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 Jeremy Wallach. “Losing the House: Reflections on Narrative, Memory, and the Future of Popular Culture at BGSU.” The Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture, BGSU. February 2013.
“Technological Change and Heavy Metal Moral Panics.” Invited presentation. Symposium on Heavy Metal and Globalization, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. November 2012.
“Roland as Helper in the Female Hero’s Flight: How the Brothers Grimm Presented a Feminist Wonder Tale as Anti-Feminist.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. October 2012.
Co-presenter with Jeremy Wallach, “Performance and Performativity in the Academic Conference.” “The World is a Contact Zone: Performativities in Contested Identities, Publics, Epistemologies, and Popular Culture.” Performance Studies Conference. Invited Keynote Address. BGSU, April 2012.
“How to Train Your Dragon to Be a Fairy Tale Character: Poetics and Parallelisms in a Modern Blockbuster.” BGSU Popular Culture Colloquium. December 2011.
“The Gothic Menace, Then and Now: Gothic Literature, Heavy Metal Music, and Moral Panics.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference. Bloomington, Indiana. October 2011.
“Which English? Working with Multiple Englishes in the EFL Classroom.” Invited Presentation, 3rd CELT Seminar on Multiculturalism and Multilingualism: Issues of Cultural Diversity in the Teaching of Language and Literature. Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang, Indonesia. January 2011.
“The Donor Figure in Fantasy Literature and Wonder Tales,” Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Detroit, Michigan. October 2009.
“Proppian Character Roles in Elite and Popular Literature and Wonder Tales,” American Folklore Society Conference. Boise, Idaho. October 2009.
“Interdisciplinary Collaborations, or How a Popular Culture Scholar Got Published in a Medical Journal.” BGSU Popular Culture Colloquium Series. September 2009.
“The Quilt Store as a Site for the Negotiation and Maintenance of Local Aesthetics,” Western States Folklore Society Conference. Los Angeles, California. April 2009.
“Crossing the Fairy Tale Threshold: Rites of Passage in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” BGSU Ritual Studies Conference. September 2008.
“Proverbs in J.R.R. Tolkien,” BGSU Popular Culture Colloquium Series. December 2007.
“Folktales in the ESL Classroom,” American Folklore Society Conference, Quebec City, Canada. October 2007.
“Proverbial Play: Proverbs in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings,” Western States Folklore Society Conference. UCLA, California. April 2007.
“Utilizing Folktales in the ESL classroom.” WVTESOL (West Virginia Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference. Charles Town, West Virginia. April 2006.
“Þór in Drag in Þrymskviða: The Intersection of Humor and the Sacred in Old Norse Myth” American Folklore Society Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 1996.
SCHOLARLY PANEL PARTICIPATION
Co-Presenter with Jeremy Wallach, “Folklore and Popular Culture.” Panel discussion, Future of Folklore Conference. Indiana University, Bloomington, May 2017.
“Noise Breeding Silence: Heavy Metal Voices, Heard and Unheard.” Invited Panel Discussion, Experience Music Project Pop Conference. Seattle, Washington. March 2016.
“Heavy Metal and Community.” BGSU Heavy Metal and Popular Culture International Conference. April 2013.
Invited Discussant. Panel: “When Societies Collide: Societal Adaptations and Changes Under Colonialism.” “Borders, Boundaries, and Beyond,” International Graduate Historical Studies Conference. Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. April 2012.
“The Gothic Menace, Then and Now: Gothic Literature, Heavy Metal Music, and Moral Panics.” “Metal Studies Rising” Panel, joint IASPM-US and EMP Conference. New York, New York. March 2012.
“Hobbit Metal? Images of Middle Earth in Rock Music.” Panel: “Imagining Utopian and Dys- topian Landscapes in Late Twentieth Century Popular Music.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Canada. Montreal. June 2011.
“Thor’s Musical Hammer: Viking Imagery in Amon Amarth’s Heavy Metal Music.” Panel: “White Power and Power Chords: Debating Hate in Heavy Metal Music.” (Organizer and Chair). Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, BGSU. April 2011.
“In the Ear of the Beholder: Aesthetics and Musical Taste.” Panel: “Toward an Aesthetic Analysis in Global Popular Musics.” Society for Ethnomusicology 55th Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California. November 2010.
“Rethinking Folk, Popular, and Elite Culture: The Legacy of Ray Browne.” Panel discussion (organizer and chair). American Folklore Society Conference. Nashville, Tennessee. October 2010 (Delivered by Dr. Marilyn Motz).
