Young artists at play in Austin, 1974 In this post I feature two articles I published in 2024, both with a retrospective bent. Perhaps retrospection is the modality suiting my current stage of life, though I’d hate to rule out new incursions into the fabric of reality; in fact, I have a couple in the… Read more »

Well into my fourth year of retirement, a blissful state of being, I am keeping active with projects to my liking, and at a pace to my liking (for the most part). I persist as editor of the Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (JFRR), working with colleagues William Hansen, Henry Glassie, and Brandon Barker, with… Read more »

Retirement Party In May of 2022, the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology threw a grand retirement party for five of us stalwarts, me, Diane Goldstein, Daniel Reed, Greg Schrempp, and Sue Tuohy. I was fortunate to have on hand a fine representation of the immediate family, seen in all our glory here:  

Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), which I edited with Katey Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, and Sue Tuohy; it contains my chapter, “Ecoperformativity: Expressive Culture as Spiritual, Pedagogical, and Activist Resource.” Performing Environmentalisms

Children’s Folklore Section, American Folklore Society: Lifetime Achievement Award UC Berkeley Folklore Podcast: Interview with Visiting Professor John McDowell folklore.berkeley.edu/podcast(episode 4)   Taita Imbabura: Reverence and Mirth in Mountain Worship. Folklor Edebiyat (Folklore & Literature): Prof. Dr. Ihan Basgoz 100th Special Issue, pages 759-769: folkloredebiyat.org

“Transitionality: The Border as Barrier and Bridge.” In Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes, edited by Roberto Cantú. Cambridge Press, pages 86-101.   “Folklore and Sociolinguistics.” Humanities 7, 9: 1-12. http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/1/9/pdf   “Collage of Colors: Processing Place through Fantasy Play.” Children’s Folklore Review 39 (2018): 62-91. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cfr/article/view/25376/31238   ***** See the George List collection of traditional Afro-Colombian tales introduced… Read more »