Queer as Folklore (Manchester University Press) travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.
Folklorist Lydia Fish died on January 19, 2026 in Buffalo, NY at the age of eighty-seven.
The Southern Foodways Alliance oral history program invites experienced oral historians to submit proposals for oral history projects. Applications are due March 16, 2026.
Tales for Fairies (Wayne State University Press) is an exploration of how classic fairy tales have been transformed to illuminate and celebrate queer identities.
The Soul of a Folklorist (Indiana University Press) examines how, as folklorists moved toward a perspective that increasingly explored the responsibility of presentation and representation of gender, race, class, and other areas of inequities, the discipline gradually came to understand both the power of its own subject and structures of subordination within the field.
The US Regional Arts Organizations (US RAO) announced the grant recipients of Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color. A total of $3.34 million has been awarded to 96 grantees.
Applications are open now for the Program and Communication Coordinator – a dynamic position supporting key activities across the team. Applications will be accepted through February 17, 2026.
The JAF Collective has extended the deadline for submissions addressing any aspect of generative AI and folklore for a themed issue of the Journal of American Folklore. The extended deadline is March 1, and the target for publication is Summer 2027. For
The American Folklore Society held its 137th Annual Meeting from Oct. 18-21 in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by the virtual component Nov. 12-14. Combined, the two parts of the meeting brought together almost 900 attendees, approximately 600 of whom were presenters.
The Kentucky Arts Council will host a free webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 11 a.m. Eastern, featuring two traditional artists whose work reflects foodways, foraging, and folk healing practices rooted in eastern and central Kentucky. Register to receive the Zoom invitation.
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