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EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, expected 2015
Dissertation: “Embracing the Other: Monster Bridegrooms in Contemporary Media”
Advisor: Dr. Dan Ben-Amos
Certificate in College Teaching, 2009
M.A., Folklore and Folklife, 2005
M.A. paper: “Bodies and Boundaries: Rituals of the Secure Traveling Body”
Eighth Folklore Fellows Summer School, University of Helsinki, Lammi, Finland, 2010
Summer school theme: “After the New Folkloristics?”
University of California, Berkeley, California
M.A., Folklore, 2003
Thesis: “Reclaiming the Crone: Inversion and Identity in Salem’s Witch Iconography”
Advisor: Dr. Alan Dundes
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
B.A., summa cum laude, European Studies, English, 1994
Honors thesis: “C’era una volta: The Slandered Wife in Sicilian Folktales”
Advisor: Dr. Susan Niditch
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008–2014
Adjunct Faculty, College of Science, Health, and the Liberal Arts, Writing, 2009–2014
Adjunct Faculty, Continuing & Professional Studies, 2008, 2012
Professional Writing Tutor, 2009–2013
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010–2014
Adjunct Instructor, School of Liberal Arts, Intellectual Heritage Program
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008–2014
Instructor, College of Liberal and Professional Studies, Folklore, 2009–2014
Critical Writing Fellow, School of Arts and Sciences, 2008–2009
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2012-2013
Senior Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
“Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales,” Marvels & Tales 22(1) April 2008, 52-66.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming 2014 “Ugly Stepsisters and Unkind Girls: Reality TV’s Repurposed Fairy Tales.” Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television, Edited by Pauline Greenhill and Jill Rudy. Wayne State University Press Series in Fairy-Tale Studies, 2014.
Encyclopedia Entries
2013 “Ben-Amos, Dan.” In Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Rolf Wilhelm Brednich et al., eds. Göttingen: de Gruyter.
2013 “Zauberstab.” In Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Rolf Wilhelm Brednich et al., eds. Göttingen: de Gruyter.
2013 “Ben-Amos, Dan.” In Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions. Raphael Patai and Haya Bar-Itzhak, eds. M. E. Sharpe, 2013.
“Legend, Local.” (with Cathy Lynn Preston). In Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife. Locke, Liz, Theresa A. Vaughan, and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.
“Legend, Supernatural” (with Cathy Lynn Preston). In Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife. Locke, Liz, Theresa A. Vaughan, and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.
“Memorate.” In Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife. Locke, Liz, Theresa A. Vaughan, and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.
“Superstitions” (with Pauline Greenhill). In Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife. Locke, Liz, Theresa A. Vaughan, and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.
“Tradition-Bearer.” In Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife. Locke, Liz, Theresa A. Vaughan, and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.
“Busk, Rachel Harriette.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Gonzenbach, Laura.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Maguire, Gregory.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Mother.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Numbers.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Pitrè, Giuseppe.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Salomone-Marino, Salvatore.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
“Witch.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Book Reviews
“Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach; The Robber with a Witch’s Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Translated and edited by Jack Zipes.” Western Folklore, 65 (4): 2006, 474–477.
Museum Exhibits
“Grimms’ Anatomy: Magic and Medicine 1812-2012,” Co-Curator with Anna Dhody, Mütter Museum, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Beginning September 12, 2012.
Other Publications
“True Love’s Kiss,” The Popular Romance Project, March 22, 2012. Web.
“A Degenerating Debate,” ISFNR Newsletter, no. 2, March 2007, 24–25.
“An American Grad Student at the ISFNR,” ISFNR Newsletter, no. 1, January 2006, 14–15.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010–Present
Mosaic: Humanities Seminar I, Spring 2010–2014
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2012-2013
Analyzing Talk, Fall 2013
Introduction to Folklore, Fall 2012
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008–Present
College of Science, Health, and the Liberal Arts
Artist & Society in Literature & Film, Fall 2011, Spring 2014
Exploring World Literature, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, 2013
Introduction to Narrative, Fall 2012, 2013
Fundamentals of College Writing, Fall 2009, 2010, Spring 2011
Continuing & Professional Studies
Professional Communication Skills (Online), Summer 2012
Writing about Workplace Culture, Spring, Fall 2012
Introduction to Information Systems, Spring 2008
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004–2014
College of Liberal and Professional Studies
Introduction to Folklore, Summer 2010–2013
American Popular Culture, Summer 2009–2013
Folklore and the Supernatural, Spring 2010, 2013
American Folklore, Fall 2009, Spring 2014
School of Arts and Sciences
Writing Seminar in Folklore: Heroes and Monsters, Fall 2008–Spring 2009
Undergraduate Preceptorial Program, Spring 2010
Ghostlore, co-lead with David Hufford, Ph.D.