Faculty Discussant, “Appreciating Both the Depth and the Breadth of a South Indian Epic” by Brenda Beck. Asian Popular Culture Symposium. BGSU. April 2010.
Panelist, “The Future of Ritual Studies.” BGSU Ritual Studies Conference. September 2008.
Panelist, “Ritual Studies.” BGSU Ritual, Holiday and Festival Studies Conference. September 2007.
Panelist, “The Pleasures and Perils of Indexing.” American Folklore Society Conference. Anchorage, Alaska. October 2001.
SELECTED CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
25th Annual International Seminar, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies. Venice, Italy. January 2019.
Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 2012.
“The Impact of Music in Shaping Southeast Asian Societies,” First International Conference of the PhD in Music Program of the University of the Philippines College of Music. Manila, the Philippines. September 2011.
“And the Beat Goes On: Popular Music in Southeast Asia in the 20th Century.” Workshop sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Jakarta, Indonesia. January 2011.
Heavy Metal and Gender. Cologne University for Music and Dance. Cologne, Germany. Oct 2009.
Harvard Folklore Symposium. Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 2008, 2007.
2006 Mid-Atlantic Folklorists Retreat. Lewes, Delaware. June 2006.
Indiana University Myth Symposium. Bloomington, Indiana. March 2001.
ACADEMIC GRANT WRITING
National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Division. 2014 NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers on “Popular Culture, Diversity, and Difference.” (Not funded).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Division. “Tales Online,” 2001. (Funded).
Threshold Grant to continue work on my Division III (senior thesis at Hampshire College) “Demon or Trickster: Satan in the Old English Genesis,” 1994. (Funded).
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Co-editor, BGSU Department of Popular Culture Newsletter. January 2010-present.
Book Review Co-editor, Folklore Forum. August 1996-May 1997.
Editorial Staff Member, Folklore Forum. August 1995-May 1996.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Popular Culture Scholars Association Champion Award. February 15, 2019.
Invited by two different students to attend the BGSU 44th Annual Honors and Awards Reception as a “Favorite Faculty Member.” Spring 2012.
Passed MA exam (folklore, Indiana University) with distinction. Spring 1997.
Threshold Grant from Hampshire College to continue work on my Division III (senior thesis). Spring 1994.
TEACHING
THESIS AND DISSERTATION STUDENTS
MEMBERSHIP ON DISSERTATION COMMITTEES (Ph.D.)
Completed:
Tiffany Knoell (ACS), “‘So You Want to Be a Retronaut’: History and Temporal Tourism,” spring 2020.
Philip J. Clements (ACS), “Dungeons & Discourse: Intersectional Identities in Dungeons & Dragons,” fall 2019.
Catherine Shufelt (ACS), “‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’: Constructing the Witch in Contemporary American Popular Culture Representation,” fall 2007.
In Progress:
Courtney Bliss (ACS), Topic: The Appeal of the Musical Hamilton, expected spring 2021.
Leda Hayes (ACS), Topic: Ethnography of Seattle’s Living Computer Museum, expected spring 2021.
CHAIR OF THESIS COMMITTEES (M.A.) (Note: Names marked with an asterisk [*] are cases where, because of University regulations, I was, with the agreement of the other committee members, the acting chair rather than the official chair.)
Completed:
*Martin Muthee (POPC), “An Echo to a People’s Culture: Ken Walibora’s Kidaga Kimemwozea as a Representation of the Kenyan Socio-Political Environment.” Summer 2017.
*Philip J. Clements (POPC), “Role to Save versus Prejudice: Race in Dungeons and Dragons.” Fall 2015. Winner, 2016 O’Neill-Stoddard MA Thesis Prize. Nominee, BGSU Graduate College 2016 Distinguished Thesis Award.
*Jeena Kim (POPC), “Tea Parties, Fairy Dust and Cultural Memory: the Maintenance and Develop -ment of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan Over Time.” Summer 2014. Winner, 2011 O’Neill- Stoddard MA Thesis Prize. Nominee, BGSU Graduate College 2011 Distinguished Thesis Award.
*Brian Keilen (POPC), “Echoes of Invasion: Cultural Anxieties and Video Games.” Summer 2012.
*Christopher Ryan (POPC), “Hunks of Meat: Homocidal Homosociality and Hyperheteronormativity in Cannibal Horror.” Summer 2012.
Rebecca Testerman (American Culture Studies), “Desegregating the Future: Black Participation in Convention-Based Science Fiction Fandom,.” Spring 2012. Nominee, BGSU Graduate College 2012 Distinguished Thesis Award.
Lauren (Aaron) Burnell (American Culture Studies), “The Company I Keep: Introducing White Trash and Supernatural.” Summer 2011.
*Tim Bavlnka (POPC), “Superheroes and Shamanism: Magic and Participation in the Comics of Grant Morrison.” Spring 2011.
*Brandi Venable (POPC), “Feed Me! Insatiable Children and the Monsters Who Want to Devour Them: Consumption in Clive Barker’s The Thief of Always and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.” Spring 2011. Winner, 2011 O’Neill-Stoddard MA Thesis Prize. Nominee, BGSU Graduate College 2011 Distinguished Thesis Award.
Sean Watkins (POPC), “Emerald Lens: Media Literacy.” Summer 2009.
April Boggs (POPC), “Heroes and Masculinity in Supernatural.” Spring 2009.
Briel Naugle (ACS), “Nobody Does it Better: How Cecily Von Ziegesar’s Controversial Novel Series ‘Gossip Girl’ Spawned the Popular Genre of Teen Chick-Lit.” Spring 2008.
Benjamin Hedge Olson (POPC), “I Am the Black Wizards: Multiplicity, Mysticism and Identity in Black Metal Music and Culture.” Spring 2008. Nominee, BGSU Graduate College 2008 Distinguished Thesis Award.
Justin Philpot (POPC), “Reevaluating Subculture: Pro-Life Youth and the Rhetoric of Resistance.” Summer 2008.
MEMBERSHIP ON M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES
Writing prospectuses:
Devin Elliott (POPC). Topic: Cryptids and West Virginia Tourism.
Tristan Leighton (POPC). Topic: Class Ambiguity and Heavy Metal Fandom.
In progress:
Alexander Fisher (POPC). Topic: The Influence of hardware on video game play.
Katelyn Balkum (POPC). Topic: Representations of learning disabilities in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series.
Ryan Monk (POPC). Topic: Film and gender.
Marly Katherine Stuever-Williford (POPC). Topic: Gender and Witch Culture.
Completed:
Joshua Ryan Smith (POPC). “Dick Grayson: Relatability, Catharsis, and the Positive Development of a Superhero.” Fall 2020.
Anna DeGalan (POPC). “Crescendos of the Caped Crusaders: An Evolutionary Study of Soundtracks from DC Comics’ Superheroes.” Fall 2020.
Eric Sobel (POPC), “Masters of the Universe: Action Figures, Customization and Masculinity.” Fall 2018.
Robin Hershkowitz (POPC), “Popular Memoirs of Women Held Captive.” Summer 2018.
Katelen Brown (POPC), “‘Local Band Does O.K.’: A Case Study of Class and Scene Politics in the Jam Scene of Northwest Ohio.” Summer 2018.
Nicholas Clark (ACS), “Darwin’s Daikaiju: Representations of Dinosaurs in 20th Century Cinema.” Summer 2018.
Jason Maageria (POPC), “Hollywood Made in Kenya: Domesticating or Appropriating?” Spring 2018.
Wonseok Lee (POPC), “Diversity of K-Pop: A Focus on Race, Language and Musical Genre.” Spring 2018.
Joyce Okango (POPC), “‘Fair and Lovely:’ The Concept of Skin Bleaching and Body Image Politics in Kenya.” Summer 2017.
Leda Hayes (ACS), “The Lost Boy.” Summer 2017.
Amira Hassnaoui (POPC), “Stambeli Awakening: Cultural Revival and Musical Amalgamation in Post-Revolution Tunisia.” Spring 2017. Winner, 2018 O’Neill-Stoddard MA Thesis Prize. Nominee, BGSU Graduate College 2018 Distinguished Thesis Award.
Yu Zheng (POPC), “The Screaming Successor: Exploring the Chinese Metal Scene in Contemporary Chinese Society (1996 – 2015).” Fall 2016.
Olivia Roig (POPC), “Green Day: Rock Music and Class.” Spring 2016.
James Beale (POPC), “‘The Strong, Silent Type’: Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and the Construction of the White Male Antihero in Contemporary Television Drama.” Spring 2014.
William Timothy Jones (POPC), “Paper Tower: Aesthetics, Taste and the Mind-Body Problem in American Independent Comics.” Spring 2014. Anthony Thibodeau (POPC), “Anti-Colonial Resistance and Indigenous Identity in North American Heavy Metal.” Spring 2014.
