Educational History

2012 Ph.D., Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University; Minor in Gender Studies

2007 M.A., Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University

2004 B.A. (Interdisciplinary Studies, emphasis on Narrative Folklore), University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation Title: Gender and the Body in Classical European Fairy Tales

Work Experience

2018-24 Lecturer, Butler University (First Year Seminar; Global Women: Rights & Resistance; Modern Middle East & North Africa; Sex Education & Cultural Conflict; Disability & Culture; and Women, Gender, and Folklore; The Body and Society)

Spring 2018 Instructor, Indiana University, Folklore Department (F101, Introduction to Folklore); Instructor, Butler University (The Body and Society)

Fall 2017 Instructor, Butler University (designed and taught Gender and Sexuality in Fairy Tales and Global Women: Rights and Resistance)

Spring 2017 Visiting Instructor, University of California, Berkeley (teaching Anthropology 160, The Forms of Folklore, and Anthropology 162, an upper-division elective on women, gender, and folklore; includes managing GSIs or Graduate Student Instructors)

2013-2016 Instructor, Butler University (designed and taught the following classes: Folklore of the Midwest; Written Out of Wedlock; Dark Desires in Fairy-Tale Fiction; Dance, Gender, and the Body; Body Art; Sex Education Across Cultures; the Body and Society)

2012-13 Instructor, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Anthropology Department (F101, Introduction to Folklore, Fall Semester; F360, Indiana Folklore, Spring Semester)

2008-09 Instructor, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Anthropology Department (including F363, Women’s Folklore; F364, Children’s Folklore, and F101, Introduction to Folklore)

2005-08 Assistant Instructor, Indiana University, Folklore Department (including F101, Introduction to Folklore; E103, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Selves; and F131, Introduction to Folklore in the U.S.)

Publications

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

2023 “Cinderella’s Body. a Quantitative Approach to Gender, Embodiment, and Folktale Plots.” Fabula 64 (1-2): 31–43.

2021 “Theorizing from the Margins.” Journal of Folklore Research 58 (3): 99-117.

2021 “A Tale of Two Trans Men: Transmasculine Identities and Trauma in Two Fairy-Tale Retellings.” Open Cultural Studies 5 (1): 181-193.

2021 “The Thorns of Trauma: Torture, Aftermath, and Healing in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Literature.” Humanities 10 (47). (available open access here)

2019  “Changelings with a Caffeine Addiction: How Urban Fantasy Adapts Folklore.” Gramarye: The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction 15: 49-56.

2019 “The Most Beautiful of All: A Quantitative Approach to Fairy-Tale Femininity.” Journal of American Folklore 132 (523): 36-60.

2018 “Masculinity and Men’s Bodies in Fairy Tales: Youth, Violence, and Transformation.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 32 (2). (Detroit: Wayne State University Press). 338-361.

2014 “Quantifying the Grimm Corpus: Transgressive and Transformative Bodies in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 28 (1). (Detroit: Wayne State University Press). 127-141.

2013 “The Black and the White Bride: Dualism, Gender, and Bodies in European Fairy Tales.” In The Journal of History and Cultures (JHAC) 3: 49-71 (available for free on the JHAC site).

2013 “Computational Analysis of Gender and the Body in European Fairy Tales,” co-authored with Scott Weingart, Literary and Linguistic Computing 28 (3): 404-416. (abstract here)

2013 “Embodiment, Representation, and Perception in Fairy-Tale Scholarship: Connecting the Written Body and the Writing Body.” In VanaVaraVedaja 8, eds. Kaisa Kulasalu, Lona Päll, and Kaija Rumm. Tartu: Tartu Nefa Rühm. 184-201.

2012 “Sorting Out Donkey Skin (ATU 510B): Toward an Integrative Literal-Symbolic Analysis of Fairy Tales. Cultural Analysis 11 (University of California): 91-120.  (available for free on the CA site)

2012 “Dancing the Numinous: Sacred and Spiritual Techniques of Contemporary American Belly Dancers.” Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 6 (2). (Tartu: Estonian Literary Museum, National Museum, University of Tartu). 3-28. (available for free on the JEF site)

2010 “Political and Theoretical Feminisms in American Folkloristics: Definition Debates, Publication Histories, and the Folklore Feminists Communication.” The Folklore Historian 27. (Terre Haute; Indiana State University Press). 43-73. (click here for PDF)

2008 “Innocent Initiations: Female Agency in Eroticized Fairy Tales.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 22 (1). (Detroit: Wayne State University Press). 27-37.

