Joan Burbick is
Professor of English. She teaches 19th and 20th century American literatures and cultures with an emphasis on the cultures and peoples in the American West.
Her most recent book is Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy (The New Press, 2006). Previous books include: Rodeo Queens and the American Dream (PublicAffairs, 2002), Healing the Republic: The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and Thoreau’s Alternative History: Changing Perspectives on Nature, Culture, and Language (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987).
Her most recent article is “The Cultural Anatomy of a Gun Show,” forthcoming, Stanford Law and Policy Review. She is currently writing about the Snake River and revising a novel.
e-mail: burbick@wsu.edu
link: http://joanburbick.com/main.html
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