David Ullrich

David William Ullrich (born August 25, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois; died December 5, 2023 in Birmingham) was a professor and chair of the English department at Birmingham-Southern College.

Ullrich was one of two sons of William Joseph and Arlene Kathryn Ring Ullrich of Chicago. He earned a bachelor of arts at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1975. He married pathologist Joanne Murphy in 1977 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1986. While working on his doctorate he taught classes at Wisconsin and at Ripon College.

He and his wife moved to Birmingham in 1986 where he began teaching at Birmingham-Southern's Adult Studies program. He was soon promoted to professor and earned tenure. He chaired the English department and received the McWilliams Faculty Scholar Award before retiring in 2022. In addition to teaching, Ullrich served on the editorial board of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review and co-edited a collection of essays on Fitzgerald's 1922 novel The Beautiful and Damned. His poems were publised locally and his metal sculptures were exhibited at Birmingham-Southern and Little House Gallery.

Ullrich died from multiple myeloma in 2023. He was survived by his wife had two children, Dana and Jack.

References

• "David Ullrich" obituary (December 13, 2023) AL.com