About the Authors
Emilie Anderson-Grégoire is a student at the University of Winnipeg and a fairy-tale aficionada.
Marcie Fehr is in women’s and gender studies at the University of Winnipeg. Her work focuses on racial masquerade, critical race theory, and queer theory, and she is English student representative on the executive of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada / Association canadienne d’ethnologie et de folklore.
Ann K. Ferrell is assistant professor of folk studies, Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, Western Kentucky University. She holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University and is the author of Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century (2013). Her research with Kentucky farmers continues.
Pauline Greenhill is professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Winnipeg. Her recent books include Make the Night Hideous: Four English-Canadian Charivaris (2010), Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity (Sidney Eve Matrix, coeditor, 2010), and Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (Kay Turner, coeditor, 2012).
Kendra Magnus-Johnston is a Ph.D. student at the University of Manitoba and teaching/research assistant at the University of Winnipeg, where she completed her B.A. (rhetoric and communications) and M.A. (cultural studies). She has published in Journal of Folklore Research, Children’s Literature Quarterly, Marvels & Tales, and Young Scholars in Writing.
Kirsten Møllegaard is associate professor of English at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. She teaches literature, film, folklore, and mythology and has published on contemporary legends, retellings of myth and folklore in literature and film, tourism and contemporary legends in Hawai’i, and haunting and history in contemporary literature of the American West.
Patrick B. Mullen is professor emeritus in the English department at Ohio State University. His books include The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore (2008) and Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly (1991). He is working on a book about the roots of rock ’n’ roll from a fan’s perspective.
William G. Pooley has just completed a doctorate on the Gascon folklorist Félix Arnaudin (1844–1921) at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the history of the body and folklore in the French-speaking world.
LuAnne Roth is assistant teaching professor of folklore and film in the University of Missouri’s Department of English. She is currently preparing a book manuscript, “Talking Turkey,” which examines representations of the Thanksgiving meal in the media, and is curating a digital archive of food scenes in film and television.
Patricia Sawin, associate professor and coordinator of the Folklore Program, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, researches narrative performance of gender identity and the politics of recycling others’ speech. She has written Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories (2004).
Diane Tye is professor of folklore at Memorial University. She is author of Baking as Biography: A Life Story in Recipes (2010), coeditor with Pauline Greenhill of Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada (1997), and coeditor with Michael Lange of Digest, the online journal of the American Folklore Society’s Foodways section.
Theresa A. Vaughan is professor and chairperson of the University of Central Oklahoma’s Department of Humanities and Philosophy. She earned a Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University, and was coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife. She is currently co-convener of the American Folklore Society’s Women’s section.
Anne B. Wallen (Ph.D., University of Minnesota in German and Scandinavian studies) is assistant director for national scholarships and fellowships in the University Honors Program at the University of Kansas, where she also teaches a freshman honors seminar in cultural studies. Her research focuses on German-Scandinavian cultural exchange since the eighteenth century.
Wenjuan Xie is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at the University of Alberta. She has written on oral tradition and professional storytellers in China, Chinese-language films, and gender studies. She is currently working on her thesis, “Trans-formation, Trans-ambiguity, and Trans-performance: Reading Transgender Stories from Ming-Qing China, 14th–19th Century.”