Van Newell

Van Newell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Alabama. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of Montevallo (2000), an M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University (2004), and an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Alabama (2020). His research interests span Creative Writing, Composition & Rhetoric, Literature (with emphases on African-American, Early American, and Late American studies), Digital Humanities, and Critical Theory.

Dr. Newell has received notable awards such as the Hackney Award and Alabama Writers Conclave Award, alongside a fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education’s America Reads Program. His work has been published in journals like Modern Southern Folklore, The Lascaux Review, and Medium.com. He has also been shortlisted for prestigious prizes including the Pushcart Prize and Lascaux Prize.

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