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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.