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Danille Elise Christensen received her doctorate from Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Her research focuses on the rhetorical uses of vernacular culture, using the lenses of intertextuality and performance to explore the social meanings of complex expressive forms. She's published on the interplay of genres and ideologies that emerge on football game day in Central Ohio and has become increasingly interested in the persuasive possibilities of digital and material media. Her most recent project is on how slack key guitar (kī hō 'alu) is rhetorically situated in contemporary Hawai'i and among Hawaiian Islanders residing in the continental United States. In 2010, Christensen was a Research Associate for the Civil Rights History Project, an oral history survey conducted under the auspices of the American Folklore Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and she has taught folklore, communication & culture, and American studies courses at Indiana University, Bloomington and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is currently Managing Editor of the Journal of Folklore Research.
Elaine J. Lawless has taught in the Folklore Studies Program at the University of Missouri for more than two decades. Her research and teaching specialties have focused on the oral narratives of women in religious settings, including testimonies and sermons, issues of human rights and social justice, and more recently with the narratives of battered women. She is the producer of the Troubling Violence Performance Project with Heather Carver, Performance Studies professor at MU, working with a troupe of students who perform narratives of abuse and battering as a means of exposing the taboo on speaking out about and preventing violence against women. Lawless has been named the Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina and Duke University for the academic year 2011-2012.
Amy Shuman is a professor of Folklore in the Departments of English, Anthropology, and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of two books on narrative, Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents and Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy, and, with Carol Bohmer, a book on political asylum, Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century. She is currently completing a book on Italian artisan stonecarvers who reproduce classical and Renaissance sculpture in marble.
Margaret Yocom has taught folklore since 1977 in the Department of English at George Mason University where she founded the Folklore Studies Program and the Northern Virginia Folklife Archive. She specializes in oral narrative, material culture, family folklore, gender studies, and folklore and creative writing. Active in public [End Page 247] folklore, she serves as curator of the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum, Rangeley, Maine. She has published books and articles from her fieldwork among her Pennsylvania German family, the Inuit of northwest Alaska, and the people in her primary fieldsite: the western mountains of Maine. Her poetry and literary non-fiction have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Beltway Poetry Journal, Friends Journal, Voices, and the anthology The Folklore Muse: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists. [End Page 248]
