December 4, 2009

Feb. 2

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) BookTalk book club will discuss Grass Widow: Making My Way in Depression Alabama by Viola Goode Liddell. The discussion will be led by UAB English Instructor Rebecca Duncan. The UAB BookTalk book club, sponsored by the UAB English Department, is free and open to the public; it meets at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month, excluding January, in the UAB Mervyn H. Sterne Library Henley Room, 917 13th St. South. Call 205-934-4250 for more details.

March 2

The UAB BookTalk book club will discuss The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annett Gordon-Reed. The discussion will be led by UAB Assistant Professor of English Cassandra Ellis, Ph.D. The UAB BookTalk book club, sponsored by the UAB English Department, is free and open to the public; it meets at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month, excluding January, in the UAB Mervyn H. Sterne Library Henley Room, 917 13th St. South. Call 205-934-4250 for more details.

April 6

The UAB BookTalk book club will discuss The Rape of Shavi by Buchi Emecheta. The discussion will be led by UAB English Instructor Rabía Hakima. The UAB BookTalk book club, sponsored by the UAB English Department, is free and open to the public; it meets at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month, excluding January, in the UAB Mervyn H. Sterne Library Henley Room, 917 13th St. South. Call 205-934-4250 for more details.

May 4

The UAB BookTalk book club will discuss Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. The discussion will be led by UAB Professor of English William Hutchings, Ph.D. The UAB BookTalk book club, sponsored by the UAB English Department, is free and open to the public; it meets at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month, excluding January, in the UAB Mervyn H. Sterne Library Henley Room, 917 13th St. South. Call 205-934-4250 for more details.

About the UAB Department of English

The UAB Department of English offers an undergraduate degree in English with concentrations in creative writing, linguistics or professional writing and public discourse and graduate degrees in literature, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing.