Daisy Ahlstone is a folklorist studying environmental storytelling through the lens of folklore, eco-criticism, posthumanism, and community-engaged methodologies. They are interested in the ways legend, extinction, material culture, metaphor, and community interact. Daisy also collaborates on several folklore and community-centered projects, including the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (https://likenknowledge.org/), the Western States Folklore Society (http://www.westernfolklore.org/), and a YouTube and Twitch streaming channel called Folkwise, which approaches the study of tradition non-traditionally  (https://www.twitch.tv/folkwise).

Feel free to send me an email about my work, professional studies, or folklore! CV available via LinkedIn.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Tartaglia, Dominick, and Kaitlyn Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Anna Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, Jared L. Schmidt. 2023. “Becoming Folkwise: Sustaining Digital Community while Socially Distant.” Cultural Analysis (1): Pandemic & Politics. 

2023. “Gaming Extinction: Representations of the Thylacine in Video Games.” Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger, edited by Gareth Linnard and Branden Holmes, 176-179. CSIRO Publishing [Book received 2023 Whitley Award for Historical Zoology].

2023. “Narrating Perseverance: An Overview of Thylacines in Fiction.” Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger, edited by Gareth Linnard and Branden Holmes, 175. CSIRO Publishing [Book received 2023 Whitley Award for Historical Zoology].

2022. “Giving Life to Legends: Material Representation of Ostensive Behavior.” Western Folklore. 82(1): 3-59.

2018. “Thylacine Dreams: The Vernacular Resurrection of an Extinct Marsupial.” M.A. Thesis. (2019). Committee Members: Dr. Lynne McNeill (Chair), Dr. Christine Cooper-Rompato, and Dr. John McLaughlin. Utah State University: Logan: UT.

“Forbidden Foodways: Tide Pods, Ostensive Practice, and Intergenerational Conflict.” Co-Authored with Camille Sleight and Michelle Jones. Contemporary Legend 3.8 (2018): 86-112.

BOOK REVIEWS:

 2022. “Posthuman Folklore” by Tok Thompson. Western Folklore 81(1): 75-78.

 2021. “Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective” by Quinn, Jocey, and Claudia Blandon. Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 1 (Winter).

 2019. “Culture and Value: Heritage, Tourism and Property” by Regina Bendix. Western Folklore 78, no. 4 (Fall): 357-359.

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARENCES:

2024. “EP 29: Daisy Ahlstone” Interviewed by Spencer George. Good Folk Podcast, Substack Podcasts. 01 February 2024. Audio, 01:07:45.

2023. “S2E1 Mark My Wizard (Research, Inclusivity, & Collaboration)” Interviewed by Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus. Digital Folklore Podcast, Apple Podcasts. 06 September 2023. Audio, 00:48:37.

 2021. “Episode 156 - Thylacines with Folklorist Daisy Ahlstone” Interviewed by Paul Romero and Ben Radford. Squaring the Strange, Apple Podcasts. 16 August 2021. Audio, 01:36:49.

2021. “Interview with… Daisy from Folkwise?” Interview by Dom Tartaglia. Discusses current dissertation research, environmental folklore, extinction, and thylacines. Twitch, Folkwise. 16 March 2021. Video, 01:03:20.

Find me on Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisyahlstone/

Twitter: @thyla_daisy

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzj72KhvvLfz1E3oI3Bmt9A?view_as=subscriber

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/folkwise