#folklorists — Public Fediverse posts

Delighted that this is now published (open access) in TFH: The Journal of Folklore and History. It started life as a 90th birthday present for the great Jacqueline Simpson, and hopefully hasn't lost too much of the spirit that motivated it in the first place.

https://journals.psu.edu/folklorehistorian/article/view/17/17

#folklore #folklorists #folkloristics #FolkloreSociety @folklore

I've pinned and reboosted my #introduction, but I thought I'd have another bash round the potted summary of hashtags as I try to reconnect with stuff lost in the past few days.

#folklore is pretty much the most important to me - I'm an #academic #folklorist, do #fieldwork, think & write about #folkloristics, and really really REALLY like hanging out with/listening to other #folklorists.

I started off with #folk, #folksong, #folkmusic, ended up doing a PhD on #ghostlore #ghosts #ghost but love/am interested in all sorts of stuff, like #cannibalism, #rats, #folkhorror

Other important things:
#surrealism #fantomas #Dowland #Classics #Berlioz

Live on #isleofwight, like at the end of Day of the Triffids.

This page of curated lists of #academics on Mastodon, links to groups and discipline specific instances/communities is incredibly helpful and worth bookmarking.

It throws up a familiar problem. #Folklore, as my wonderful MA tutor Julia Bishop put it, is something of a disciplinary Golden Child, at the margins/interstices of other disciplines, which has tended to marginalise its institutional position.

I'm not surprised, then, that there isn't a dedicated list for #folklorists or a #folkloristics-based instance. I'm quite comfortable with knowing that we're out there, getting on with our stuff, in other departments. But hooking up, seeing each other - that'd be a good thing too.

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon