Susan Sontag:

A Novelist from the Beginning to the End

Host: College of Foreign Studies, NAU

Date: Friday 18 May 2018

Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Venue: Teaching Building, Room A310

Speaker: Dr. Barbara Ching

Graduate Teaching in American English Departments

Host: College of Foreign Studies, NAU

Date: Wednesday 23 May 2018

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.

Venue: Teaching Building, Room A310

Speaker: Dr. Barbara Ching

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).