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Carl Lindahl

University of Houston, English, Faculty Member

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Carl Lindahl is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, a Folklore Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and an internationally recognized authority in folk narrative, folktales and legends, festivals and celebrations, folklore fieldwork, medieval folklore, traditional healing strategies, and ways in which folk cultures seek and exercise covert power. He has more than 200 publications, including the books Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita (2013), American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (2004), Perspectives on the Jack Tales (2001), Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia (2000), Cajun Mardi Gras Masks (1997), Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana (1997), Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales (1987). His co-authored book, We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrrating Disaster and Recovery, will appear in 2022.
In 2005 he founded Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston [SKRH], the world's first project in which disaster survivors have taken the lead in documenting fellow survivors' experience of disaster. In 2014 he convened a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference bringing together ethnographers, disaster survivors, and public health specialists from seven countries to strategize ways in which to help survivors draw upon their traditional knowledge to become more active agents in their own recovery.

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Daniel Boone, Yahoos, and Yeahohs: Mirroring Monsters of the Appalachians,

North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, 2022

This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters ... more This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters in the Kentucky mountains from 1770 to the present, beginning with Daniel Boone's narratives of giants, conflated with stories of Yahoos borrowed from Swift's Gulliver's Travels; continuing through sightings and legends of the 19th and 20th centuries; and culminating with a tale focused on the mating of human male and an apelike female and the death of their half-human child.
A fuller abstract is provided here by book's editor, David J. Puglia

Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories (review)

Journal of American Folklore, 2004

The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaki... more The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaking. What may have satisfied a dissertation director, an advisory committee, and a small group of readers as regards contents, originality, structure, tone, and style of the issues discussed and the arguments advanced and made persuasive, often fails to impress a non-academic audience. The doctoral thesis submitted by Donald Braid and approved by Indiana University in 1996, with the title "The Negotiation of Meaning and Identity in the Narratives of the Travelling People of Scotland," may therefore well have raised an eyebrow or two when considered for publication outside its original domicile. Fortunately, the intellectual preciousness of the title did not deter the University of Mississippi Press from turning the thesis into a book called Scottish Traveller Tales, with the telling, but somewhat one-sided subtitle Lives Shaped through Stories, and the editors at the Press responsible for commissioning and then nursing it through the preparatory phase are to be congratulated on having had the foresight necessary to recognize this work' s potentially wider appeal. What has struck this reader from the beginning and has accompanied his reactions throughout his reading performance is the unmistakable fact that the narrative of this book is in itself a personal experience story and that consequently the frequent use of the first person singular pronoun in conveying the author' s voice is not incongruous or inappropriate but well suited in the voicing of his account. (This reviewer has not seen the original thesis, but if the dissertation director and other guiding hands in the Folklore Institute permitted this usage in the dissertation even in its academic guise, they should be applauded likewise for their tolerance.) In the kind of book which the thesis has become it does, of course, not jar at all. The autobiographical mode of presentation which this stylistic usage allows is, not unexpectedly, particularly noticeable in the "Introduction" (1-50) which, in the course of narrating the "genesis" of the book, relates how the physicist and engineering technician Donald Braid, having turned storyteller and investigator of oral storytelling, is directed by the legendary Hamish Henderson to Duncan Williamson, one of the great Traveller storytellers of our time, and-how is this for effectiveness?-sitting on his backpack by the roadside reading one of Duncan' s books in preparation for his first encounter, is observed by the storyteller himself who, approaching him, addresses him with the words, "What do you think of my book? I am Duncan Williamson" (5). No wonder Duncan becomes the door through which Braid enters the world of Scottish Traveller storytelling and also becomes his foremost mentor, both as a frequent performer of stories and a knowledgeable, thoughtful historian,

J D Suggs, 15 Tales with Introduction and Commentary by Carl Lindahl

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress , 2004

This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs... more This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs tales recorded ca 1952 by R M Dorson, constitute narratives 47-61 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 183-217. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, Notes.

Nine Tales Told by Joshua Alley of Jonesport, Maine in 1934

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress., 2004

Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklif... more Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklife Center collections.
This introduction of the remarkable Maine narrator Joshua Alley, followed by nine of Alley’s tales recorded in 1934, constitute narratives 62-70 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 219-250. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, notes.

Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol 1, Notes

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004

These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collection... more These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), annotating all of the tales published in volume 1 of this 2-volume work. Several sections of vol. 1 are also posted on Academia. These include the tales ofJ.D. Suggs (part 3, tales 47-61), Joshua Alley (part 4, tales 62-70), and Jane Muncy Fugate (part 6, tales 76-85).

Folktale Narrator Jane Muncy: Nine Folktales and an Autobiographical Account

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004

This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of C... more This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), Vol. 1, pp. 279-333. The notes can also be found on Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales, Vol 1, Notes.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Myth In Its Time

Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition, 1998

Three Ways Of Coming Back: Folkloric Perspectives on King Arthur's Return

King Arthur's Modern Return, 1998

Jane Muncy Fugate: Healing Tales for a Mountain Child and Troubled Adults

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Mar 17, 2004

This is section 6 of the two volume collection published by M.E. Sharpe in 2004. This section is... more

On the Borders of Oral and Written Art

Folklore and literaturen-the phrase links two fields of study, suggesting that they are similar e... more Folklore and literaturen-the phrase links two fields of study, suggesting that they are similar enough to be meaningfully compared. Specialists in each field, however, tend to view the other with ignorance ar;d suspicion; as a result, "Studies" of folklore and literature more often resemble warfare than scholarship. The time has come to call a truce and seek out the reasons for the war.

