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Most people pledge to start running for New Year's. I'm going to stop running. A...

I am not a religious person. This is for many reasons, but one of those...

In my Introduction to Folklore class yesterday, we talked about food, leaving me, of course, super-hungry...

Ack, I'd meant to post more this month. But this month turned into moving (which...

I am only okay at telling stories. However, I'm actually really good at telling stories...

I've been turning this post over in my head for a few months, and now...

In order to give y'all a glimpse into what it is that I do as...

I am a teacher, scholar, feminist and performer (among the other identities I shift in...

I've been meaning to post about various things lately; some of my post ideas include...

Again, normally I save the sex posts for MySexProfessor.com ... but this is a little...

This weekend, some folklore colleagues and I watched an Estonian film titled "Nukitsamees" which translates...

This Chronicle article by Emma Thornton tells a familiar story: a female academic is told...

For over a month now, I have been thinking about the intersections between issues of...

I'm still in conference-recovery mode (see my post on this year's ICFA to see part...

At this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (one of my all-time...

Normally I'd post about sex and related topics over at MySexProfessor.com but this topic has...

It warmed my heart to see this Chronicle piece on gay mentors in modern academe....

Yes, you read that right. Last night in conversation with some of my international colleagues,...

I am wholeheartedly in agreement with this blog post that says: "in research terms blogging...

I just returned from a trip to India that was mostly a "working vacation" (I...

I'm really concerned about education in America. For one thing, the education senate committee in...

If I downloaded and activated the Wordpress plug-in correctly, my website should go black from...

The details are yet to be finalized, but I am supposed to give a lecture...

For the non-folklorists out there, we use the term "tale type" to refer to a...

Here is the CFP for the International Conference of Young Folklorists, "Theoretical Frames and Empirical...

I sorta found the digital humanities by accident. Or rather, they found me. But before...

Now that I've finished my dissertation, I feel that I can begin to blog in...

I've been meaning to start and maintain my own blog for, hm, a year and...