Hey, everyone!
I just wanted to spread the word that Libby Tucker and I are planning to begin work on a project about the folklore of folklorists in the coming months and would love to hear from the AFS community!  Of course, the collected data in such a project is of great interest, so if you have any stories, anecdotes, jokes-- heck, just about anything folkloric--about your fellow folklorists, the discipline itself, your own research's quirks; your own experiences, opinions, and/or beliefs (interpret however broadly or narrowly as you would like); pedagogical tips or narratives from university teaching/ service experiences; "student horror stories"; or suggestions for approaches to such collected material and their interpretation, feel free to drop me an email (tjblank@psu.edu) or post to this discussion forum.  Indeed, any and all input is greatly appreciated, and I'd whole-heartedly endorse posting and responding here in an effort to create a stimulating dialogue here in the AFS forums as well!

Thanks for your time and input!

All the best,
Trevor

Hi Trevor,

You will no doubt be aware of Metafolkloristica, the 1989 anthology of folklorists' humor bu Franz Kinder and Boaz the Clown.

Cheers,
Moira

Is this the same project that AFS is launching collecting interviews of folklorists or a different project?  I did interviews of folklorists who bridge the "imaginary divide" between academics and public sector work back when the AFS Newsletter was in hard copy.  I was planning to forward everything I could find of these interviews (tapes, transcripts, etc.) to the AFS project.  I did about 6 people I think altogether, including Kay Turner, Frank Proschan, Troyd Geist, Steve Siporin and some others I can't remember off-hand.  Not sure if there is an archive of old AFS newsletters somewhere but you could check out the edited interviews there; this would have been mid-late 1990s.

Thanks, Betty Belanus
BelanusB@si.edu

The AFS oral history project that Betty is asking about is a different, though related, project from that Trevor Blank and Libby Tucker are undertaking.  Find out about the AFS oral history project here.  Tim Lloyd

Yep!  Tim beat me to it, but I'd be delighted to hear any stories of your own or your colleagues :)

I have folklore exam parodies from IU I can share with you.