Dr. Charles Edgley
Stabler Hall 405
Office: 569.8614
Email: ckedgley@ualr.edu
Charles Edgley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UALR. Previously Dr. Edgley was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University before relocating to Arkansas because of his wife’s health. Dr. Edgley received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-AB) in 1970. His areas of expertise include sociological theory, symbolic interactionist social psychology, medical sociology, postmodernity, and cultural analysis and criticism. He also teaches a popular course on death and dying. Dr. Edgley has written, edited, or revised seven books, as well as publishing numerous articles in his areas of expertise. He is the author of Life as Theater: A Dramaturgical Sourcebook (with Dennis Brissett), a book that has become a standard reference in dramaturgical theory. His most recent book is The Handbook of Thanatology, co-edited with Clifton Bryant, and published in 2004 by Sage Publications. He publishes in and does editorial work regularly for the journal Symbolic Interaction, where he has also published a portion of his research on the health and fitness movement. His most recent publication is entitled “The Fit and Health Body: Consumer Narratives and the Management of Postmodern Corporeity”, a chapter in Waskul and Vannini’s new book Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body. (Ashgate: 2007)