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Esther A. Clinton Department of Popular Culture School of Cultural and Critical Studies 346 Shatzel Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403-0190 (419) 372-8204 [email protected] EDUCATION 2005 Ph.D. Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Dissertation: Tales Online: Lessons for the Field of Folklore Minor: Old English and German Philology 1997 M.A. Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington, IN M.A. Exam Passed with Distinction Coursework included Old English and Old Norse language and literature, folklore and literature, mythology, cosmology, Classical Greek and Roman popular culture, teaching folklore, folkloristics, fieldwork, genre studies, and performance theory 1994 B.A. (No majors) Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Division III (senior thesis) title: “Demon or Trickster: Satan in the Old English Genesis.” Coursework included Old English language and literature, Arthurian literature, comparative folklore, anthropology, European history, Mayan culture, and Biblical studies PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE BGSU FACULTY POSITIONS 2011-present Adjunct Professor Department of Popular Culture 2010-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Popular Culture 2008-2010 Adjunct Professor Department of Popular Culture 2006-2008 Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Popular Culture OTHER FACULTY POSITIONS Fall 2004 – Adjunct Instructor LEAP (Learn English for Academic Purposes, ESL Summer 2006 program, Marshall University, Huntington, WV). Fall 2004- Adjunct Instructor General Education, W. Virginia State University, Fall 2005 HBU in Institute, WV. Spring 2003 Full-time Instructor English, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ. Fall 2002 Adjunct Instructor English, Hudson County Community College. Fall 2002 Adjunct Instructor English, Bergen County Community College, Paramus, NJ. Fall 1998- Adjunct Instructor Anthropology, Indiana University – Purdue Uni- Summer 2001 versity, Indianapolis, IN. Spring 1999 Adjunct Instructor Anthropology, Indiana University, Kokomo, IN. Fall 1995- Associate Instructor Folklore, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Spring 1996 PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES Bardine, Bryan and Esther Clinton. “Editorial: Metal and Cultural Impact.” Special Issue: Metal and Cultural Impact. Metal Music Studies 2 (3), 2016: 259-262. Clinton, Esther. “Academia Against Popular Culture: Popular Culture Against Academia.” Journal of World Popular Music Studies 6(2): 228-231, 2019. _______. “Proverbial Play: Proverbs in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.” Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 31 2014: 133-165. DeLisser, Horace M., Carla C. Keirns, Esther A. Clinton and Mitchell Margolies. “‘The Air Got to It’: Exploring a Belief about Lung Cancer.” Journal of the National Medical Association. 101: 8, 2009: 765-771. Wallach, Jeremy and Esther Clinton. “History, Modernity and Music Genre in Indonesia: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Asian Music 44:2, 2013: 3-23. BOOK CHAPTERS Clinton, Esther, “Trickster” in Hasan El-Shamy and Jane Garry, ed., Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. Clinton, Esther and Jeremy Wallach. “Talking Metal: A Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out in Metal Culture.” In Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience (Nelson Varas-Díaz and Niall W. R. Scott, eds.) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 37-55, 2016. Moser, Sarah, Esther Clinton, and Jeremy Wallach. “Leisure Activities in Southeast Asia.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory (Karl Spracklen, Erin Sharpe, Spencer Swain, Brett Lashua, eds.). Palgrave, 107-125, 2017. Wallach, Jeremy and Esther Clinton. “Ethnomusicology, Postcolonial Theory, and Globalization.” Theory in Ethnomusicology Today (Ruth Stone and Harris M. Berger, eds.). Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall, 114-139, 2019. Wallach, Jeremy and Esther Clinton. “The Horror and the Allure: Metal, Power, Gothic Literature, and Multi-subjectivity.” In Connecting Metal to Culture: Unity in Disparity (Miko Elovaara and Bryan Bardine, eds.). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 99-118, 2017. ________. “Recoloring the Metal Map: Metal and Race in Global Perspective.” In Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures (Toni-Matti Karjarlainen and Kimi Kärki, eds.) Helsinki: Aalto University School of Business, 274-282, 2015. EDITOR, JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Bardine, Bryan and Esther Clinton, eds. Special Issue: Metal and Cultural Impact. Metal Music Studies 2 (3), 2016. Wallach, Jeremy and Esther Clinton, eds. Special Issue: Constructing Genre in Indonesian Popular Music: From Colonized Archipelago to Contemporary World Stage. Asian Music 44:2, Fall 2013. BOOK REVIEWS Clinton, Esther, Review of Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn Harris, and Mark Levine, (eds). “Heavy Metal: Controversies and Counterculture” (London: Equinox, 2013). Volume! La revue de musiques populaires (The French Journal of Popular Music Studies) 9:2 2012; 233-235. Clinton, Esther, Review of Thomas A. Green, ed., The Greenwood Library of American Folktales (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006). Journal of American Folklore. 