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Folk Cited Recap: Vampire Birthday and Carmilla

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It’s never a bad time to talk about vampires (especially during the sunniest parts of the year)! For the August Folk Cited episode, as part of a tongue-in-cheek nod to Dr. Jared’s birthday and his vampiric-scholarship, we discuss the incredibly influential 19th c. Gothic novella, “Carmilla,” written by Sheridan Le Fanu, in the August editionContinue reading “Folk Cited Recap: Vampire Birthday and Carmilla”

Folk Cited Recap: Horse Girls, 4H, & Misty of Chincoteague

We returned to our #HorseGirl roots and read Margarite Henry’s “Misty of Chincoteague” and the legacy of horses in young adult fiction for the July episode of Folk Cited. Kaitlyn, Caroline, and our guest Gin Seigel, all former and current Horse Girls, celebrated their younger awkward years together, inviting the audience in to the experienceContinue reading “Folk Cited Recap: Horse Girls, 4H, & Misty of Chincoteague”

Folk Cited Recap: Zora Neale Hurston, Fieldwork, and Florida Folklore

Black and white image taken from a film by Zora Neale Hurston of African American children playing games and dancing. Text on the image reads "Folkwise Live. Folk Cited: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston." There are also small symbols in just black of pears, a mule, and an old fashioned audio tape player.

It’s the middle of summer; what season could be better to read folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s renowned Their Eyes Were Watching God? The heat, ethnography, and Dr. Dom’s position as the current State Folklorist of Florida inspired us to explore the history of folklore in this Southern state through the legacy of Hurston for thisContinue reading “Folk Cited Recap: Zora Neale Hurston, Fieldwork, and Florida Folklore”

Folk Cited Recap: Queer Mycology and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

An image of a stack of books with two 3D printed slugs on top. There are also plants and a sign in the background that reads “Folkwise is Alive @ Twitch.tv/Folkwise. Worm theory.” The texts included are: “Mushroom at the End of the World” by Anna Tsing; “Entangled Life” by Merlín Sheldrake; “The Multispecies Salon” ed. by Eben Kirksey; “Performing Environmentalisms” ed. by McDowell, Borland, Dirksen, and Tuohy; “Finding the Mother Forest” by Suzanne Simard; “Radical Mycology” by Peter McCoy.

Mycology is the study of fungi, which includes mushrooms and yeasts. This is an interdisciplinary field most notably carried out in hard sciences and biological fields, but has branched out into other disciplines and collaborations, including grassroots and community movements. These groups work together with fungi to help us better understand the influence of fungusContinue reading “Folk Cited Recap: Queer Mycology and Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake”