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leprendun
Registered User
(5/6/05 6:04 pm)
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Folklore in grad school
Does anyone know of any PhD programs in the U.S. or Canada that offers a degree in folklore besides Indiana University? UPenn recently shut theirs down, as did UCBerekely, and I'd rather not be stuck with just one option in case I don't get in. Any info would be appreciated, thanks.
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(5/6/05 6:16 pm)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
Try some of the links available on this page, especially the ones at the bottom:
Graduate
School Studies and Fairy Tales
Heidi
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(5/9/05 8:10 pm)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
I added more information to the link I posted above, especially links to many U.S. programs. Hope it helps.
If anyone knows of more programs I need to add, please let me know. I am also quite happy to add programs outside the U.S. if anyone wants to share those, but I'm low on time and information for those. SurLaLune is rather international these days.
Heidi
Edited by: Heidi Anne Heiner at: 5/9/05 8:13 pm
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leprendun
Registered User
(5/9/05 10:14 pm)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
Thank you very much for your information. Just be aware - some of the programs you have listed are discontinued.
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beautifulstars
Unregistered User
(5/19/05 12:57 pm)
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newfoundland folklore
Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, has a renowned undergrad and grad folklore degree. You can check it out at www.mun.ca
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lucysnyder
Registered User
(5/24/05 12:55 pm)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
Ohio State University also has a Center
for Folklore Studies ... students can get MA or PhD degrees
in Folklore, but you do it through other departments. MA students
enroll in the Department of Comparative Studies, but PhD students
typically enroll in the English Department, though some have earned
their degrees through the Slavic Languages and Literatures and East
Asian Languages and Literatures departments.
Odd, yes, but it's another option.
Lucy
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Judith
Berman
Registered User
(5/25/05 7:57 am)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
There is an effort to restart Penn's undergraduate program (I'll be teaching in it in the fall), with the hope of bringing back the doctoral program, but I am not in possession of very many concrete facts.
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Veronica
Schanoes
Registered User
(5/25/05 8:00 am)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
That's fabulous news! I'll be back at Penn in the fall. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.
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catja1
Registered User
(5/26/05 5:36 pm)
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Folklore in grad school
MA students at Ohio State can also do what I did, and go through the English department, specializing in folklore; this is especially useful if you want to do work on folklore in its literary and/or historical manifestations. It depends on what your interests are.
Edited by: catja1 at: 5/27/05 12:54 pm
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Helen
J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(5/26/05 6:59 pm)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
Another thing to consider: many of the "best" scholars currently in the field are employed at institutions which do not offer technical programs in folklore (typically under the aegis of Comparative Literature or the language of their choosing), but which still allow students to pursue their own interests. Jack Zipes is at the University of Minnesota, Maria Tatar at Harvard, Nancy Canepa at Dartmouth College, Carol G. Silver at Yeshiva University, Elizabeth Wanning-Harries at Smith ... one thing that might make sense for you would be simply to e-mail the individuals whose work you most admire to ask them whether it might be possible for you to work with them, and whether they might have any advice for you as you begin the graduate application process. I did this when I was trying to figure out which schools to apply to, and the results were both startling and beneficial: schools which felt unable to offer sufficient support were normally very up-front, and the majority of the scholars whom I contacted, even when they could not recommend that I apply to their institutions, were wonderful fonts of advice. Additionally, in many cases, the school from which you graduate is considerably less of a factor in the hiring process then the identity of your advisor: forming a relationship with a potential committee member early on (or, for that matter, with someone who might, much later down the line, be sitting in on your interviews) is probably not a bad idea.
Also, even if some of these programs are unsuitable for you (whether for geographic reasons, or because the school in question only offers a BA or terminal MA, etc.) keep in mind that many larger universities allow their students to work in "consortium" type deals to import outside advisors. That's what I'm doing ...
Good luck!
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lucysnyder
Registered User
(5/27/05 2:32 pm)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
catja1, what did you think of the English program at OSU? I'm a staff member there, and have been debating going back to get an English degree, but haven't been able to figure out what would happen if I let my specfic roots show ....
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catja1
Registered User
(5/27/05 11:34 pm)
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Re: Folklore in grad school
Lucy,
My experience was very good; there's a lot of great people there, especially in folklore. Amy Shuman, Dorrie Noyes, and Pat Mullen (who may be retired by now) are all terrific. Another area they're very strong in is medieval lit. Like all schools, it really depends upon what you want to study. If you want to do specific work on fairy tales, I'd suggest somewhere else, as they don't have a fairy tale specialist, but for general folklore, they're great. OSU is also very good about supporting grad students, financially and otherwise -- always a consideration!
Catja
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