BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor of English Jacqueline Wood, Ph.D., has been elected to the College Language Association’s executive board.

Wood was elected as secretary of the board during the College Language Association’s annual meeting in April. She will serve a two-year term.

Wood teaches in the UAB Department of English. She specializes in 20th century African-American literature with a special emphasis on African-American women dramatists.

The College Language Association, founded in 1937, is an organization of predominantly African-American college and university professors of English and foreign languages that serves the academic, scholarly and professional interests of its members and the collegiate communities they represent.