The department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGS) is composed of administrators, a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) and Teaching Faculty.

WGS Administrators oversee planning, programming, and day-to-day operations.

The WGS Program Advisory Committee (PAC) is made up of faculty and staff who consult on curricular matters, choose scholarship and award winners, and advise on vision and programming.

The WGS Teaching Faculty includes numerous faculty members (from several colleges at UAH) who teach classes designated as Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies courses.

 

Dr. Alanna Frost

Associate Professor Women’s,
Gender,
and Sexuality Studies Coordinator

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 246
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.2373
alanna.frost@uah.edu

Biography

Alanna Frost is a writing studies scholar who teaches classes in first-year writing, literacy studies, and cultural rhetorics. Her research is invested in the intersections of writers’ communicative realities, English-education practice, and English language policy. She is a member of the editorial team of Literacy in Composition Studies.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, 2008
  • M.A., English Literature, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2000
  • B.Ed., English and Geography, University of Victoria, 1994

Expertise

  • Literacy Studies
  • Cultural Rhetorics
  • Composition Theory and Pedagogy

Recent Publications

  • “In Order to ‘Say What We Say:’ Archival Protocol that Attends to Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric. Winter 2026

  • “Challenging Authenticity and Indigenous Literature in the Preservice Teachers’ Course.” Journal of Literacy Innovation. Fall 2025

  • Translingual Dispositions: Globalized Approaches to the Teaching of English. Co-edited with Julia Kiernan and Suzanne Blum Malley. WAC Clearinghouse, 2020.

  • Translingual Pedagogical Practice. Co-edited with Julia Kiernan and Suzanne Blum Malley. UP Colorado. 2020