Manning Receives Lifetime Membership Award

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor Maryann Manning, Ed.D., has received the Lifetime Membership Award from the National Council of Teachers of English, (NCTE) Whole Language Umbrella. The award was presented to Manning at the NCTE Literacy Conference in St. Louis, Mo., earlier this month. Manning was selected based on her publishing and lecturing widely in the field of literacy. She is the author and co-author of 15 books and more than 150 articles on reading and writing education and interdisciplinary teaching. Manning has chaired the Young Authors’ Conference at UAB for 19 years and the Mid-South Reading and Writing Institute. She also has been active with the Alabama Reading Initiative and the Alabama Reading Association. Manning is a professor in the UAB School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Hutchings Presents Paper at Joyce Symposium

UAB Professor William Hutchings, Ph.D., was a presenter at the Bloomsday 100: The 19th International James Joyce Symposium held at the National College of Ireland in Dublin, June 12-19. More than 900 scholars and students attended the conference, which was designed to encourage scholarship, criticism and the study of the life, work and career of Joyce. Hutchings delivered his paper “The ‘Dubliners’ Overtures Or ‘[You] Could Interpret These Signs’: Teaching the Narrative/Rhetorical Strategies of Joyce’s First Sentences.” In his paper, Hutchings discussed his method for helping students understand the writing style of Joyce through an examination of the first sentence of his works. The subject was developed out of Hutchings’ teaching of Joyce at UAB. Hutchings is a professor in the School of Arts and Humanities’ Department of English.