2007 “A Wave of the Magic Wand: Fairy Godmothers in Contemporary American Media.” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 21 (2). (Detroit: Wayne State University Press). 216-227.

2006 “’Whether it’s coins, fringe, or just stuff that’s sparkly’: Aesthetics and Utility in a Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Troupe’s Costumes.” Midwestern Folklore 32 (1/2). (Terre Haute: Indiana State University Press). 83-97.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2022 “’To Grow, We All Need to Suffer’: Memory and Trauma as the Path to Personhood,” coauthored with Keegan L. Mills. In Re-Entering the Dollhouse: Essays on the Joss Whedon Series eds. Heather M. Porter and Michael Starr. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 224-239.

2021 “Gender and Sexuality.” In A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age, ed. Andrew Teverson. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 69-89.

2021 “Communicating and Educating Online.” In What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies, ed. Timothy Lloyd. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 132-135.

2020 “Trickster Remakes This White House: Uncle Joe, Booby Traps, and Bawdy/Body Humor in Post-Election Prankster Biden Memes,” coauthored with Linda Lee. In Folklore and Social Media eds. Andrew Peck and Trevor Blank. Louisville, Colorado: Utah State University Press. 129-144.

2020 “Voiceless Yet Vocal: Speaking Desire in The Shape of Water.” In Resist and Persist: Essays on Social Revolution in 21st Century Narratives ed. Amanda Firestone and Leisa Clark. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. 87-97.

2019  “Gender, Sexuality, and the Fairy Tale in Contemporary North American Literature.” In The Fairy Tale World ed. Andrew Teverson, New York: Routledge. 260-272.

2018 “Representation at Digital Humanities Conferences,” coauthored with Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara and Scott Weingart. In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities ed. Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. From Debates in Digital Humanities series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 72-92.

2016 “Intertextuality, Creativity, and Sexuality: Group Exercises in the Fairy-Tale/Gender Studies Classroom.” In New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales, ed. Christa C. Jones and Claudia Schwabe. Logan: Utah State University Press. 227-240.

2016  Articles for Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translations and Texts from around the World, 2^nd edition, ed. Anne Duggan and Donald Haase with Helen Callow. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood (an imprint of ABC-CLIO). (list of topics included in 2008 citation, with addition of: Body)

2014  “Molding Messages: Analyzing the Reworking of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics and Dollhouse,” coauthored with Brittany Warman. In Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television, ed. Pauline Greenhill and Jill Rudy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 144-162.

2014  “Strategic Silences: Voiceless Heroes in Fairy Tales.” In A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy, ed. Lori M. Campbell. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. 15-34.

2014 “Modern Views of Ancient Goddesses in Tarot.” In Tarot in Culture, ed. Emily Auger. Ontario: Valleyhome Books [ebook].

2012 “Queering Kinship in ‘The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers.’” In Transgressive Tales: Queering the Brothers Grimm, eds. Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 69-89.

2011 “Monstrous Skins and Hybrid Identities in Catherynne M. Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales.” In Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings, ed. Anna Kérchy. Lewiston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press. 276-295.

2008  Articles for The Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, ed. Donald Haase. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. (topics include: Charles de Lint, Erotic Tales, Sigmund Freud, Gender, Bengt Holbek, Incest, Ellen Kushner, Hayao Miyazaki, Donna Jo Napoli, Psychological Approaches, Geza Róheim, Jane Yolen, Young Adult Fiction)

FORTHCOMING/WORKS IN PROGRESS

Under contract: “Feminist, queer, and gender theories” book chapter in the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Claudia Schwabe and Christa Jones

Under contract: “The Richest Supercrip: Disabled, Classed, and Gendered Bodies in the Fairy Tales of Mary de Morgan and G. Goldney” book chapter in the forthcoming volume Victorian Fantastic, edited by Francesca Arnavas, to be published by Wayne State University

Under review: select articles

BOOK REVIEWS

2023 Bar-Itzak, Haya, and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg. The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives. In Marvels & Tales 37.1: 116-117.

2023  Koppy, Kate. Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them. In Journal of American Folklore 136.539: 117-118.

