Gregory A. Schrempp Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University, Bloomington [email protected] Home: (812) 333-1360 EDUCATION 1987 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago. Dissertation: "Maori Cosmogonic Thought" (dissertation director, Marshall Sahlins) 1978 M.A. Anthropology, University of Chicago. Thesis: "The Tylorian Appropriation of Müller and the Müllerian Appropriation of Darwin" (thesis director, George Stocking) 1975 M.A., Folklore, Indiana University (Bloomington) 1972 B.A., Anthropology, Washington State University (graduated “With Highest Honors” and Phi Beta Kappa) TEACHING POSITIONS 2014 - present Professor, Indiana University 2012 – present Affiliated faculty member of IU Ancient Studies Program 1995 - 2013 Associate Professor, Indiana University 1991 - present Joined IU Honors Division for three-year term (1991-94); since then have taught Honors courses periodically (most recently Spring 2013) 1989 - 95 Assistant Professor, Folklore Institute, Indiana University 1985 - 89 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Wesleyan University, Connecticut 1 ADMINSTRATIVE POSITIONS 1995 – 1997 Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Folklore & Ethnomusicology 1998 - 2009 Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Folklore & Ethnomusicology 1999 – 2017 Co-Director, then Director, Mythology Studies Interdisciplinary Minor Program, IU GRANTS AND AWARDS Research 2017 Indiana University CAHI travel grant ($5,000) for research in New Zealand 2016 Indiana University New Frontiers Experimentation Grant ($13,000) for project “Science the Second Time Around – Phase 2” 2015 Indiana University New Frontiers Experimentation Grant ($13,000) for project “Science the Second Time Around” 2011 Indiana University Office of the Vice Provost for Research Grant-in-Aid ($2,500) 2011 Indiana University Overseas Conference Grant award ($800) 1998 IU Ventures grant proposal for conference "A Symposium on Myth" ($2,100) 1993 Magical Arrows awarded Honorary Mention, Chicago Folklore Prize. 1992 Indiana University International Travel Grant, $600 Teaching 2012-13 IU Trustees Teaching Award ($2,500) 1997 IU Teaching Excellence Recognition Award ($1,250) 1993 Grant for development of IU Topics Course ("What is Myth?") $1,500 1991-94 Three Indiana University course development grants ($3,500 each) to develop Honors Division courses 2 Service 2009 Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology Distinguished Service Faculty Award ($1,000) PUBLICATIONS Books (refereed) 2014 Science, Bread, and Circuses: Folkloristic Essays on Science for the Masses. Utah State/University Press of Colorado 2012 The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular ScienceWriting. McGill-Queens University Press. 1992 Magical Arrows: the Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe. University of Wisconsin Press. Booklet (invited, editorially reviewed) 2016. The Science of Myths and Vice Versa. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press (a series of booklets on current anthropological topics, marketed by University of Chicago Press). Co-authored Book in Press The Truth of Myth, with Tok Thompson. Oxford University Press. Core book for projected series on world mythology. Edited Books (refereed) 2002 Myth: A New Symposium, ed. with Wm Hansen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (sole author of "Introduction," pp. 1-15) 3 (commissioned) 1984 with Robert Mahuta and Isla Nottingham, A Whaikoorero Reader: Comparative Perspectives for the Study of Whaikoorero and Other Traditional Maori Speech Forms. Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato Press. (textbook on traditional oratory designed specifically for Maori advanced undergraduate and graduate students) Book Chapters (refereed) In press. “Kantian Categories and the Relativist Turn,” in ed. Mario Schmidt et. al., The Social Origins of Thought. Berghan. In press. “Is Modern Mythology Ancient?” Yearbook of Comparative Literature. University of Toronto Press. 2015 “Science and the Monsterological Imagination: Folkloristic Musings on David Toomey’s Weird Life,” in eds. Michael Foster and Jeff Tolbert, The Folkloresque. Utah State/University Press of Colorado. 2014 “Don’t Yell Fire: the Dawn of Humanity Goes to the Movies,” in ed. Martin Holbraad and Allen Abramson, Cosmologies: Making Contemporary Worlds. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2002 "David Bidney and the People of Truth" in eds. Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen, Myth: A New Symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 46-57. 1990 "Antinomy and Cosmology: Kant Among the Maori," in ed. Frank Reynolds and David Tracy, Myth and Philosophy. SUNY Press, pp. 151-180. 1989 "Aristotle's Other Self: on the Boundless Subject of Anthropological Discourse," in ed. George W. Stocking, Jr. Romantic Motives (History of Anthropology, Vol. 6). University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 10-43. 1985 "Tu Alone Was Brave: Notes on Maori Cosmogony," in ed. Antony Hooper and Judith Huntsman, Transformations of Polynesian Culture. Wellington: Polynesian Society, pp. 17-37. (commissioned) 4 1998 "Distributed Power: A Theme in Native American Origin Stories," in ed. M. Bol, Stars Above Earth Below. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum, pp. 15-27. Journal Articles (refereed) In press. “Fabling Gestures in Expository Science,” Journal of Folklore Research. 2018 “The Possibility of Life,” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8:530-36. (online: haujournal.org) 2011 “Copernican Kinship: An Origin Myth for the Category,” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 1:103-39. (online: haujournal.org) 2011 “Catching Wrangham: On the Mythology and the Science of Fire, Cooking, and Becoming Human,” Journal of Folklore Research 48:109-32. 2009 “Taking the Dawkins Challenge, or The Dark Side of the Meme,” Journal of Folklore Research.46:91-100. 2007 “Canonizing Creativity: Folkloric Patterns in Motivational Speaking,” Midwestern Folklore 33:37-43. 2005 “Formulas of Conversion: Proverbial Approaches to Technological and Scientific Exposition,” Midwestern Folklore 31:5-13. 1998 "Mathematics and Traditional Cosmology: Notes on Four Encounters," Cosmos 14:211- 26. 1998 "’The Demon-Haunted World’: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium," Journal of American Folklore 111:247-56. 1996 “Folklore and Science: Inflections of 'Folk' in Cognitive Research,” Journal of Folklore Research 3:191-206. 1995 "Our Funny Universe: On Aristotle's Metaphysics, Oring's Theory of Humor, and Other Appropriate Incongruities," Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 8:219-228. 1983 "The Re-education of Friedrich Max Müller: Intellectual Appropriation and Epistemological Antinomy in Mid-Victorian Evolutionary Thought," Man (N.S.) 18: 90- 110. 5 Published as Conference Proceedings 2012 “Traditional Origin Myths and Modern Science: A Mythologist’s Response to Primack and Abrams’ The View from the Center of the Universe.” In ed. Zongfu Zhao, Kunlun shenhua yu shijie chuangjie shenhua guoji xueshu taoluntan: Lunwenji (Papers Presented at the International Conference on Kunlun Myths and World Creation Myths), pp. 227-34. Xining: Quinghai renmin chuanbanshe (Qinghai People’s Press). 1996 "Dimensions of Worldview," keynote address (pre-circulated) for International Society for Folk Narrative Research 5-year meeting (Innsbruck, Austria), July 1992. Published in conference proceedings, Folk Narrative and Worldview: Vorträge des 10. Kongresses der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Volkserzählungsforschung (P. Lang). Notes (invited) 2016 “Xenophanes Unbound.” Invited contribution to forum “Voicing the Ancestors: Readings in Memory of George Stocking,” ed. Richard Handler, in Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6:3, 381-83. 2012 “Mythology and Science; or, What Do We Want From Popular Science.” Invited contribution to Huffington Post [Science section, Oct 2012] (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-schrempp/myths-and-science_b_1949316.html) 2009 with Moira Smith, “An Editorial Conundrum,” Journal of Folklore Research 46:1-2. 1998 “Two Distances, Two Terms,” in “Perspectives” section of Folklore Forum 29:76-78. 1989 "Making/Breaking: Notes on Writing Culture," in "Research and Methodology Notes" of Journal of Folklore Research 26:229-35. 1988 "Comparative Studies and the Scholarly Conscience," in "Open Forum" of Folklore Forum 21:225-29. Major Encyclopedia Entries 2012 with Daniel Peretti, “Weltzeitmythen” entry for Enzyklopädie des Märchens (Gottingen) 6 2009 “Totemismus” entry for Enzyklopädie des Märchens (Göttingen) 2005 with Hasan El-Shamy, "Union of Opposites" entry for Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook (eds. Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy) 1997 "Comparative Mythology" entry for Encyclopedia of Folklore (ed. Thomas Green) 1996 "Maori" entry for Enzyklopädie des Märchens (Göttingen) 1996 "Mythology" entry (10 pages typeset) for Book of Knowledge encyclopedia (Grolier); also supplied original sketches and suggestions that publisher drew upon for the artwork. Work under Review “Mythology Begins With Science,” invited chapter in proposed handbook on emerging technologies, sponsored by the EU egalitarianism project centered at University of Bergen, Norway. “Mythic Digressions in Science,” invited contribution to book organized by the “Digressions Project” of University of Aarhus, Denmark. Book Reviews 2006 Sandra Dolby, Self-Help Books (Journal of Folklore Research) 2005 Anna-Leena & Jukka Siikala, Return to Culture (Fabula) 2003 Andrew Von Hendy, The Modern Construction of Myth (Western Folklore) 2002 Candace Slater, Entangled Edens