Robert Cochran

Professor
(Ph.D. University of Toronto)

Office: KIMP 334
MAIN 506
Phone: (479)575-4301
(479)575-7708
rcochran@uark.edu

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).

Others:

Chair of American Studies, Director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies.