Lecturers

Barbara Barnes

Continuing Lecturer

Barbara Barnes' current work examines the production of normalized and embodied national identities through the emotional appeal of outdoor adventure sport and travel in both practice and representation. She completed a dissertation entitled "Global Extremes: Spectacles of Wilderness Adventure, Endless Frontiers, & American Dreams" in December 2006 at the University of California Santa Cruz that used multiple methods (i.e., ethnography, media analysis, cultural history) to examine the cultural-historical significance of outdoor adventure in the United States during the final...