Alice Randall
Curb Center names Creative Campus grant recipients
Sep. 14, 2012—Creativity. Innovation. Change. The Curb Center at Vanderbilt is pleased to announce the winners of its signature Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program, which provides Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students the opportunity to produce original ideas, experiment and innovate in the classroom, and harness their creativity as a force for positive social change. In 2012-13, the...
Listen: Vanderbilt environment shapes Randall’s novel
May. 15, 2012—Vanderbilt University Writer-in-Residence Alice Randall credits the school’s creative and interdisciplinary approaches to obesity-related diseases like diabetes with providing “fertile ground” for her new novel, Ada’s Rules (Bloomsbury USA).
New York Times op-ed: Black women and fat
May. 7, 2012—"My goal is to be the last fat black woman in my family," writes Alice Randall, writer in residence at Vanderbilt and author of "Ada's Rules."
Randall to sign new novel at area bookstores
May. 3, 2012—Vanderbilt Writer in Residence Alice Randall will discuss her new novel, Ada’s Rules, at Parnassus Books in Nashville at 6:30 p.m. May 8, and at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt at 2 p.m. May 19. The book tells the story of the fictitious Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville’s Full Love Baptist Tabernacle....
A Way With Words
May. 1, 2012—Senior Nate Marshall’s passion for poetry helped him find his voice – and his calling Nate Marshall is all about the words. He started writing poetry in grammar school, and in the eighth grade, when a poem he wrote got him detention, Marshall realized two things: His words could have an impact, and he’d have...
Listen: From barbecue to Burt, Southern lit conference covers the gamut
Mar. 23, 2012—Approximately 150 professors and graduate students from across the nation with expertise in Southern writing and related topics will gather in Nashville March 29-31 for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s biannual conference. This year’s theme is anniversaries, according to Michael Kreyling, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and president of the professional support...
From barbecue to Burt, Southern lit conference covers the gamut
Mar. 21, 2012—More than 150 professors and graduate students from across the nation with expertise in Southern writing and related topics will gather in Nashville March 29-31 for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s biannual conference.
Faculty featured at Southern Festival of Books Oct. 14-16
Oct. 11, 2011—Several Vanderbilt faculty members will be featured at this year’s Southern Festival of Books, a celebration of authors, writing and reading. The annual three-day event takes place in downtown Nashville at Legislative Plaza and the Tennessee Capitol Building Oct. 14-16. The festival will feature dozens of authors, including novelists Ann Patchett and Clyde Edgerton, and...
Vanderbilt writer Alice Randall accepted for Yaddo residency
Mar. 24, 2011—The history of the Yaddo property stretches back to a tavern where many writers including Edgar Allan Poe dined in the 19th century.