Seth Brodbeck (POPC), “Gender-Blind and Gender-Bound: Young Adult Comics and the Postfeminist Protagonist.” Summer 2013.
Menghan (Mona) Liu (POPC), “Rephrasing Mainstream and Alternatives: An Ideological Analysis of the Birth of Chinese Indie Music.” Summer 2012.
Mackenzie Ryan (POPC), “An Analysis of National Football League Fandom and Its Promotion of Conservative Cultural Ideals about Race, Religion, and Gender.” Summer 2012.
Travis Limbert (POPC), “Magic: The Gathering, Community, and Communitas.” Summer 2012.
Matt Dauphin (English), “No Good Utopia: Desiring Ambiguity in The Dispossessed.” Spring 2011.
Stephanie Jackson (Ethnomusicology, College of Musical Arts), “Beyond Kitsch: A.R. Rahman and the Global Routes of Indian Popular Music.” Summer 2010.
Katie Barak (POPC), “Emerald Lens: Teaching Media Literacy.” Summer 2009.
Brian Blitz (POPC), “Blood, Birth, Imagination: Ethnic Nationalism and South Korean Popular Culture.” Summer 2009.
Ora McWilliams (POPC), “‘Hey Batman, What Are Your Parents Getting You for Christmas?’ The Orphan Narrative and Non-Traditional Families in American Superhero Publications.” Summer 2009.
Sarah Lafferty (POPC), “Holding Out for a Female Hero: The Visual and Narrative Representation of the Female FBI Agent in Hollywood Psychological Thrillers from 1991-2008.” Spring 2009.
Benjamin Phillips (POPC), “A Community in a Cow Pasture: Football at Penn State.” Spring 2009.
Stephanie Plummer (POPC), “Food Contamination Narratives in United States News Media.” Spring 2009.
Julie Rowse (POPC), “Trouble Right Here in Digital City: Censorship of Online Student Speech.” Spring 2008.
Arisa Shibagaki (POPC), “The Barbie Phenomenon in Japan.” Summer 2007.
MEMBERSHIP ON B.A. HONORS THESIS COMMITTEES:
Elaina Thompson, fairy tale-inspired fiction. Spring 2014.
Sophie Taylor, “Punk and Carnival.” Spring 2007.
COURSES TAUGHT
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
ACS 2200, Cultural Pluralism in the United States. Fall 2011.
ETHN 3800, Black Noise. Fall 2015.
POPC 1600, Introduction to Popular Culture. (Summer 2016, online).
POPC 2200, Introduction to Folklore (1 or 2 sections per semester. Fall 2006 – present [excluding fall 2011]). Face-to-face and online
*POPC 2300, Detective Fiction. Fall 2009.
POPC 2600, Popular Culture Research. Spring 2012.
*POPC 2700, Animals in Popular Literature. Fall 2013.
POPC 3000, Global Popular Culture. Spring 2007.
POPC 3200, Folktale and Legend. Fall 2012, 2010.
POPC 3210, Folklife and Material Culture. Fall 2018, fall 2007.
*POPC 4240, Trickster and Hero. Spring 2018.
*POPC 4240, The Hero of Folklore. Fall 2008.
*POPC 4240, The Fairy Tale. Fall 2006.
*POPC 4600, Foundations of Social Theory. Spring 2011.
*POPC 4650, Trickster and Hero. Spring 2018.
POPC 4800, Senior Seminar (for POPC majors). Fall 2010.
POPC 6600, Folklore Theory and Methodology (graduate course). Spring 2008, 2007.
POPC 6750, Popular Culture Theory and Method (6-credit graduate course). Fall 2010;
______. co-taught with Jeremy Wallach. Fall 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014.
*POPC 6800, Heroes and Villains (graduate seminar). Spring 2019, 2014, 2012, 2010.
* Denotes new class designed by me.
INDEPENDENT STUDIES
MUSC 7860 Folklore and Folk Music (Zachary Nice). Spring 2017.
POPC 6990 Intensive Background in Social Theories (Leda Lohman). Fall 2016.
POPC 6990 Scrapbooking: Folklore and Aesthetics (Trinidad Linares). Spring 2016.
POPC 6990 African Proverbs (Martin Luthee). Fall 2015.
POPC 6990 Folkloristics and Narrative Theory (Jeena Kim). Fall 2013.
POPC 490 Folklore hero (Daniel Ewald). Fall 2008.
POPC 490 World Mythology (Meredith Burge). Spring 2008.
