Brooke Champagne – Studying Religion in Culture

The REL Journal Group: Health or Perceived Health Benefits

October 24, 2017 by Russell McCutcheon

The following exchange between Prof. Russell McCutcheon and Sierra Lawson, a graduate student in our MA program, reflects on the recent meeting of REL’s monthly journal reading group, part of our Religion in Culture MA. Russell: Sierra, in your undergrad here at UA you did a double major in Anthropology and Religious Studies, and I know that you have an interest in medical anthropology. So presumably that helped direct your choice of this article for our journal group (written by […]

The Nature of Truth, Categorization, and Other Blurry Matters

April 23, 2014 by admin

By Brooke Champagne Brooke Champagne is an instructor of English and the Assistant Director of First-Year Writing at The University of Alabama. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from Louisiana State University. While she makes her living as a teacher, she is a perennial student of writing, religion, and language, including REL 419 in Spring 2014. If categorization is an ideological act, then the literary nonfiction genre is undergoing a major existential crisis. While there […]

The Quarterback

February 12, 2014 by admin

By Brooke Champagne Brooke Champagne is an instructor of English and the Assistant Director of First-Year Writing at The University of Alabama. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from Louisiana State University. While she makes her living as a teacher, she is a perennial student of writing, religion, and language, including REL 419 in Spring 2014. On July 13, 2013, 31-year-old Glee star Cory Monteith died of a heroin and alcohol overdose. He was found […]