Prof. Barbara Bennett

Department of English

North Carolina State University, USA

Associate Professor

Email: barbara_bennett@ncsu.edu

Qualifications

1994 Ph.D., Arizona State University, American literature

Publications (Selected)

1. Scheherazade’s Daughters: Ecofeminism Storytelling. New York: Peter Lang, Publishing, 2012.
2. Soul of a Lion: One Woman’s Quest to Rescue Africa’s Wildlife Refugees.Washington DC: National Geographic Books, 2010.
3. Understanding Jill McCorkle. Columbia: U South Carolina P, 2000.
4. Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor. Baton Rouge: LSU P, 1998
5. “A Generation Removed: Jill McCorkle and the Rough South.” Forthcoming in The Rough South”: Artistic Representation. Jean Wampler Cash, ed. University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
6. “Loss, Recovery, and Renewal in Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder.” Notes on Contemporary Literature. November 2013. 9-11.
7. “Celtic Influences on Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and The Road.” Notes on Contemporary Literature.November 2008. 2-3.
8. “Gender Understanding in Young Adult Literature: Reading Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach.” North Carolina Literary Review Number 15 (2006). 64-72.
9. “Humor and Gender.” The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.Ed. James G. Thomas. U North Carolina P, 2006. 136.
10. “Ivins, Molly” and “Gingher, Marianne.” Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary.Eds. Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel, and Bryan Giemza. LSU Press, 2006. 215-16, 158.
11. “Betts, Doris.” Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ed. Thomas Inge. 2nd edition. 189-90.
12. “Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' Through an Ecofeminist Lens.” English Journa lVol. 94 No. 6. (July 2005). 63-68.
13. “Reynolds Price.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since WWII. Ed. James Giles. Vol 278. 270-280.
14. “Southern Women Writers and the Women's Movement.” The History of Southern Women's Literature. Eds. Mary Louise Weaks and Carolyn Perry. Louisiana SU P, 2002. 439-446.
15. “Southern Morality Tale: Why ReadTo Kill a Mockingbird.” The Winston-Salem Journal.6 October 2002: A17, 22.
16. “Thelma and Louise in Wonderland: Feminist Revision of Fairytales in McCorkle’s ‘Sleeping Beauty, Revised.’” Pembroke Magazine No. 34 (Winter 2002). 7-12.
17. “Women Writers Since World War II.” The Companion to Southern Literature. Eds. Lucinda MacKe than and Joseph Flora. Louisiana SU P, 2001. 987-992.
18. “Making Peace with the (M)other.” The World is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing.Ed. Jeffrey Folks and Nancy Summers Folks.U Kentucky P, 2000.186-200.
19. “ ‘Reality Burst Forth’: Truth, Lies, and Secrets in the Novels of Jill McCorkle.” The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South. Vol. 36.1 (Fall 1997): 107-122.
20. “It's All Uphill From Here: Confessions of a Post-Doc Job Searcher.” On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search. Eds. Christina Boufis and Victoria Olsen. New York: Riverhead, 1997. 32-37.
21. “A Passionless Course in Peter Taylor's A Summons to Memphis.” Notes on Contemporary Literature Vol. 27.1 (January 1997): 9-10.
22. “View of the Moderns: Conversation with Mrs. Hamilton Basso.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South  4.1 (Spring 1996): 81-97.
23. “Attempting to Connect: Verbal Humor in the Novels of Anne Tyler.” South Atlantic Review 60.1 (January 1995): 57-75.
24. “Outrage and Delight: Scatological Humor in Reynolds Price's The Tongues of Angels."Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 14: 30-39.