2022 Leduc, Amanda. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space. In Marvels & Tales 36.1: 133-134.

2022 Do Rozario, Rebecca-Anne. Fashion in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: What Cinderella Wore. In Marvels & Tales 36.1: 135-136.

2021 Bacchilega, Cristina, and Jennifer Orme, eds. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. (read here for free)

2021 Schanoes, Veronica. Burning Girls and Other Stories. In Studies in the Fantastic 11: 117-119.

2020 Schacker, Jennifer. Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children’s Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime. In Marvels & Tales 34.2: 323-325.

2019 Yocom, Margaret. All Kinds of Fur: Erasure Poems & New Translation of a Tale from the Brothers Grimm. In Marvels & Tales 33.2: 348-349.

2019 Zipes, Jack. Tales of Wonder: Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. (read here for free)

2018 Craven, Allison. Fairy Tale Interrupted: Feminism, Masculinity, Wonder Cinema. In Marvels & Tales 32.2: 474-476.

2017  Bottigheimer, Ruth, Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic: From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance. In Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. (read here for free)

2017  Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Martine, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Woźniak, eds., Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. In Journal of Folklore and Education Reviews 4: 136-137.

2016 Haney, Jack, trans. and ed., Long, Long Tales of the Russian North. In Marvels & Tales 30.1: 117-119.

2014 Jones, Christine A. and Jennifer Schacker, eds., Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives and Raynard, Sophie, ed., The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers, In The Journal of American Folklore 127.506: 475-477.

2014 Zipes, Jack, The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre, in The Journal for the Fantastic In the Arts 25.1: 148-150.

2014 Bacchilega, Cristina, Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, in in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (read here for free)

2013 Propp, Vladimir, The Russian Folktale and Chandler, Robert, Russian Magic Tales: From Pushkin to Platonov, in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (read here for free)

2013 Sabry, Somaya Sami, Arab-American Women’s Writing and Performance: Orientalism, Race, and the Idea of The Arabian Nights, in Marvels & Tales 27.1 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press): 144-146.

2013 Zipes, Jack, The Enchanted Screen: A History of Fairy Tales on Film, in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (read here for free)

2012 Bottigheimer, Ruth B., Fairy Tales: A New History, in The Journal of American Folklore 125.498: 508-510.

2011 Pemberton, Marilyn. Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Moral Fairy Tales, in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (read here for free)

2010 Bobby, Susan Redington, ed., Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings, in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews (read here for free)

2009 Geller, Pamela L. and Miranda K. Stockett, eds., Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, Future and Lavender, Catherine J., Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest, double review in Western Folklore 68.4: 490-492

2009 Stone, Kay, Some Day Your Witch Will Come, in Marvels & Tales 23.2 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press): 416-418

2005 Levorato, Alessandra, Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition: A Linguistic Analysis of Old and New Storytelling, in Marvels & Tales 19:2 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press): 316-219

2005 Heilman, Elizabeth, ed., Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives, in Cultural Analysis 4 (University of California Press): 13-16

2005 Tucker, Holly, Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France, in Folklore Forum 36:1 (Indiana University)

2004 Vaz da Silva, Francisco, Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales, in Marvels & Tales 18:2 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press): 320-323

GUEST BLOG POSTS/PODCASTS/INTERVIEWS

2024 The Deep Dark Woods, “Interview: Dr. Jeana Jorgensen”

2023 Sex Education 101 is actually about folklore blog post at The Storied Imaginarium

2023 What Excites Us Podcast, episode 52 (about my new book Sex Education 101)

2023 The Digital Folklore Podcast, season 2 interview and season 1 episode 09 appearance

2023 Imaginary Worlds podcast, episode 230 – Extreme Makeover: Fairy Godmother edition

2022 The Folklore Podcast, episode 107

2022 Interview with musician Brooke Candy on V Wanna Know

2021 Chasing Foxfire (folklore podcast) interview, episode 07: “Self-Rescuing Princesses”

2021 The Kitchen Witch and the Fairy Tale at Kitchen Witch

2021 Folkwise live interview (link goes to YouTube episode)

2018 Little Red Riding Hood episode on the Roots of Lore podcast

2017 Teaching Trauma While Contingent at Conditionally Accepted at Inside Higher Education

2014 Normalized Weekend Work: It Is Basically Like Homework, Right? at Conditionally Accepted: A Place for Academics on the Margins

2013 Some Internal and External Ways of Validating the Adjunct Experience at Conditionally Accepted: A Place for Academics on the Margins

2013 Sexual Health and Relationship Education Via Life Stories (co-authored with Xaverine Bates and Lara) at Condom Monologues

2012 Understanding ‘the Body’ in Fairy Tales (co-authored with Scott Weingart) at Oxford University Press’s Blog

POETRY, FICTION, AND NON-ACADEMIC NONFICTION

See My Writing.

