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Terry Barr, Ph.D.

Professor of English and Director of Media Studies
English

Education

Ph.D. English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
MA, English, Univ of Tennessee-Knoxville
BA, English and Political Science, University of Montevallo

Research or Areas of Specialty

Creative Nonfiction
Modern Novel
Film and American Culture
Graphic Novels

Recognitions

  • Professor of the Year –2010-11

Classes at PC

  • Film and American Culture
  • Media and SEC Football
  • Holocaust Literature
  • Modern British and American Novel
  • The Southern Film Experience
  • Rock and Soul Literature
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Writing About Music
  • Queer Graphic Novel

Publications

Four essay collections:

  • Don’t Date Baptists and Other Warnings From My Alabama Mother
  • We Might As Well Eat: On Food, Football, and My Southern Family
  • Secrets I’m Dying to Tell You
  • The American Crisis Playlist
  • (All published by Redhawk Publications, Hickory, NC.)

Continuous blog at Medium.com.