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compiled by Patrick Carroll Using questions about areas of interest and past education, here we provide a sketch of graduate students in their own words. John Bodner. From: Gasline (find it on a map & win 25 cents). Past Education: BA Trent U.; MA MUN; PhD MUN In progress. Previous Research: M.A. “Slash Romance: An Ethnography and Occupational Folklore Study of a Northern Ontario Treeplanting Company.” Current Research: PhD. “Sheltering Narratives: An Ethnography of a Homeless Youth Community in Downtown Toronto.” Areas of interest: Youth Subcultures, work, popculture and representation, theory. Character you most resemble: Esmerelda (Gonzo’s chicken “friend”) or Mojo Jojo (some mornings you just feel like a charismatic monkey with a giant brain and a Napoleon complex). Kate Bride. From: Toronto, Ontario. Past Education: BA York University; MA Art History, York University. Previous Research: “Remembering the Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914: Some Reflections on the Crisis of Representation.” Areas of interest: Trauma, memory and representations; contemporary feminisms; the production of “queer” culture. Character you most resemble: hmmm - not sure. Ian Brodie. From: Ottawa, Ontario. Past Education: BA, Religious Studies, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB; MA (in progress) Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto; MA, Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Previous Research: BA: “Gender inclusive/exclusive language from the perspective of Bernard Lonergan and Max Scheler.” MA (Theology): “Bernard Lonergan and Comedy.” MA (Religious Studies): “Bernard Lonergan and Religious studies: Functional Specialisation and the Academic Study of Religion.” Current Research: Stand-up Comedy and Folkloristics. Areas of interest: Popular Culture, Comedy, Parody, Belief. Character you most resemble: Foghorn Leghorn / Bunsen Honeydew / Jesus / Lauri Honko / That guy who buries the other guy in Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” Patrick Carroll. From: Winnipeg, Manitoba. Past Education: BA Anthropology/ Archaeology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario. Previous research: “Land Use History of Wapusk, National Park”; “Hay Camp/Ejere K’Elni Kue: A Social and Land-Use History 1922-2001, Wood Buffalo National Park.” Current Research: “The Past in the Present: Oral History, Material Culture, and Self-Identity in Placentia, Newfoundland.” Areas of interest: Folk Art, Community history, Canadian cultural identity. Character you most resemble: Apparently I look like anyone but me. John Drover. From: Windsor, Newfoundland. Past Education: B.A. Folklore (Chemistry) Memorial University of Newfoundland; M.A. Folklore (Current) Memorial University of Newfoundland. Current Research: “Potential, Currents and Resistance: A Queer Look at the Circuit. Areas of interest: Pop Culture, Urban and Sexual Subcultures, Muscle/Physique Culture, Afro-American Music Forms, Gay Pornography. Character you most resemble: Speed Racer Holly Everett. From: Austin, Texas. Past Education: BA English Literature, University of Texas at Austin; MA Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Previous Research: “Roadside Crosses in Central Texas.” Current Research: “Food and Tourism in Atlantic Canada.” Areas of interest: belief, material culture, music. Character you most resemble: Marcie from Peanuts Lee Everts. From: A bunch of places and nowhere in particular really. Past Education: B.Sc Physical Geography, Guelph; MA Landscape Archaeology, Sheffield. Previous Research: MA “Ani-mating the Isles of Bharraigh and Bhatarsaigh.” Areas of interest: archaeology/ biking, of course/costume and clothing design/ environmental studies-fluvial, coastal, agricultural/ fur trade history (newly rekindled)/ history and folklore of northern and western isles/ interest in Canada, its history and how this country does not suffer from an identity crisis/ landscape and land use studies/ zebras. Character you most resemble: I’m not sure about resemblance, but Oblio from the Land of Point is one of my heroes. Jillian Gould. From: Toronto, Ontario – but most recently from Brooklyn, NY. Past Education: Hon. BA Major: Jewish History and Literature, Minors: English and Women’s Studies, University of Toronto; MA Performance studies, New York University. Previous Research: “Consuming Nostalgia: Drinking Egg Creams, Performing Memory.” Current thesis: “How the Elderly Jewish Residents of the Baycrest Terrace Make Home.” Areas of interest: Jewish studies; food; memory culture. Character you most resemble: Sally J. Freedman (as herself). Douglas Jole. From: The Pacific Northwest. Past Education: BA Humanities, BYU; MA Comparative Literature, BYU. Previous Research: MA thesis, “Oral Performance in Beowulf.” Current Research: “Scrapbooking as Autoethnography.” Areas of interest: Material culture, traditional music, folk literature. Character you most resemble: Muppet: the obscure but lovable Lew Zealand and his boomerang fish. Julie LeBlanc. From: Ottawa, Ontario. Past Education: B.A. Medieval Studies, University of Ottawa; Certificate in Anthropology and Medieval Studies Université de Montréal; Master’s of Philosophy in Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin. Previous Research: “Lamentations of the Past: An Echo of the Medieval Irish Keening Woman.” Current Research: “Female Deaths Customs on the Island of Ouessant (Brittany, France).” Areas of interest: Death customs, beliefs. Character you most resemble: Some people say Sailor Moon … I beg to differ!