Conference Papers

2024 “Supercrips, Super Riches: Women, Disability, and Embodiment in Victorian-era Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2024 “Whimsical Demons: Demons and Folk Religion in Paranormal Romance Novels,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2023 “Deviant Disabilities: Deformity, Fertility, and Monsters in The Witcher,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon

2023 “Multiplying the HEA: Reverse Harem Fairy Tales, Structure, and Sexuality,” Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: (Non)Normative Identities, Forms, and Writings, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

2023  “Between Orientalism and Pleasure: Reverse Harem Romance Retellings of Aladdin and The Arabian Nights,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2022 “A Trans Cinderella?: Tradition as Resource in Transgender Fairy-Tale Retellings,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma

2022 “Gender-Making Magic: Transgender Characters in Fairy-Tale Retellings,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2021 “Loving Beasts Then Beauties: Transbiological Bisexual Heroines in Retold Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference (held virtually)

2021 “‘This Is The Way’: The Mandalorian as Fairy Tale,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (held virtually)

2020 “Speaking the Unspeakable: Folk Theories of Trauma in Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference (held virtually)

2019  “Teaching from Your Strengths,” co-presented with Kelly Zimmerman, FALCON (The 24^th Annual Facet Associate Faculty and Lecturer Conference), Indianapolis, Indiana

2019  “Theorizing from the Margins,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland

2019  “Desiring the Sea: Transforming Folk Narrative and Sexuality in The Shape of Water,” Popular Culture Association, Washington DC

2019  “The Monstrous Origins of the Incel in Frankenstein,” coauthored with B. Jude Wright, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2019 “Folk Narratives and Political Action,” (discussion panel) International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2018 “Not Happily Ever After: Sexual Assault in Fairy Tales.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York

2018 “Trans Tales and Queer Witches: Sex-Positive Images and Resources in Folklore,” Positive Sexuality Conference, Burbank, California

2018 “Hey Uncle Joe: Biden Memes, Tricksters, and Digital Folklore,” Popular Culture Association, Indianapolis, Indiana

2018 “With Eyes Both Brown and Blue: Making Monsters in Lost Girl,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2018  “Frankenstein and Folklore,” (discussion panel) International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2017  “Using Storytelling to Share Research in a Time of Mistrust,” collaborative research proposal presented with a working group at the Scholarly Communication Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

2017 “Pretty Boys and Demon Lovers: Masculinity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Fairy Tales,” Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict: A Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies, Detroit, Michigan

2017 “Hungers & Hypersexuality: Locating Sex Addiction in Fairy Tales, Novels & Overheated Uteruses” (with Lucie Fielding), American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, Las Vegas, Nevada

2017  “Waking Snow White: Denatualizing Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary American Fairy-Tale Literature,” Western States Folklore Society, Eugene, Oregon

2017 “The Myth Makes the Man: Folk Narratives in The Fall of the Kings,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2017 “Epic Fairy Tales,” (discussion panel) International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2016 “Myth-Ritual Theory and Application: The Functions of Folk Narrative in The Fall of the Kings,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Miami, Florida

2016  “Gender and Centrality, DH 2000-2016” (with Scott Weingart and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara), Keystone DH, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2016  “Once Upon a Pedagogue: Teaching with Fairy Tales,” (discussion panel) International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2015 “The Science of Sex in Lost Girl: Making the Old New Again,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2014 “Gendering Lost Girl: Transforming Fairy-Tale and Legend Intertexts in TV,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2014 “Tales of Magic, Morality, and… Monogamy?: Understanding Non-monogamous Relationships in Fairy Tales,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2013 “When Fairy Tales Learned to Count: Digital Fairy-Tale Scholarship,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island

2013 “Changelings with a Caffeine Addiction: How Urban Fantasy Adapts Folklore,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2012 “Measuring Traditionality: A Quantitative Approach to Narrative Units,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

2012 “Bodily Transgressions and Transformations in the Grimms,” The Grimm Brothers Today: Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Its Legacy 200 Years After, Lisbon, Portugal

