Lisa Gilman is a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who received her Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University. She currently serves as a Professor in Folklore Studies and Public Humanities in George Mason University’s English Department and as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American
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AFS Member, Christine Widmayer, was featured on Eat Your Heartland Out, a radio show broadcasted on the Heritage Radio Network. Widmayer expands on Chaldean Food Traditions in the episode “A Taste of the Middle East in the Midwest.” To access the full episode,
Schenectady’s Daily Gazette wisely turned to New York Folklore’s Ellen McHale for help understanding “folklore” when the music and media world lit up over the recent release of Taylor Swift’s new album of that name. See: Indiana Nash, “Taylor Swift’s new album puts ‘folklore’ in
The Harvard Gazette interviews Maria Tatar, in which she discusses her book “The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters” and how fairy tales (märchen) serve as narratives to “enact all the fantasies, fears, and terrors stored
AFS members Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill review the most influential digital trends of 2019, including the “Greta Thunberg vs. President Trump” and “Storm Area 51” memes, in Utah Public Radio’s Access Utah. See: Tom Williams, “Revisiting The Digital Folklore Trends of 2019 On Thursday’s
The Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) features Alisha Jones, an ethnomusicologist, and Zaheer Ali, an oral historian, in their discussion of music and the definitive role that it plays in times of unrest and in protest. See: Kerri Miller, Marcheta Fornoff and Breann Schossow, “The power of
Maribel Alvarez describes folklore as a discipline that understands the ways of knowing that is grasped by oral tradition and observation, serving as an alternative entry point in addressing global issues such as climate change. Alvarez also introduces a new project, ClimateLore, a planned yearlong
Kathryn Hughes of The Guardian reviews Maria Tatar’s The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters (2020). Hughes states that “Tatar’s avowed intention is to demonstrate the endless fluidity of folktale narratives, the way they wash into one another so that
Los Angeles Times cites folklorist Maribel Alvarez who states that legends of Lupe Hernandez, a nursing student from Bakersfield and inventor of hand sanitizer, have resurfaced in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming a folk hero for the Latinx populations. See: Alejandra Reyes-Velarde
Anthony Buccitelli is Associate Professor of American Studies and Communications in the School of Humanities at The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, and serves as Director of Penn State’s Pennsylvania Center for Folklore. Buccitelli became a member of the American Folklore Society in 2004
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