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jon Lee. From: St. George, Utah. Past Education: BA, Gonzaga University; Secondary Education Teaching Certificate, Southern Utah University; MA Utah State University. Previous Research: MA Thesis, “Alternative Herbal Cancer Therapies: An Examination of the Efficacies of Four Remedies.” Current Research: Lay Health issues (with Diane Goldstein). Areas of interest: Folk medicine, eating, 51. Character you most resemble: The son from “For Better or Worse”/Sir Didymus from Labyrinth/Albert Einstein (no shit: an Internet test told me so!) / ? / Arthur Philip Dent. Christopher Lewis. From: Grand Falls, Newfoundland. Past Education: BA Anthropology / Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland; LLB University of New Brunswick. Current Research: Company Town Architecture. Areas of interest: Vernacular Architecture, “legal” humour. Character you most resemble: You tell me! Gary R. Lundrigan. From: London and Stratford Ontario. Born in St. John’s NL before Confederation. Yes ... I am really that old. Past Education: My undergrad degree is from the University of Western Ontario and the University of British Columbia with other courses from the University of Toronto and York University … and … well you know, a teachers lot. Previous Research: I am a secondary school teacher. After graduating from UWO with a undergrad degree in Classics and Social Psychology I attended Althouse College of Education where I received my Education degree I have a specialist in Drama and Theatre. Current Research: “The Good Man – The Common Hero of Newfoundland.” Areas of interest: Music, trying to stay warm, and the people of Newfoundland. Character you most resemble: The dog from Fraggle Rock. Jodi McDavid. From: Flatlands, NB. Past Education: MA, MUN, “‘We’re Dirty Sons of Bitches:’ Residence Rites of Passage at a Small Maritime University.” Current Research: Anticlerical Legends and Belief. Character you most resemble: Eric Cartman Lynne Sullivan McNeill. From: Lafayette, CA. (A small town in the San Francisco bay area). Past Education: BA, Interdisciplinary Studies/Folklore, UC Berkeley; MA, American Studies / Folklore, Utah State University. Previous Research: BA, “Word and Image: Illustration and Text in ‘Little Red Riding Hood’”; MA, “The Waving Ones: An Examination of Cats in Folklore.” Current Research: I’ve only been here a few months; give a girl time to decide! Areas of interest: Legends, beliefs, folktales. Character you most resemble: According to three different pop culture personality tests from the Internet, I’m either Jiminy Cricket, Ferris Bueller, or Lando Calrissian. Hmmm … Dufferin A. Murray. From: Fredericton, NB. Past Education: BA Anthropology, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB.; MA Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.; PhD Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NF, In Progress. Previous Research: BA, “Processes and Antinomies: ‘Race’ and Other Relations”; MA--”From the Word Up: The Poetic Message of Rap Music”; Current Research: PhD--”In Moments of Silence: Oral Narratives of New Brunswick’s Second World War Veterans.” Areas of interest: Music, poetics, linguistics, theory, mimetics. Character you most resemble: Uncle Travelling Matt Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson. From: Winnipeg, MB. Past Education: B.Ph. Isl, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Previous Research: “Havda saga birtist i tjodsagnafraedi Vestur-Islendinga?” (What History is Revealed in the Oral Narratives of the Western-Icelanders?). Areas of interest: Popular culture, traditional culture, ethno-musicology, audio-visual realm, circumpolar studies, folklife Havala Osdoba. From: Seattle, USA. Past Education: BA Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington. Previous Research: “Why Anthropologists Shouldn’t Answer Rhetorical Questions: Discursive Perspectives on “The Ecological Indian.”” Areas of interest: post-colonial dialogue; travel narrative; community “biography”; big trees; small children; sudden rainstorms; high altitudes. Character you most resemble: Lisa Simpson Justin Partyka. From: Heacham – a rural, coastal town in the county of Norfolk on the east coast of England. Past Education: BA Hons, American Studies, Minor English Literature, Brunel University; MA Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland; PhD candidate in Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Previous Research: Hons thesis: “Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South: The Bluegrass Music of Bill Monroe and Sentimental Romance”; MA thesis: “The Occupational Folklife of a Norfolk Lurcherman”; current thesis: “Folklore Fieldwork and the Aesthetics of Documentary Photography: In Search of a Visual Folkloristics.” Areas of interest: Documentary photography, fieldwork theory and method, occupational folklife, rural folklife, bluegrass and old-time music. Character you most resemble: Frankie Lee. Wendy Welch. From: Born American, now living in Scotland. Past Education: BS Journalism, University of Tennessee; M.Ed. Storytelling (yes they do) East Tennessee State University. Previous Research: “Storytelling in Education.” Current Research: “The Story-telling Revival and its Relation to Tradition.” Areas of interest: Humour, ballads, women’s material culture, cultural and group interaction theory. Character you most resemble: Grover, except he was taller.
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