Posted on July 14, 2004 at 10:06 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Linda Frost, Ph.D., has been named as the new associate director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Honors Program. Her appointment becomes effective August 1. She replaces Dail W. Mullins, Ph.D., who recently retired.

Frost is an associate professor of English at UAB, specializing in 19th century American literature and culture, creative writing and feminist theory. She is national president of the Research Society for American Periodicals and is a reviewer for several major journals in her field. She also is founder and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine PMS poemmemoirstory, a journal of women’s writings.

She received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the UAB Honors Program in 1996 and the Faculty Recognition Award from the School of Arts and Humanities in 2001. She was named as the UAB Outstanding Woman Faculty Member earlier this year.

Frost earned her doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990. She has been a member of the UAB faculty since 1993.

The UAB Honors Program provides gifted and highly motivated students with an intimate, innovative and challenging interdisciplinary course of study. Courses in the program are team-taught by faculty and guest lecturers from various disciplines.