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Education
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Folklore & Folklife (TBD, not currently enrolled)
Dissertation topic: “Asking for It: Legacies of Patriarchy in European Fairy Tales”
Advisor: Dan Ben-Amos
Certificate in College Teaching, 2009
M.A., Folklore & Folklife, 2005
M.A. paper: “Bodies and Boundaries: Rituals of the Secure Traveling Body”
University of California, Berkeley, California
M.A., Folklore, 2003
Thesis: “Reclaiming the Crone: Inversion and Identity in Salem’s Witch Iconography”
Advisor: 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: Susan Niditch
Eighth Folklore Fellows Summer School, University of Helsinki, Lammi, Finland, 2010
Summer school theme: “After the New Folkloristics?”
Professional Appointments
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Director, Instructional Design, Wharton School, Wharton Computing, 2018–Present
Lecturer, College of Liberal & Professional Studies, Folklore, 2014–Present
Instructional Design Program Manager, Wharton School, Wharton Computing, 2018
Instructional Design Project Leader, Wharton School, Wharton Computing, 2015–2018
Teaching Assistant Instructor, College of Liberal & Professional Studies, Folklore, 2009–2013
Critical Writing Fellow, School of Arts and Sciences, 2008–2009
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Adjunct Instructor, School of Liberal Arts, Intellectual Heritage Program, 2010–2016
Philadelphia University (now Jefferson University), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Adjunct Faculty, College of Science, Health, and the Liberal Arts, 2009–2015
Adjunct Faculty, Continuing & Professional Studies, 2008, 2012
Professional Writing Tutor, Learning & Advising Center, 2009–2013
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Adjunct Faculty, Classical and Modern Languages, 2015
Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey
Adjunct Faculty,Writing Arts Program, 2013–2015
Cabrini College, Radnor, Pennsylvania
Lecturer, 2014
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Senior Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts, 2012–2013
Publications
Book Chapters
2020 “Trickster Remakes this White House: Booby Traps and Bawdy/Body Humor in Post-Election Prankster Biden Memes,” co-authored with Jeana Jorgensen. Folklore and Social Media. Edited by Trevor Blank and Andrew Peck. Utah State University Press, pp. 129–144.
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, pp. 275–293.
Refereed Journal Articles
2008 “Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales,” Marvels & Tales 22(1) April 2008, 52-66.
Encyclopedia Entries and Book Reviews
2016 “Media and Popular Culture.” In Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translations and Texts from around the World, 2nd edition. Anne Duggan and Donald Haase with Helen Callow, eds. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press (an imprint of ABC-CLIO), 2016.
2014 “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.
2009 “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.
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.
2009 “Memorate.” In Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife. Locke, Liz, Theresa A. Vaughan, and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.
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.
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.
2008 “Busk, Rachel Harriette.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
2008 “Gonzenbach, Laura.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
2008 “Maguire, Gregory.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
2008 “Mother.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
2008 “Numbers.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
2008 “Pitrè, Giuseppe.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
2008 “Salomone-Marino, Salvatore.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
2008 “Witch.” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Book Reviews
2006 “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, 474–77.
Museum Exhibits
2018 “Poisoned Sleep: Frankenstein and Sleep Paralysis,” Co-Curator with Anna Dhody, Mütter Museum, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exhibit open February 22, 2018–Present.
2012 “Grimms’ Anatomy: Magic and Medicine 1812–2012,” Co-Curator with Anna Dhody, Mütter Museum, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exhibit open September 12, 2012–Present.
