“Anglo-American Academic Fiction as Comedy: Should Education Have a Happy Ending?”
by
Dr. Barbara Ching
Date: Wednesday 16 May 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.
Venue:Teaching Building, Room A310
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Dr. Barbara Ching is a full professor and chair of the Department of English at Iowa State University. Ching’s research has most recently focused on Susan Sontag, Academic Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Selected Publications:
1. The Scandal of Susan Sontag: Public and Private Affairs (2009), co-edited with Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor.
2. Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music (2008), co-edited with Pamela Fox.
3. Wrong’s What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture (2001).
4. Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity, and Cultural Hierarchy (1997), edited with Gerald Creed.
5. “The Cow College and Critical Rural Knowledge.” (2016).
6. “Murder Ballads and Hunger Games: Re-collecting Rural America.” (2015).
7. “‘If Only They Could Read between the Lines’: Alice Randall and the Integration of Country Music.” (2013).
8. “High Regard: Words and Pictures in Tribute to Susan Sontag.” (2007).