Grader/Teaching Assistant
Folklore and Sexuality
Great Story Collections
Introduction to Folklore
Jewish Humor
University of California, Berkeley, California, 2001–2003
Graduate Student Instructor
Introduction to American Studies, Spring–Summer 2003
Introduction to American Studies: The Body, Fall 2002
The American Languages, Spring 2002
Reader
Folklore and Memory, Fall 2002
Women and World Development, Fall 2001
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004–2011
Graduate Program in Folklore & Folklife
Research Assistant to Dan Ben-Amos, Ph.D., 2005–2011
Assisted with preparation of first three volumes of five-volume collection of Folktales of the Jews; organized guest lectures and other Folklore events.
Intern/Archivist, New River Gorge Project, Center for Folklore & Ethnography, 2004
Participated in ethnographic assessment and overview of communities near the New and Gauley Rivers, West Virginia, funded by the National Park Service. Responsible for conducting local fieldwork, library and archival research, maintaining project databases. Supervised by Mary Hufford, Ph.D.
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, California, 2002
Intern, Traditional Arts Program, Anthropology Department
Assisted with logistical and administrative aspects of the Traditional Arts Program. Documented Saturday public programs. Researched and wrote educational handouts. Conducted local fieldwork. Assisted with update of Bay Area Ethnic Heritage database. Supervised by Jennifer Michael, Ph.D.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS
2014 “Rehabilitating the Child-Stealing Witch: Motherhood and Magic in ABC’s Once Upon a Time.” Buffy to Batgirl: Women and Gender in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comics.” Rutgers University, Camden. To be presented on May 3, 2014.
2014 “Juxtaposition, Framing, and Complexity in Elizabeth Hoyt’s Fairy Tale Intertexts,” Romance Area, Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, to be presented on April 17, 2014.
2013 “Revising Red: Adaptation as Interpretation in ATU 333, ‘Little Red Riding Hood,’” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Providence, RI. Session organizer: Panel: Feasting on Granny’s Flesh: Little Red Riding Hood’s Pedagogical Possibilities in the General Education Classroom, October 17, 2013.
2013 “The Pedagogy of the Grimms’ Anatomy Exhibit,” Fairy Tales: Pedagogy Roundtable, Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 29, 2013.
2013 “Feasting on Granny’s Flesh: Little Red Riding Hood as a Gateway for Reading Literature in the Humanities Classroom,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Panel: Fairy Tale Pedagogy 1, March 28, 2013.
2012 “Offering Guidance, Dispensing Justice: The Moral Compass of the Grimm Fairy Tales,” The Grimm Brothers Today: Kinder- und Hausmarchen and Its Legacy 200 Years After, Lisbon, Portugal, Panel: The Grimms in America.
2012 “Upping the Anti-Tale: The Moral Compass of Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
2011 “Desiring the Undesirable: Stigmatizing the Beautiful and the Monstrous in Popular Romance,” Desire: From Eros to Eroticism, Department of Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, Panel: Haunting Desires in the Supernatural.
2011 “Whose Cinderella? Tale Types as Emic Markers in Popular Romance,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Bloomington, Indiana, Panel: Beyond Provenance: Rethinking Literature in Folklore.
2011 “The Illusion of Choice: Problematizing Predestined Love in Paranormal Romance,” Third Annual International Conference on Popular Romance Studies, International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, New York, New York, Panel: Love. Power. Justice?
2011 “Shifting Codes of Difference: Stigmatizing the Beautiful and the Monstrous in Popular Romance,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Panel: Beauty and the Beasts of Romance, Real and Imagined.
2010 “A Beast in the Sack: Popularizing the Supernatural in Urban Fantasy and Popular Romance,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, Panel: Going Cows for Beans: Making Markets for Folk Narrative.
2009 “Ugly Stepsisters and Unkind Girls: Rethinking Reality TV’s Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Boise, Idaho, Double-session co-organizer: Panel: Repurposing Folktales I and II, Sponsored by the Folk Narrative Section.
2009 “Transforming Monstrosity: Rethinking the Uses of (Dis)Enchantment,” 15th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Athens, Greece.
2009 “Unmaking Monstrosity in Contemporary Representations of Animal Bridegrooms,” The Fairy Tale after Angela Carter, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, Panel: Animal Bridegrooms.
2008 “Intertextual Monsters: Transformations of Beastly Bridegrooms in Contemporary Popular Culture,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, Session organizer: Panel: It’s Not all “Hybrid”: Intertextuality and Folkloristics.
2008 “Fairy Tales and Fairy Folk: Evolving Expectations of Contemporary Fairy Tales,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, Panel: Fairy Tales I: An Ubiquitous But Illusive Form.
2007 “Searching for the Female Quest in ATU 425,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Hilton Quebec, Quebec, Canada, Organized panel: Iconicity and the Folktale.
2007 “Are Witches Born or Made? Ambiguity and the Acquisition of Magical Knowledge,” Forging Folklore: Witches, Pagans, and Neo-Tribal Cultures, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Panel: The Learning Times: Narratives, Texts, and Knowledge.
2007 “An Alternate Genealogy: Reconsidering Romance Novels as Postmodern Fairy Tales,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, Panel: Romance IV: New Approaches, Enduring Debates.
2006 “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Motherhood in Supernatural Legends,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Session organizer: Panel: Constructing Gender across Narrative Genres.
2006 “Reclaiming the Crone: Identity and Iconography in Salem, Massachusetts,” Charming and Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Panel: Enchanted Landscapes: Paganism and Place.
2006 “Unhappily Ever After: Dissecting American Family Values and Mother-in-Law Relationships,” Western States Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California, Organized panel: Folklore and American Studies.
2005 “Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, Organized panel: The Carnalization and Carnivalization of Fairy Tales.
2005 “No Joking Matter: Slandered Brides and Scheming Mothers-in-Law,” 14th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Tartu, Estonia, Panel: Narrative Genres: Fairy Tale 6.
2005 “Bodies and Boundaries: Rituals of the Secure Travel Body,” Ninth Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green, Ohio, Panel: September 11.
2004 “Ideologies of Honor and Shame in Italian Folktales of Fidelity and Innocence,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Panel: Folktale.
2004 “A Place to Remember: The Salem Witch Trials Memorial and the Politics of Memory,” Eighth Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green, Ohio.
INVITED TALKS
2014 Talk Back for “The Juniper Tree,” The Renegade Company, Philadelphia, February 6, 2014.
2013 “Raising the Dead in Fairy Tales,” invited speaker for Day of the Dead Celebration, Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, November 2, 2013.
2012 “The Science and Magic of Fairy-Tale Birth,” Science on Tap, National Mechanics, presented by the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2011 “Insects, Alligators, and Exotic Dangers: Urban Legends of Contamination,” Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library Annual Meeting, Chestnut Hill Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2004 “Reconciling Witchcraft and Modernity: The Persistence of Magical Beliefs in Modern Societies,” African Studies Scholar for a Day, Panel on Belief and Behavior, University of Pennsylvania.
SERVICE
Professional Service
Manuscript Review
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
Folk Narrative Section, American Folklore Society
Co-convener, 2009–Present
Graduate Students Section, American Folklore Society
afsgrads listserve moderator, 2006–2009
Women’s Section, American Folklore Society
Elli Kongäs-Maranda Prize Committee (Chair, 2008), 2005–2006, 2008
Senior Convener, 2007
Junior Convener, 2006
Public Folklore Section, American Folklore Society
Archie Green Student Travel Award Committee, 2007
Pushing Boundaries, Folklore & Ethnomusicology Grad Student Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Pushing Boundaries 2007 Committee Member, 2006–2007
University Service
Graduate Student Government, School of Arts and Sciences (SASgov), University of Pennsylvania
Folklore & Folklife Representative, 2007–2009
Policy and Administration Committee, 2007–2009
SASgov/Library Task Force on Research Materials, 2008-2009
Graduate Students Activities Council, University of Pennsylvania
Folklore & Folklife Representative; Mentoring Committee, 2007
Folklore & Folklife Alternate Representative, 2005–2006
NON-ACADEMIC WORK
Freelance Editorial/Consulting Services, 1997–Present
Episcopal Academy, Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, Summers 2005–2008
Instructor, Summer Technology Initiative
MyCFO, Mountain View, California, 2000–2001
Contract Technical Writer/Journalist
Catapulse Inc., Cupertino, California, 2000
Editor/Web Program Manager
Sybex Inc., Alameda, California, 1999–2000
Acquisitions and Developmental Editor
Digital Production Executive, New York, New York, 1997–1998
Senior Editor
Desktop Publishers Journal, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1994–1997
Senior Editor, 1996-1997
Managing Editor, 1995-1996
Copy Editor, 1994-1995
HONORS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
SAS Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
Graduate Student Travel Stipend, American Folklore Society, 2011
Philadelphia Experience (PEX) Partnership Stipend, Temple University, 2011
Kenneth Goldstein Fieldwork Award, Folklore & Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2008–2009
William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2003–2008
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Folklore Society
Western States Folklore Society (formerly California Folklore Society)
Hoosier Folklore Society
Popular Culture Association
American Culture Association
International Association for the Study of Popular Romance
Folklore Fellows, Associate Member
Modern Language Association
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