Professor, Chair of American Studies, Director of the Center for Arkansas and
Regional Studies
(Ph.D. University
of Toronto)
Office: KIMP 334
MAIN
506
Phone: (479)575-4301
(479)575-7708
rcochran@uark.edu
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Teaching Interests: Folklore, American Studies, Contemporary
Literature, World Drama
Selected Publications:Vance
Randolph: An Ozark Life (Illinois, 1985); Samuel
Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction (G. K. Hall, 1991); "Unable to Sleep, The Father Fills Page After
Page" (fiction; The Quarterly, 1991); A Mountain Life:
Walter Williams of Newton County, Arkansas (film, 1992);
"Deliberate Valediction: Williams' 'Pictures from Brueghel'" (Tennessee
Quarterly, 1994); Our Own sweet
Sounds: A History of Arkansas Music (Arkansas, 1996); "Singing in Zion: Music and Song in
the Life of an Arkansas Family" (Arkansas, 1999); A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist
Geleve Grice (Arkansas, 2003)
Awards and Honors: Fulbright Lectureship to Romania (1985);Fulbright
Lectureship to Hungary (1986);co-winner of Elsie Clews Parsons prize for best book in
folklore studies (1986); Guggenheim
Fellowship (1989); Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship to
Korea (1995)
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