125:496, Spring 2012; 250-252. IN PROGRESS Wallach, Jeremy and Esther Clinton. “Is Heavy Metal a Protest Music?” In The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music (Noriko Manabe and Eric Drott, eds.). New York: Oxford University Press. _______. “Alfred Schutz, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Ethnography of Musical Experience.” The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenology and Ethnomusicology (Harris M. Berger, Friedlind Riedel, and David VanderHamm, eds.). New York: Oxford University Press. _______. “Epilogue: Sesuatu Pandangan yang Merakyat [An Approach Close to the People]: The Bowling Green Approach.” In Handbook Penelitian Komunikasidan Budaya [The Handbook of Communications and Cultural Research], (Idi Subandy Ibrahim and Baschruddin Ali Akhmad, eds.). Bandung, Indonesia: Penerbit Simbiosa. Wallach, Jeremy and Esther Clinton, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Heavy Metal Music. Book proposal to be submitted to Oxford University Press. ______. “How to Train Your Dragon to Be a Fairy Tale Character: Poetics and Parallelisms in a Modern Blockbuster.” Article in progress; to be submitted to Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy Tale Studies. ______. Rethinking Tale Types: Lessons for the Field of Folklore. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, book manuscript under contract. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING Programming Committee, Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. University of Dayton, Ohio, April 2019. Programming Committee, Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2018. Programming Committee, “Metal in Strange Places.” University of Dayton, Ohio, October 2016. International Partner, Modern Heavy Metal Conference. Helsinki, Finland, June 2015. Programming Committee, “Metal and Cultural Impact.” University of Dayton, Ohio. November 2014. Organizer and Planning Committee, “Heavy Metal and Popular Culture.” International Academic Conference. Bowling Green, Ohio. April 2013. Local Arrangements Co-Chair, “Music and Everyday Life” Conference. Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bowling Green, Ohio. April 2011. Organizing Committee, Asian Popular Culture Symposium, BGSU. Bowling Green, Ohio, April 2010. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Co-Presenter with Jeremy Wallach, “Theorizing Postcolonial Asian Rock.” To be presented at the 21st Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Daegu, Korea; July 2021. Co-Presenter with Esther Clinton, “Burgerkill Plays Dayton: The Arrival of Indonesian Metal in Ohio.” Presented at The Seventh Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Virtual); December 2020. Co-Presenter with Jeremy Wallach, “Metal Riles the Globe, or Does It? The Limits of a Proud Pariah’s Music.” Presented at the Fourth Biannual Meeting of the International Society of Metal Music Studies. Nantes, France, June 2019. “Black Wings, Black Words: Proverbs in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire,” BGSU Popular Culture Colloquium Series. February 2019. Roundtable participant, “Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Popular Music Scholarship,” Society for Ethnomusicology 63rd Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2018. Co-Presenter with Jeremy Wallach, “‘United We Never Shall Fall’: Thoughts on Metal and Disability.” Metal in Strange Places Conference, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. October 2016. “Belief and Publishing about Health Disparities.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference. Miami, Florida, October 2016. Co-Presenter with Jeremy Wallach, “Talking Metal: The Social Phenomenology of Hanging Out.” Presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music— US/Canada Chapters Combined Annual Meeting. Calgary, Alberta. May 2016. “The Horror and the Allure: Heavy Metal, Gothic Fiction, and Multisubjectivity.” The Legions of Steel Metal Festival and Conference. Berkeley, California, October 2015. Co-Presenter with Jeremy Wallach, “Re-Coloring the Metal Map: Metal and Race in Global Perspective.” Modern Heavy Metal Conference. Helsinki, Finland, June 2015. “Different Understandings of Personal Agency and Technological Limitations in the Fields of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.” Society for Ethnomusicology 58th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis. November 2013. “Closing Remarks: The Importance of Cause and Effect.” BGSU Heavy Metal and Popular Culture International Conference. Bowling Green, Ohio, April 2013. Co-presenter with