2012 “Where the Empirical Meets the Theoretical: Merging Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Fairy Tales,” International Conference of Young Folklorists: Theoretical Frames and Empirical Research, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012 “Monstrous Masculinity in Fairy Tales,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2012 “The Role of the Organ in Western Legends and Fairy Tales,” Belief Narratives International Symposium: Local Legends in the Global Context, Imphal, India

2011 “A Quantitative Folkloristic Approach to European Fairy Tales” with Scott Weingart, American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Bloomington, Indiana

2011 “Computational Analysis of Gender and the Body in European Fairy Tales” with Scott Weingart, Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford, California

2011 “Negotiating the Body in Classical Fairy Tales,” Mediating Culture: Experience, Harmony, and Discord: The 2011 IU/OSU Folklore and Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Conference, Bloomington, Indiana

2011 “The Grotesque Body in Fairy Tales,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2011 “Cataloguing Gender and the Body in European Fairy Tales,” Interim Conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Shillong, India

2010 “Narrating Identities: Constructing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Coming-Out Stories,” Contact: The Dynamics of Power & Culture: Collaborative Conference of the Ohio State University Folklore Student Association and the Folklore & Ethnomusicology Associations at Indiana University, Columbus, Ohio

2010 “Monstrous Skins and Hybrid Identities in Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2009 “Magical Mirrors and Transformations: From Fairy Tale to Medicine, ” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Boise, Idaho

2009 “Getting Under the Skin: The Inscription of Identity in Contemporary Fairy Tales,” 15^th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Athens, Greece

2009 “Dichotomies of Kinship in ‘The Brothers Who Were Turned into Birds’,” Public & Private: Collaborative Conference of the Indiana University Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations and the Ohio State University Folklore Student Association, Bloomington, Indiana

2009 “Ancient Goddesses, Modern Cards: Changing Concepts of Female Figures in Tarot,” National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations annual conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

2009 “Recovering the Goddess in Modern Fantasy: Scholarly and Spiritual Theories of Matriarchal Prehistory,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2008 “Intertexts and Invested Traditions in American Belly Dance,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky

2008 “Body Art, Aesthetics, and Community Among Tribal Belly Dancers,” Indiana University Symposium on Dress and Adornment, Bloomington, Indiana

2008 “Dancing the Numinous: Embodying and Performing Fantasy and Mystery in Contemporary American Belly Dance,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

2007 “Ancient Goddess Worship in Modern Fantasy: Theories and Ideologies of Prehistorical Narratives,” Fantasy Matters, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2007 “Dressing Up for Daddy: Obscured Father-Daughter Incest in Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Quebec City, Canada

2007 “Postmodern Bodies,” Pushing Boundaries Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Bloomington, Indiana

2007 “Representations of Gypsiness in English-Language Fantasy Literature,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2006 “Fairy Tales and Gender: A Reception-Based Approach,” Hoosier Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Terre Haute, Indiana

2006 “Coming Out: Constructions of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Personal Narratives,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2006 “What Do Folklorists Mean When They Say Feminism?: Sifting Through Politics and Theories,” Western States Folklore Society Annual Conference, Berkeley, California

2006 “Decentering the Discipline: Applications of Feminism and Queer Theory to Folklore,” Pushing Boundaries Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Bloomington, Indiana

2006 “’For All Your Happily Ever Afters’: Fairy-Tale Pastiche and Fantasy Plots,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2005 “Innocent Initiations: Female Agency in Eroticized Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

2005 “Militant Protestants and Gun-Toting Vampires: One Anime View of Britain,” The Science Fiction Foundation Academic Track at Worldcon, Glasgow, Scotland

2005 “A Wave of the Magic Wand: Fairy Godmothers in Contemporary American Media,” 14^th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Tartu, Estonia

2005 “Constructing Identity through Legends and Superstitions: Folklore Genres in Japanese Animation,” Pushing Boundaries: Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Bloomington, Indiana

2004 “If the Interpretation Fits: Symbolic and Literal Approaches to Father-Daughter Incest Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah

2004 “From Folk Narratives to Hiccup Cures: Folklore and Identity in Anime,” Schoolgirls & Mobilesuits: Culture & Creation in Manga & Anime, Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, Minnesota

2004 “If the Skin Fits: Symbolic and Literal Approaches to Father-Daughter Incest Fairy Tales,” California Folklore Society Annual Conference, Northridge, California