POPC 490 Northwest Ohio Folklife (Charles Dorn). Fall 2007.
POPC 490 Proverbs in Popular Literature (Carly Pasenow). Spring 2006.
POPC 490 The Fairy Tale (Bill Stover). Spring 2006.
COURSES AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
FOLKLORE
F101, Introduction to Folklore (1999 – 2001). Indiana University Distance Education class, broadcast to sites around the Northeast and Midwest.
F131, Folklore in the United States (spring 2001, fall 1998). Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES
GE 100, Origins (fall 2005, 2004: team-taught course about the origins of the universe, humans and other animals, human consciousness, language and symbols, and society). West Virginia State University, HBU in Institute, WV.
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (LEAP, Learn English for Academic Purposes, Marshall University, Huntington, WV).
TOEFL Preparation. Summer 2006.
Advanced Writing. Summer 2006, spring 2006.
Beginning Grammar Workshop. Summer 2006.
Beginning Vocabulary. Summer 2006.
Advanced Reading. Spring 2006, fall 2005.
Advanced Grammar Workshop. Fall 2005.
Advanced Vocabulary . Fall 2005. . Intermediate Grammar. Fall 2005.
Advanced Oral Communications. Fall 2004.
COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE COURSES
Basic English III (6 credit reading and writing review course, spring 2003, fall 2002. Hudson County Community College).
English 101 (spring 2003, fall 2002. Hudson County Community College).
Composition II, Writing about Literature (fall 2002, Bergen County Community College).
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
BGSU COURSES DEVELOPED
POPC 4240, Trickster and Hero (spring 2018).
POPC 2300, Detective Fiction (fall 2009).
POPC 2700, Animals in Popular Literature (fall 2013).
POPC 424, The Hero of Folklore (fall 2008).
POPC 424, The Fairy Tale (fall 2006).
POPC 4600, Foundations of Social Theory (team-taught, team-developed, spring 2011).
POPC 6800, Heroes and Villains (spring 2010).
GUEST LECTURES (at BGSU unless otherwise specified)
“World Heavy Metal.” MUCT 1250, World Music, Katherine Meizel, professor. April 2019, March 2018 (co-presented with Jeremy Wallach).
“Structuralism: Lévi-Strauss, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner.” ACS 7600, Theory and Method in American Culture Studies. Jeremy Wallach, professor. Feb 2016.
“Karl Marx vs. Max Weber.” ACS 7500, Key Debates in Social Theory. J Wallach, professor. Feb 2013, March 2012. “Structural Anthropology.” Advanced doctoral seminar in ethnomusicology, School of Music, University of the Philippines. José Buenconsejo, professor. Sept 2011.
“Structure and Narrative.” POPC 6650, Folklore and Theory. Montana Miller, professor. Feb 2018.
“Folklore and Popular Culture: The Worldview Connection.” POPC 6750, Popular Culture Theory and Methods. Jeremy Wallach, professor. Fall 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008.
“Bakhtin and Worldview.” POPC 6750, Theory and Methods. J. Wallach, professor. Fall 2011.
“World Heavy Metal and Warrior Archetypes.” MUCT 1250, World Music. Morgan Stiegler, instructor. Fall 2011.
“Asian Worldviews and Aesthetics.” ASIA 4800, Asian Studies Senior Seminar. Kristen Rudisill, professor. Fall 2011.
“Ethnomusicology and Folklore: A Brief History of Intertwined Disciplines.” MUCT 6270, Seminar in the History and Literature of Ethnomusicology. K. Meizel, professor. Fall 2012, 2011.
“How People’s Myths about Dragons Influenced Their Perceptions of Dinosaurs.” POPC 4600, The Dinosaur and Popular Culture. J. Wallach, professor. Spring 2010.
“Cultural Construction of Time: The Relationship Between Physics, Biology and World- View.” POPC 4600, Dinosaur and Popular Culture. J. Wallach, professor. Spring 2010.
“Tale Typology.” POPC 6600, Folklore Methods. M. Miller, professor. Spring 2017, 2016, 2012, 2010.
“Quilters and Quilting.” POPC 6600. M. Miller, professor. Spring 2010.
“The Long Nineteenth Century.” POPC 6800, Popular Music in America. Jeremy Wallach, professor. Summer 2009.
“Mythology and Folktales as Vehicles for Religious Belief.” POPC 4600, Religion and Popular Culture. Kristen Rudisill, professor. Spring 2009.
“Medical Worldview and Skepticism toward Chronic Illnesses.” POPC 4240, Health and Illness. M. Miller, professor. Spring 2009.
