SANDRA K. DOLBY

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. degree in Folklore, Indiana University , 1975

minors in English and Comparative Literature

M.A. degree in Folklore, Indiana University , 1973

B.A. degree in English, Manchester College , 1969

POSITIONS AND TITLES:

Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Program in American Studies, Indiana University, 2000-present

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, 1999-2002

Teaching Facilitator, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, 1996-present

Acting Director, American Studies, Indiana University, 1994-1995

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Folklore Institute, 1988-1994

Associate Professor of Folklore and American Studies, Indiana University, 1983-1999

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communications, College of DuPage , Glen Ellyn , Illinois , Fall semester 1992

Assistant Professor of Folklore, Indiana University, 1979-83

Assistant Professor of English, University of Houston, Texas, 1975-79

English Teacher, Huntington North High School , Huntington , Indiana , Grades 11-12, 1969-70

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS:

Indiana University Campus Writing Program Summer Writing-Teaching Grant, 2005

Indiana University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Academy , 2003

Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, 2003 and1997

Fulbright Roving American Studies Scholar in Norway , 2001-2002

Indiana Faculty Leadership Institute Participant, 2001, 2000

IU Instructional Development Fellowship, 1999

IU Campuswide Writing Program Summer Fellowship, 1993

Indiana Committee for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 1987

National Library of Australia Fellowship, Summer/Fall 1985

Indiana University PCIP Grant, Summer 1984

NEH Instructional Grant Participant, Summer 1983

Indiana University Summer Research Fellowship, 1980

University of Houston Summer Teaching Fellowship, 1978

University of Houston Research Initiation Grant, 1976

Graduate Editorial Assistantship, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, 1972-74

Graduated cum laude, Manchester College , 1969

SELECTED RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:

Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them . Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative . Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1989; reprint in press through Trickster Press, Bloomington .

“Legends, High School History Classes, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,”

Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore 31 (2005): 14-18.

"Folk Culture." In Encyclopedia of American Studies , ed. George Kurian et al. New York : Grolier Educational, 2001. Vol. 2, pp.181-184.

"Call It Tradition." American Quarterly 52 (2000): 585-591.

"Personal Experience Story." In Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature , ed. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce Rosenberg. Denver : ABC-CLIO Press, 1998. Pp. 504-506.

"Life Story." In Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature , ed. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce Rosenberg. Denver : ABC-CLIO Press, 1998. Pp. 380-82.

"Activist Pedagogy: Its Role in the Academy." Folklore and Education (Winter 1998): 1, 9, 12.

"Personal-Experience Story." 1996. In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia , ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. New York : Garland Publishing. Pp. 556-558.

"Essential Contributions of a Folkloristic Perspective to American Studies," Journal of FolkloreResearch 33 (1996): 58-64.

"Guest Editor's Introduction." Special Issue on "The Personal Narrative in Literature." Western Folklore 51 (1992): 1-4.

"Literary Objectives: Hurston's Use of Personal Narrative in Mules and Men ." Western Folklore 51 (1992): 51-63.

"Family Settlement Stories and Personal Values." In The Old Traditional Way of Life: Essays in Honor of Warren E. Roberts , ed. R.E. Walls and G. H. Schoemaker. Bloomington , IN : Trickster Press, 1989. Pp. 362-66.

"Contributions of Personal Narrative Research to North American Folkloristics." Fabula 29 (1988): 390-99.

"Critical Studies in Folklore Historiography." Western Folklore 47 (1988): 235-43.

"Sour Grapes: Fable, Proverb, Unripe Fruit." In Proverbia in Fabula: Essays on the Relationship of the Proverb and the Fable, ed. Pack Carnes. Bern : Peter Lang, 1987. Pp. 295-309.

"A Literary Folkloristic Methodology for the Study of Meaning in Personal Narratives ." Journal of Folklore Research 22 (1984): 45-69.

"A Comment on Kroeber's 'Scarface Vs. Scar-face.'" Journal of the Folklore Institute 18 (1981): 125-32.

"Narrative Genres: A Question of Academic Assumptions." Fabula 21 (1980): 82-87.

"A Quiltmaker and Her Art." In Indiana Folklore: A Reader , ed. Linda Dégh. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1980. Pp. 46-73.

"Style in Oral and Written Narratives." Southern Folklore Quarterly 43 (1979: 39-62.

"The Oral Personal Narrative in Its Generic Context." Fabula 18 (1977): 18-39.

"The Personal Narrative as Folklore." Journal of the Folklore Institute 14 (1977): 9-30.

"Cursing and Its Euphemisms: Power, Irreverence, and the Unpardonable Sin." Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 3 (1977): 54-68.

"The Local Character Anecdote." Genre 8 (1975): 283-302.

"Structuralism and Three Finnish Runes." Folklore Forum 6 (1973): 25-39.