2003 “Cricket’s Tale: Commercializing Folktales for Children,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Invited Lectures

2017 Folklore Roundtable Talk at UC Berkeley, “How to Get Laid in Fairy Tales: Patterns of Gendered Sexuality in European Tales of Magic” (invited by Professor Charles Briggs)

2016 Keynote speaker, the 9^th Annual OSU/IU Folklore and Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Conference: The Body in Academia, the Field, and In-Between, Columbus, Ohio (invited by conference organizers Brittany Warman and Sara Cleto)

2015 Featured presenter, “At the Crossroads of Data and Wonder Symposium” at Brigham Young University (invited by Professor Jill Rudy)

2012 “Introduction to the Digital Humanities,” Center for Indigenous Culture Studies, Central University of Jharkhand (invited by Professor Rabindranath Sarma)

2012 “Belly Dance in Contemporary America: Origins, Meanings, Functions,” Center for Indigenous Culture Studies, Central University of Jharkhand (invited by Professor Rabindranath Sarma)

2012 Introductory lecture on indigenous cultures of North America, Center for Indigenous Culture Studies, Central University of Jharkhand (invited by Professor Rabindranath Sarma)

2012  “Gender and Folklore,” Manipuri Department, Manipur University (invited by Professor S. Sanatombi)

2012 “Belly Dance in Contemporary America: Origins, Meanings, Functions,” English and Manipuri Departments, Manipur University (invited by Professor S. Sanatombi and Professor Mani Meitei)

2011 University-wide Popular Lecture on American culture and folklore, Central University of Jharkhand (invited by Professor Rabindranath Sarma)

2011 Introductory lecture on indigenous cultures of North America, Center for Indigenous Culture Studies, Central University of Jharkhand (invited by Professor Rabindranath Sarma)

Guest Lectures

2024  Guest lecture on the history of sex education; AN380/Reproductive Technologies (invited by Julie Searcy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Butler University)

2023  Guest lecture on the history of sex education; AN216/Medical Anthropology (invited by Julie Searcy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Butler University)

2023 Guest lecture on creatively repurposing folklore; LMC 4813/LMC 8803 class, Special Topics in Digital Media: “Oral Traditions to Screenplay” undergraduate course + graduate seminar (invited by Ida Yoshinaga, Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech)

2022 Guest lecture on gender and culture; SW (Social World) 215 (invited by Julie Searcy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology)

2021 Guest lecture on fairy tales, gender, and the body; WGS 100, Perspectives in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Butler University (invited by Sonnet Gabbard, Visiting Instructor)

2021 Guest lecture on witches in folklore; German 390, Witch Hunts and Spiritualism in Early Modern Europe at Butler University (invited by Melissa Etzler, Lecturer)

2021 Guest lecture on folk dance; Popular Culture 6600 (Folklore and Folklife graduate seminar) at Bowling Green State University, Ohio (invited by Montana Miller, Associate Professor of Popular Culture)

2020 Guest lecture on Biden memes from the 2016 U.S. presidential election and their meanings; Coll-X311 on Memes and Current Events at Indiana University (invited by Marisa Wienecke, Lecturer)

2020 Guest lecture on Tarot history and creative writing; PCA233 at Butler University (invited by J. Rocky Colavito, Professor of English)

2019 Guest lecture on creative retellings of fairy tales; FOLK440 Fairy Tales at the University of Pennsylvania (invited by Linda Lee, Lecturer)

2019 Guest lecture on moral panics and sex panics in urban legends and folklore; GWSS303 Sex Panics at Butler University (invited by Brooke Beloso, Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies)

2019 Guest lecture on women’s voices and gender/power in fairy tales; GWSS100 Perspectives in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Butler University (invited by Irune Gabiola, Associate Professor of Spanish)

2018  Guest lecture on witches in folklore and mythology; AN380/HIST305 Witchcraft, Shamanism, and the New Age at Butler University (invited by Ageeth Sluis, Professor of History)

2017 Guest lecture on the adjunctification of higher education and blogging as academic activism; GWSS 405 Senior Capstone in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies: Occupy the University at Butler University (invited by Brooke Beloso, Professor of GWSS)

2016 Guest lecture on feminism and postfeminism; SOC 391: Social Theory Seminar at Butler University (invited by Antonio Menéndez-Alarcón, Professor of Sociology)