Teaching Experience
University of Pennsylvania
College of Liberal and Professional Studies, Folklore & Folklife
Introduction to Folklore – Online (Summer 2016–2020)
Fairy Tales – Online (Spring 2018, Fall 2019)
Folklore and the Supernatural (Spring 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
American Folklore (Fall 2009; Spring 2014, Fall 2016–2018)
Fairy Tales (Summer 2015)
Introduction to Folklore (Summer 2010–2015)
American Popular Culture (Summer 2009–2013)
School of Arts and Sciences
Writing Seminar in Folklore: Heroes and Monsters (Fall 2008–Spring 2009)
Undergraduate Preceptorial Program
Ghostlore, co-lead with David Hufford, Ph.D. (Spring 2010)
Temple University
Mosaic: Humanities Seminar I (Spring 2010–2016)
Mosaic: Humanities Seminar I – Online (Spring 2015–Fall 2015)
Wayne State University
Understanding the Fairy Tale – Online (Summer 2015)
Philadelphia University (now Jefferson University)
College of Science, Health, and the Liberal Arts
Artist & Society in Literature & Film (Fall 2011; Spring 2014, 2015)
Exploring World Literature (Fall 2011; Spring 2012, 2013)
Introduction to Narrative (Fall 2012–2014)
Fundamentals of College Writing (Fall 2009, 2010; Spring 2011)
Continuing & Professional Studies
Writing about Workplace Culture (Spring, Fall 2012)
Professional Communication Skills – Online (Summer 2012)
Introduction to Information Systems (Spring 2008)
Rowan University
Intensive College Composition 1 (Fall 2013, 2014; Spring 2015)
Cabrini College
Introduction to Writing (Fall 2014)
University of the Arts
Analyzing Talk: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Fall 2013)
Introduction to Folklore (Fall 2012)
Selected Conference Presentations
2021 “Change the Prompt, Not the Tool: Developing Effective Discussions.” Presented with J. Meryl Krieger and Adam Zolkover. Poster session. EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021, Philadelphia, PA. October 28, 2021.
2021 “Fostering Inclusive Learning: Universal Design for Learning in Introduction to Folklore” Organized panel: Pandemic Pedagogy. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting Virtual Conference. October 18, 2021.
2021 “Change the Prompt, Not the Tool: Developing Effective Discussions.” Presented with J. Meryl Krieger and Adam Zolkover. InstructureCon 2021 Virtual Conference. October 7, 2021.
2021 “Look Who’s Talking: Fairy Tales as Social Scripts for Discrediting Women’s Testimonies of Abuse.” The 42nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Virtual Conference. March 19, 2021.
2020 “‘Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story’: Testimonies of Trauma and Abuse in Folk and Fairy Tales.” Organized panel: #MeToo in Fairyland: Abuse and (Un)Tellability in Folk and Fairy Tales. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting Virtual Conference. October 15, 2020.
2020 “Resisting Silence: Testimonies of Trauma and Abuse in Fairy Tales.” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
2020 “‘Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story’: Testimonies of Trauma and Abuse in Folk and Fairy Tales.” Organized panel: #MeToo in Fairyland: Abuse and (Un)Tellability in Fairy Tale and Folk Narrative. The 41st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
2019 “Still a Himba Girl: Tradition, Transformation, and Identity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti.” Organized panel: Feminist Sci-Fi and Folklore. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. October 18, 2019.
2019 “When Does BluePrint Makes Sense for the Individual Instructor?” InstructureCon 2019, Long Beach, CA. July 11, 2019.
2019 “When the Beast Demands a Bride: Normalizing Sexualized Violence in Fairy Tales.” Organized panel: The Gender Politics of Sexual Violence: Incels in Folk Narrative, Fantasy, and Pop Culture. The 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March 14, 2019.
2018 “Transhumanism in Fairy Tales,” Philcon 2018, Cherry Hill, NJ, November 17, 2018.
2018 “‘Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ Without Fear’: Problematizing Consent in “Beauty and the Beast” (ATU 425C).” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY. October 19, 2018.
2018 Discussant for panel session, “Reverence and Resistance in Folk Narrative,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY. October 18, 2018.
2018 “Lessons Learned from a Year with Blueprint Courses.” InstructureCon 2018, Keystone, CO. July 26, 2018.
2018 “Finding the Fairy Tale in Popular Romance.” Researching the Romance Conference, Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. April 13, 2018.
2018 “Bluebeard or Beast?: Gothic and Fairy Tale Influences on Popular Romance.” The 39th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March 15, 2018.
2017 Discussant for organized panel session, “The Body Politic: Bodies in Memes and Narratives of Contemporary American Political Activism,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. October 19, 2017.
2017 Organized panel: “Teaching Folklore in the Age of Trump.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. October 19, 2017.
2017 “‘What Else Could the Story Possibly Be?’: Subverting the Logic of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Ellen Kushner’s The Privilege of the Sword.” Organized session: Myths, Manners, and Imagined Communities: The Uses of Folk Narrative in the Works of Ellen Kushner. The 38th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March 24, 2017.
2016 “‘What Else Could the Story Possibly Be?’: Narrative Logic in Ellen Kushner’s The Privilege of the Sword.” Organized session: Mannerpunk, Myth-Ritual, and the Faerie Court: The Uses of Folk Narrative in the Works of Ellen Kushner. American Folklore Society/International Society for Folk Narrative Research Joint Meeting, Miami, FL. October 20, 2016.
2016 Organized panel: “Once Upon a Pedagogue: Teaching Gender and Sexuality with Fairy Tales.” The 37th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March 19, 2016.
2015 “Escaping the Lab: The Man-Made Monster Bridegrooms of Paranormal Romance.” The 36th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. March 20, 2015.
2014 Chair and discussant for organized panel session, “Faux-Lore: Traditional Practice in Digital Communities,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM. November 8, 2014.
2014 “Rehabilitating the Child-Stealing Witch: Motherhood and Magic in ABC’s Once Upon a Time.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM. Organized panel: At the Crossroads of Folk Narrative, TV and Gender. November 7, 2014.
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. Panel: Witches and Wicked Women. 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. Panel: Romance II: Love and God; Life and Art, 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 “Grim(m) Metamorphoses: Shape-Shifting Heroes in Fantastic Fiction,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Session organizer: Panel: Grim(m) Monsters: Revising Fairy Tale Monstrosity in Fantastic Literature. Sponsored by Folk Narrative Section, October 27, 2012.
2012 “Offering Guidance, Dispensing Justice: The Moral Compass of the Grimm Fairy Tales,” The Grimm Brothers Today: Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Its Legacy 200 Years After, Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Panel: The Grimms in America, June 23, 2012.
2012 “Upping the Anti-Tale: The Moral Compass of Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, April 13, 2012.
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, November 10, 2011.
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, October 15, 2011.
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? June 27, 2011.
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, April 21, 2011.
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, October 15, 2010.
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 Folk Narrative Section, October 23, 2009.
2009 “Transforming Monstrosity: Rethinking the Uses of (Dis)Enchantment,” 15th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Athens, Greece, June 23, 2009.
2009 “Unmaking Monstrosity in Contemporary Representations of Animal Bridegrooms,” The Fairy Tale after Angela Carter, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, Panel: Animal Bridegrooms, April 25, 2009
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, October 24, 2008.
2008 “Fairy Tales and Fairy Folk: Evolving Expectations of Contemporary Fairy Tales,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Panel: Fairy Tales I: An Ubiquitous But Illusive Form, March 20, 2008.
2007 “Searching for the Female Quest in ATU 425,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Hilton Quebec, Quebec, Canada, Organized panel: Iconicity and the Folktale, October 20, 2007
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, May 4, 2007
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, April 5, 2007
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, October 21, 2006
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, May 20, 2006
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, April 22, 2006
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, October 23, 2005
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, July 28, 2005
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, June 3, 2005
2004 “Ideologies of Honor and Shame in Italian Folktales of Fidelity and Innocence,” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Panel: Folktale, October 16, 2004 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, June 3, 2004.
Invited Talks
2021 Keynote: “Developing Inclusive Educational Experiences with Universal Design for Learning,” Feedback Fruits inspirED Virtual Conference, May 26, 2021.
2018 “Fairy Tale Precursors in the Scientific Imagination: Transhumanism and Transbiology,” Philadelphia Science Fiction Society Meeting, August 3, 2018.
