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Amy Shuman

Two New Publications by Amy Shuman

Amy Shuman has two new publications. First, with Katharine Young, “The Body as Medium: a Phenomenological Approach to the Production of affect in Narrative” in Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary…

Jordan Lovejoy

Congratulations, Jordan!

Join us in congratulating Jordan Lovejoy, who passed her qualifying exams today with flying colors and will be heading to southern West Virginia for fieldwork in January.  We thank the …

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Dr. Dorothy Noyes awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Folkloristics from the University of Tartu

Dorothy Noyes, Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Studies and former Director of the Center for Folklore Studies, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Folkloristics at the…

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Two Folklore Students Granted Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Fellowship

Two CFS PhD students, Tessa Jacobs and one anonymous, were granted the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Fellowship!

The Global Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship is a…

Mark Bender

Dr. Bender featured in ASC News & Updates

Dr. Mark Bender, professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, was featured in the November 28, 2018 News & Updates from the College of Arts and Sciences. The…

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Ohio Field Schools Placemaking exhibit featured by ASC

The launch of Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit, a project of the Center for Folklore Studies' Ohio Field School initiative, was featured by the College of Arts…

Sheila Bock

Alumna interprets Brett Kavanaugh’s proverbial discourse

Center for Folklore Studies alumna, Dr. Sheila Bock, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, helps us to interpret Brett Kavanaugh’s proverbial…
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Folklore doctoral candidates selected to receive Fulbright-Hays funding

Five doctoral candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences have been selected for funding under the 2018 U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA…

Sara Cleto

Congratulations, Dr. Cleto!

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Cleto, who defended her dissertation, "Bodies of Stories: Disability and Folklore in Nineteenth-Century British Literature." Her advisors were Ray Cashman and…