2016 Guest lecture on fairy tales as coming-of-age narratives; FYS 101-21: The Coming of Age Story at Butler University (invited by Farhad Anwarzai, lecturer)

2016 Guest lecture on body art and material culture; COM232L Visual Literacy at the University of Tampa (invited by Amanda Firestone, Assistant Professor of Communication)

2016 Guest lecture on gender and sexuality in fairy tales; GWSS100 Perspectives in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Butler University (invited by Ageeth Sluis, Associate Professor of Latin American History)

2015 Guest lecture on gender and sexuality in American folklore; FOLK201 American Folklore at University of Pennsylvania (invited by Adam Zolkover, Lecturer)

2015 Guest lecture on the body in folklore and culture; SO343 Popular Culture at Butler University (invited by Antonio Menendez-Alarcon, Professor of Sociology)

2014 Guest lecture on folk narrative and fairy tales; F101 Introduction to Folklore course at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis (invited by Philip Linder, Instructor)

2013 Guest lecture on the folk groups and identities of belly dance in America; F101 Introduction to Folklore course at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis (invited by Lydia Bringerud, Instructor)

2012 Guest lecture on identity and meanings within belly dance in America; Folk 101 Introduction to Folklore course at the University of Pennsylvania (invited by Linda Lee, instructor)

2012 Guest lecture on gender and the body; Seminar in Cultural Theory I (interdisciplinary Master’s level course for the Institute of Cultural Research and the Arts) at the University of Tartu (invited by Leena Kurvet-Käosaar, Associate Professor of Literary Theory)

2011 Guest lecture on gender and folklore; International Folkloristics graduate seminar at the University of Tartu (invited by Ülo Valk, Professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and Jonathan Roper, Senior Researcher)

2009 Guest lecture on the history and styles of belly dance in America; American folklore course at the University of Pennsylvania (invited by Linda Lee, instructor)

2009 Panelist at the Conference Workshop, as part of the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Students Association Professional Development Workshop Series (invited by Gabrielle Berlinger, of the Professional Development Committee)

2008 Guest lecture on tribal belly dance dress and adornment as community and identity; H401 “Cultural Aspects of Dress” in Apparel Merchandising and Design at Indiana University (invited by Carrie Hertz, Instructor)

2008 Guest lecture on belly dance and American identity and folklore; F131 “Folklore of Indiana” at Indiana University (invited by Sarah Lash, Instructor)

2005 Guest lecture on fairy tales; F101 “Introduction to Folklore”, Indiana University (invited to speak by Chantal Clarke, Assistant Instructor, Folklore)

2003 “Cricket’s Tale: Commercializing Folktales for Children;” Celtic R1A class, University of California, Berkeley (invited to speak by Jacqueline Fulmer, Lecturer, Celtic Studies)

Professional Experience

2019 Completed ACUE’s Certificate in Effective Instruction (ACUE is the Association of College and University Educators)

2016-19 Blogger at Patheos.com (the Foxy Folklorist Blog: Folklore, Culture, Sex)

2014-17 Regular contributor at Conditionally Accepted, a blog for academics on the margins

2013-19 Instructor of dance and troupe director of Indy Tribal and its student troupe Mandali Tribal

2012-16 Content writer for educational website Shmoop.com; primary contributor to literature study guides on Alanna, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, The City of Ember, Ella Enchanted, and Grimms’ fairy tales among others.

2010-14 Writer on gender, sexuality, and culture for the Kinsey-Institute affiliated blog MySexProfessor.com (under Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH)

2010-11 Dance instructor, Panache Dance Studio, Bloomington, Indiana

2009-10 Research Assistant to Kay Turner on the Transgressive Tales book project on the Brothers Grimm

2005-09 Dance instructor, Windfall Studio, Bloomington, Indiana

2003 Reader and grader, Anthropology 160, under Professor Alan Dundes, University of California, Berkeley

2002-04 Undergraduate Research Apprentice, University of California, Berkeley Folklore Archives

2000-01 Researcher, writer, and editor of art history educational materials for Acalon, Inc. (a company providing study guides for the national Academic Decathlon competition)

Professional Service

2024 Peer reviewer for Fabula

2024 Peer reviewer for Journal of Folklore & Ethnology

2023-24 Book review editor for Marvels & Tales

2023 Peer reviewer for Journal of Folklore Research

2023 Peer reviewer for The Lion and the Unicorn

2022-23 Advisor to an undergraduate recipient in Portugal of the Gulbenkian New Talents fellowship