2018 “The Stuff of Nightmares: Vampires in Folklore,” introductory talk for Mütter Museum: Not-So-Silent Cinema showing of Vampyr (1932), Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, February 22, 2018.
2017 “Blueprint Courses at Wharton,” Fall Community Showcase, Canvas Community, November 1, 2017.
2014 Scholar “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, May 14, 2012.
2011 “Insects, Alligators, and Exotic Dangers: Urban Legends of Contamination,” Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library Annual Meeting, Chestnut Hill Library, Philadelphia, June 1, 2011.
Campus Talks
2019 “Project Management for Instructional Designers.” Presented with Ryan Frasch, Taylor Kahny, and Karen Kappe. Instructional Design Working Group Meeting, December 5, 2019.
2018 “Lessons Learned from a Year with Blueprint Courses.” Instructional Design Working Group Meeting, September 17, 2018.
2018 “Building a Knowledge Base from a Blog: Redesigning the Canvas at Penn Site.” Presented with Clay Colmon, Anna Kent, Rebecca Moulder, and Joseph Scaffner. Penn IT Staff Convention, May 15, 2018.
2017 “Strategies for Building Student-to-Student Support,” Lightning Round, Instructional Design Working Group Meeting, November 28, 2017.
2017 “Communication Matters: Power, Prestige, and Politeness at Work,” Wharton Computing Quarterly Meeting, July 19, 2017.
2017 “Self-Advocacy & Confronting Workplace Communication Challenges,” Women of Wharton-IT Meeting, June 19, 2017.
2017 “Life After Scantron.” Presented with Elizabeth Scheyder, Rich Cardona, and Christine Droesser. Penn IT Staff Convention, May 25, 2017.
2016 “There’s an ‘I’ in Collaboration, but it’s Lower-Case: The CDWG.” Presented with Joseph Schaffner, Angelina Conti, Rebecca Moulder, and Min Zhong. Penn IT Staff Convention, May 20, 2016.
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, March 29, 2004.
Awards, Honors, Grants, & Fellowships
2019 Models of Excellence Honorable Mention, University of Pennsylvania, for the Wharton New Undergraduate Experience team.
2018 College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) Course Development Stipend, University of Pennsylvania, for developing Fairy Tales Online.
2016 College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) Course Development Stipend, University of Pennsylvania, for developing Introduction to Folklore Online.
2015 Intellectual Heritage Program Faculty Grant for Scholarly Activity, Temple University to participate in the International Association for Fantastic in the Arts annual conference, Orlando, Florida
2014 Intellectual Heritage Program Faculty Grant for Scholarly Activity, Temple University to participate in the Popular Culture Association/American Studies Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Intellectual Heritage Program Faculty Grant for Scholarly Activity, Temple University to participate in the Popular Culture Association/American Studies Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
2012 Intellectual Heritage Program Faculty Grant for Class Activity, Temple University to subsidize admission fee to Mütter Museum for two sections of Mosaic 1
2012 School of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to participate in The Grimm Brothers Today: Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Its Legacy 200 Years After, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Graduate Student Travel Stipend, American Folklore Society, to participate in the American Folklore Society annual meeting, Bloomington, Indiana
2011 Philadelphia Experience (PEX) Partnership Stipend, General Education Program, Temple University, spring 2011, to develop an assignment with the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
2011 School of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania to participate in the American Folklore Society annual meeting, Bloomington, Indiana
2010 Kenneth Goldstein Fieldwork Award, Graduate Program in Folklore & Folklife, University of Pennsylvania
2010 School of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, to participate in the American Folklore Society annual meeting, Nashville, Tennessee
2009 GAPSA Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, University of Pennsylvania, to participate in the Fairy Tale after Angela Carter Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
2008 School of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania to participate in the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky
2008 Critical Writing Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2008–2009
2007 GAPSA Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, University of Pennsylvania, to participate in the American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Meeting, Quebec, Canada
2005 GSAC Travel Grant, Graduate Student Activities Council, University of Pennsylvania, to participate in ISFNR 14th Congress, Tartu, Estonia
2003 William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2003–2008
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