“Fairy Tales, Structuralism and Predicting the End of the Series.” POPC 4240, Reading Harry Potter. Ray Schuck, instructor. Spring 2007.
SERVICE
ACADEMIC
DEPARTMENT
Member of group designing online Popular Culture MAS degree. Fall 2015 – present.
Graduate Student Admissions Committee. Spring 2017, 2016, 2007.
Graded folklore question, Popular Culture MA Comprehensive Exam. Fall 2015.
Departmental Newsletter Co-Editor. Spring 2010-present.
Moderator, “Horror.” The Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture. March 18, 2017.
Moderator, “Evolution of Genres.” The Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture. Feb 10, 2013.
Moderator, “Sci-Fi, Science and Politics” and “21st Century Textual Analyses.” Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century: The Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture. March 31, 2012.
Overall Grader for Popular Culture MA Comprehensive Exam. Fall 2016, fall 2008.
Graded Theory and Method question, Popular Culture MA Comprehensive Exam. Fall 2015.
Moderator, “Anatomies of Excess: Age, Height, Weight.” Battleground States Conference 2008: The Body and Culture. February 22.
Member of committee to update Popular Culture MA Comprehensive Exam reading list. Fall 2007- spring 2010.
Wrote and graded folklore question, Popular Culture MA Comprehensive Exam. Fall 2007.
Moderator, “I Don’t Want to Grow Up: Contesting Perspectives of Age.” Battleground States Conference 2007: Intersection of Poetics and Politics. March 31.
Proctored Popular Culture MA Exam. Fall 2006.
UNIVERSITY
Member, Asian Studies Advisory Board. 2015 – present.
Faculty sponsor, Popular Culture Scholars’ Association, student organization. Spring 2013, 2012.
Faculty member, Cross-Cultural Music Club, student organization. Spring 2010 – fall 2011.
Member, Ethnomusicology-Musicology Graduate Student Discussion Group (EMU). Fall 2011 – spring 2012, spring 2010.
Represented POPC faculty at Graduation. Spring 2011, summer 2010, 2009, 2008, fall 2006.
Substitute at University Curriculum Development Committee meeting. Spring 2008.
Substitute Faculty Senate Representative. September and October, 2006.
Member, Broadcasting Committee. Fall 2006-fall 2007.
PROFESSIONAL
Invited Presenter, Faculty Library Research Workshop. BGSU, 2018.
Co-organizer, Faculty Library Research Workshop. BGSU, 2017.
Invited Presenter, ORIAS Workshop. University of California—Berkeley, 2016.
Invited Presenter, Faculty Library Research Workshop. BGSU, 2016.
Manuscript Reviewer for The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. February 2013.
Manuscript Reviewer, New Directions in Folklore Special Issue on Quilting. Spring 2011.
Analyst Supervisor for Tales Online. January 2000-December 2002.
Senior Indexer for Tales Online. February 1998-January 2000.
COMMUNITY
OFFICES HELD
Board Member, Literacy Volunteers of Putnam County (West Virginia). Spring 2005- 2010.
Chair, Finance Committee, Literacy Volunteers of Putnam County (West Virginia). Summer 2005-summer 2006.
COMMUNITY GRANT WRITING
Prepared four grant proposals, Literacy Volunteers of Putnam County, 2005. All were funded.
Prepared application for Literacy Volunteers of Putnam County to be recognized by the IRS as a 501-(c)-3 organization (non-profit). Application was accepted without request for amendment. March 2004.
COMMUNITY SERVICE CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
Two-day United Way Grant Writing Workshop. Summer 2005.
Two-day conference for Tales Online in which we talked to middle and high school teachers about what they wanted in a folklore database. February 2001. RESEARCH INTERESTS
FOLKLORE Comparative folk narrative, folklore and literature, proverbs, folklore and popular culture, Medieval folklore, Asian folklore, mythology and mythography, aesthetics, folk crafts (particularly quilting and needlepoint), folkloristics, ethnomusicology, folk belief, folklore and education, tale type and motif indices, tradition and cultural change, disciplinary history of folklore, the hero, tricksters, monsters.
LITERATURE Medieval literature, Arthurian literature, 18th and 19th century British literature, science fiction and fantasy, detective fiction, children’s and young adult literature.
INTERDISCIPLINARY Popular culture theory and methods, social theory, science and the arts, science and religion, worldview, comparative mythology, heavy metal studies, and the history of ideas.
Revised January 2021