2021  Research Grant Reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation

2021 Peer reviewer for Humanities

2019; 2021; 2022 Peer reviewer for Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies

2020; 2022 Peer reviewer for Western Folklore

2020 Member of the editorial board for Studies in the Fantastic

2020  Faculty presenter at the Butler University Homecoming/DEIB event, “So You Want to Talk About Toxic Masculinity?” co-presented with Dr. Shyam Sriram

2019 Faculty presenter at the Butler University Homecoming event, “From The Klan to Cultural Appropriation: A Conversation about Costuming and Inclusion,” co-presented with Dr. Shyam Sriram, sponsored by the Butler University Black Student Union and the Butler Student Government Association

2019 Faculty presenter for the Butler University LGBTQ Alliance on “Drag vs. Costumes: The Do’s and Don’ts for Halloween”

2019 Faculty reviewer for International Journal of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities

2018-19 External reader for dissertation of Emma Woods (Pacifica University; topic: the vagina dentata in mythology and folklore)

2014; 2016 Peer reviewer for Digital Humanities Quarterly

2013-14; 2016 Peer reviewer for Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies

2015 Peer reviewer for Journal of Folklore Research

2014; 2016 Peer reviewer for Journal of American Folklore

2014 Peer reviewer for Libri & Liberi: Journal of Research on Children’s Literature and Culture

2013 Peer reviewer for Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

2013 Discussant on panel on dance and music at “Publics and Networks: Discourse, Circulation, and Power,” a Collaborative Conference of the Indiana University Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations and the Ohio State University Folklore Student Association (Bloomington, Indiana)

2009-11 Member of the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society committee to award the Elli Köngäs Maranda Prize

2009-10 Chair of the Cultural Identities Caucus, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

2007-08 Senior Convener for the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society

2007 Head of Pushing Boundaries: Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Conference Planning Committee (Indiana University)

2006-07 Junior Convener for the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society

2006 Pushing Boundaries: Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Conference Planning Committee (Indiana University)

2005-07 Treasurer, Folklore Students Association (Indiana University)

2003 Ad hoc committee, undergraduate research guide, sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley Office of Undergraduate Research

2003 Invitation luncheon and consultation, University of California Executive Board

2003 Volunteer at joint annual conference: 25^th Annual California Celtic Studies Conference and Annual Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) Conference, University of California, Berkeley

Fellowships, Scholarships, Awards

2023 Butler Awards Committee (BAC) grant for instructional design (to redesign a course to be taught in Fall 2023, “Women, Gender, and Folklore”)

2018 Indiana University Department of Folklore and Anthropology travel grant to present at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

2016 Butler University History and Anthropology Department Mini-Grant to present at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

2014 Butler University Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program Mini-Grant to present at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

2011-12 DoRa Scholarship Recipient: full funding to reside and study at the University of Tartu, Estonia, hosted by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore

2011 Paul Fortier Prize Winner, for “Computational Analysis of Gender and the Body in European Fairy Tales” (co-authored with Scott Weingart) at Digital Humanities 2011

2009 Honorable Mention, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Graduate Student Award, for “Recovering the Goddess in Modern Fantasy: Scholarly and Spiritual Theories of Matriarchal Prehistory”

2007 American Folklore Society Student Travel Stipend Recipient

2007 College of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant

2007 Runner-up, Richard Reuss Prize for Students of Folklore and History, for “Why We Need Another Feminist Folklore Retrospective: Political and Theoretical Feminism in Folkloristics”

2007 Honorable Mention, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Graduate Student Award, for “Representations of Gypsiness in English-Language Fantasy Literature”

2004-07 Indiana University Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology Fellowship

2004 Phi Beta Kappa Society of California member, inducted in spring

2003 Travel Grant for Undergraduate Research Award (to present research)

2003 University of California, Berkeley Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2003 University of California, Berkeley Dean’s List

2002 Golden Key Honor Society member, inducted in the spring

2002 University of California, Berkeley Dean’s List

2001 University of California, Berkeley Dean’s List

2000-04 National Merit Scholarship, Semi-Finalist Monetary Award

Professional Affiliations

American Folklore Society

Hoosier Folklore Society

Institute for Atemporal Studies

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

International Society for Folk Narrative Research

Western States Folklore Society

References

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