Sandra L. Ballard
Professor / Editor Appalachian Journal
Office Location: 472 Belk Library
Office Phone: 828-262-4072
Email Address: ballardsl@appstate.edu
Education:
B.A., Appalachian State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Academic Specialty:
American literature, Appalachian literature
Sandy Ballard joined the ASU English Department faculty in 2000 as the editor of Appalachian Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly quarterly founded in 1972. She is the author of essays and reviews in American literature, with special interest in Appalachian authors. With Patricia L. Hudson, she co-edited the anthology Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (2003), and she has co-edited a collection of short stories by Harriette Simpson Arnow. She is active in the Appalachian Studies Association. In 2007 she received the Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature Award from the Appalachian Writers Association.
Relevant Publications:
Neighbor to Neighbor: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Civil War in Appalachian North Carolina. Eds. Sandra L. Ballard and Leila Weinstein. Boone, NC: Center for Appalachian Studies, 2007.
The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow. Eds. Sandra L. Ballard and Haeja Chung. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005.
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Eds. Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
"Tracing Trips to Hindman." Crossing Troublesome: 25 Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop. Eds. George Ella Lyon and Leatha Kendrick. Lexington: Wind Publications, 2002. 95, 125.
"Where Did Hillbillies Come From? Tracing Sources of the Comic Fool in Literature." Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes. Eds. Dwight Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999. 138-49.
"Introduction." Hunter's Horn by Harriette Arnow. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1997. v-xv.
Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Carolinas and Appalachian States. With Patricia L. Hudson. New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1989. Revised edition, 1998.
