language Association Journal. She also edited a collection of Sonia Sanchez's plays, I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays by Sonia Sanchez, published by Duke University Press, which is due out in 2010.

Wood has been a member of the UAB faculty since 1999.

About the UAB African-American Studies Program

UAB African-American Studies is a unique, multidisciplinary program with a curriculum that focuses on the humanities and social sciences. The program offers both a bachelor's degree and a minor in African-American Studies.