 

SELECTED TALKS/PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS:

“What Arnold Lobel Knew about Fables—and What He Didn't.” American Folklore Society, Salt Lake City , UT , October 2004

“A Norwegian Tale in Children's and Fantasy Literature.” Hoosier Folklore Society, Terre Haute , IN , December 2003

“East o' the Sun: Constant, Variable, and the Cultural Frame of Reference,” American Folklore Society, Albuquerque , NM , October 2003

“Folklore and American Worldview.” Invited paper, Manchester College , Convocation series, October 2002.

“Self-Help Books and American Worldview,” paper presented at the American Studies Association of Norway meeting in Bergen , September 2001.

"Johnny Appleseed, Emanuel Swedenborg, and America 's First New Age," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention in Portland , OR , October 1998.

"Oral-Formulaic Composition and Beowulf ," public lecture introducing the play Ceremonies , based on the epic, Waldron Arts Center , Bloomington , IN , November 1997

"Activist Pedagogy: Its Role in the Academy," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Austin , Texas , October 1997

"Insights, Interpretations, and Ideas: Popular and Personal Philosophy in the Sermons of a United Methodist Minister," paper presented at the California Folklore Society Meeting in Santa Barbara , April 1997

"Modern Exempla: Personal Narratives and Anecdotes in the Sermons of a Contemporary United Methodist Minister," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Pittsburgh , PA , October 1996

"Essential Contributions of a Folkloric Perspective to American Studies," talk presented at the Symposium on Folklore in the Academy, Indiana University , Bloomington , April 1995

"Folklore and American Popular Nonfiction," paper presented at the California Folklore Society Meeting, Pasadena , April 1995

"Proverbs, Slogans, and Worldview in Popular Nonfiction," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Eugene , Oregon , October 1993

"Disney's Didactic Success, Then and Now: A Comparison of the Disney Studio's Animated Versions of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast ," paper presented at the California Folklore Society Meeting, San Diego , April 1993

"Personal Narratives in Popular Psychology," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Jacksonville , Florida , October 1992

"American Values and the Legend of Johnny Appleseed," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, St. Johns , Newfoundland , October 1991

"Personal Proverbs, Slogans, and Life Stories," paper presented to the California Folklore Society, Los Angeles , April 1991

"Stories, Self, and the Skill of Cultural Appreciation," invited lecture, Folklore and Education Conference, UCLA, March 1991

"Sub-types of the Personal Narrative," invited lecture presented at the Humanities Symposium in Celebration of Manchester College's Centennial, North Manchester , Indiana , April 1990

"Symbolic Equivalency in Handel's Setting of Jephtha's Vow," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Cambridge , MA , October 1988

"Trends in North American Personal Narrative Research," paper presented at the California Folklore Society Meeting, Berkeley , April 1988

"Family Settlement Stories," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Albuquerque , NM , October 1987

Keynote Speaker: "Proposal for the Professionalization of Folklore Research in Australia ," paper presented at the Conference on Folklore Research in Australia , National Library, Canberra , Australia , November 1985

"Folklore and the Personal Narrative," invited talk for the Folklore Colloquium at the University of Washington , Seattle , April 1985

"The Literary Legacy in George Webbe Dasent's English Translation of the Norwegian Tales," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, San Diego , CA , October 1984

"Folklore and Sex Role Stereotyping in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley ," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Nashville , TN , October 1983

"Stories of a Safe Adventure: Americans Living in Australia ," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Minneapolis , MN , October 1982

"Strategies of Style in True Stories," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, San Antonio , TX , October 1981

"Informal Personal Narratives," paper presented at a Conference on Theories of Narrative, Indiana University , Bloomington , November 1980

"The Transmission of Values to Children through Family Stories and Personal Narratives," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, October 1980

"Family Folklore and Community Projects," paper presented at a conference sponsored by the Indiana Communities Project: Folklore and Oral History in Indiana Communities, Bloomington , May 1980

"Creating the Play or Twisting the Source: John Millington Synge's Shadow of the Glen ," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, October 1979

"Morals, Maxims, Proverbs, and Meanings," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, October 1977

"The Personal Narrative in Its Generic Context," paper presented at the Modern Language Association National Convention, New York , December 1976

"Theme as a Structural Unit in Personal Narratives," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, October 1976

"The Personal Narrative as Folklore," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, New Orleans , LA , October 1975

"Style in Oral and Written Narratives," paper presented at the Modern Language Association National Convention, New York , December 1974

"The Local Character Anecdote," paper presented at the American Folklore Society National Convention, Eugene , OR , October 1974

"The Creative Use of Folklore in Literature: Camara Laye," paper presented at the Modern Language Association National Convention, Chicago , December 1973

PRIMARY AREAS OF TEACHING :

Folklore and Literature

Folk Narrative

Folklore Pedagogy

American Folklore

Australian Folklore