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Joan Burbick was born in Chicago and has lived for
the last thirty years on the West Coast. She received her
B. A. from
Boston College, an M. A. and Ph. D. from Brandeis University and a
second
M. A. from Wesleyan University.
She has written four books and numerous articles and
reviews on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and
culture. Her writings include literary critiicism, cultural studies,
nonfiction, and poetry.
She is a full professor of English and American
Studies at Washington State University where she has held two endowed
professorships in English and Liberal Arts. She has also been the Marta
Sutton Weeks Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a Andrew W.
Mellon Fellow at the Center for Humanities, Wesleyan University.
In 2004, she completed a month residency at the
Bellagio Study and Conference Center at the Rockefeller Foundation in
Bellagio, Italy. She has given readings and papers throughout the
United States, Europe, China, and the Middle East. After the
release of Gun Show Nation in the fall of 2006, she gave readings on gun culture throughout the United
States, including the Harvard Medical School, The Friends Center in
Philadelphia, and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., She
has also discussed her recent book on over twenty public radio stations
in the United States and England.
In the spring of 2008, she was the Fulbright
Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the American Studies Center,
University of Warsaw, Poland. During this period, she give
readings and lectures in both Poland and Germany. In the spring
of 2009, she will be the Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in American
Studies at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
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