The School of Scottish Studies, an Island Community

are grateful to The Islands Book Trust for enabling online access to this publication. The Trust ... more

Why Study Medieval Folklore

Problems of Categories in Folk Prose

Ostensive Healing

Utah State University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2018

Daniel Boone, Yahoos, and Yeahohs: Mirroring Monsters of the Appalachians

Utah State University Press eBooks, Apr 15, 2022

Storytelling among Lowland Scots since 1800: An All-Female, Upper-Middle-Class Family Oral Tradition in the Context of Written Tale Collections

Scottish studies, Nov 19, 2018

In 1821, while on a summer visit to Rossie in Fife, seven-year-old Cecilia Margaret Douglas wrote... more In 1821, while on a summer visit to Rossie in Fife, seven-year-old Cecilia Margaret Douglas wrote home to her mother in Edinburgh describing a recent 'play day'. She named among the players a special nurse: 'Jeany Durie was also of the party[;] she is quite well and quite as pleasant as she was last year.' 1 This, with a few other lines from a later letter from Cecilia to her mother, provide the only written testimony yet found for the genesis of a family storytelling tradition spanning at least 150 years. Jeanie 2 was a riveting storyteller and a special figure for Cecilia, who listened well in her girlhood and then retold the nurse's tales long into life, sharing them with a young niece, Jemima Bannerman. Jemima, as impressed by 'Aunt Ceil's' tellings as Ceil had been by Nurse Durie's, fixed them in memory and finally wrote them down as an adult. Jemima then read the tales to her own niece, Kathleen Mary Turing Bannerman. In 1968, when Kathleen Bannerman, then in her seventies 3 , presented a typescript collection of five tales to the School of Scottish Studies, she was passing on a female storytelling tradition shared over four generations. Because the name of Jeanie Durie appears nowhere in the typescript, it is a tribute to the bonds formed between Jeanie and Ceil, Ceil and Jemima, and Jemima and Kathleen-and to the power of their collective love of story-that we know it today. The 'Bannerman Manuscript', as this tale cache has come to be known, appears a modest vessel for broad speculation, yet its twenty-one typed pages are unique in ways that bear close attention. Slight as these tales are, they witness a long, unbroken tradition of female

Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry ed. by Mark C. Amodio

Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1996

Review of: Traditional Romance and Tale: How Stories Mean, by Anne Wilson

Reviewed by Carl Lindahl Traditional Romance and Tale is irresponsible, underresearched, arbitrar... more Reviewed by Carl Lindahl Traditional Romance and Tale is irresponsible, underresearched, arbitrary, innovative, and insightful. The last two qualities will justify a reading for anyone with the patience to tolerate the first three. There are some valuable thoughts here, and the reader who recognizes that Wilson is telling only half the story will be repaid many times over for the two hours required to work one's way through this little book.

Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord

Fabula, 2012

This three-day conference convened at Harvard University to honour two linked milestones in the r... more This three-day conference convened at Harvard University to honour two linked milestones in the research into oral traditions: the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales and the seventy-fifth of the untimely death of his mentor, Milman Parry, the originator of the oral-formulaic theory. David Elmer (Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature) organized the meeting and served as its host, together with the Parry Collection's two curators, Stephen A. Mitchell (Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore) and Gregory Nagy (Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies). The work of Parry and Lord, combining comparative, textual, and performancecentered approaches, has influenced an extraordinary range of scholars and specializations. Since Parry first recorded Serbo-Croatian heroic songs to support the bold assertion that the Homeric epics represent an essentially oral tradition, the oral-formulaic theory has proved a magnet and meeting place for Classicists, Indo-Europeanists, Slavicists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and innumerable scholars from other disciplines. The thirty-two invited presenters provided testimony to the enduring reach and influence of Parry and Lord. The conference honoured both the theory's roots and its far-flung branches. True to the ground comparison on which the theory builds-the illumination of ancient Greek epic via study of contemporary Slavic performance-more than half of the presenters were specialists in ancient Greek or modern Slavic tradition or, in the case of John Miles Foley and David Elmer, both. Representing the ancient traditions that Parry and Lord sought to illumine were thirteen specialists in the Greek classics. Eight presenters were steeped in the Slavic traditions that inspired Parry and Lord's fieldwork. The others demonstrated the long reach of Parry and Lord by examining the oral arts of vastly diverse international performance traditions. 1

Survivor to Survivor: Katrina Stories from Houston: Recording Katrina: The Survivor Duet

Callaloo, 2006

Daniel Boone, Yahoos, and Yeahohs: Mirroring Monsters of the Appalachians,

North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, 2022

This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters ... more This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters in the Kentucky mountains from 1770 to the present, beginning with Daniel Boone's narratives of giants, conflated with stories of Yahoos borrowed from Swift's Gulliver's Travels; continuing through sightings and legends of the 19th and 20th centuries; and culminating with a tale focused on the mating of human male and an apelike female and the death of their half-human child.
A fuller abstract is provided here by book's editor, David J. Puglia

Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories (review)

Journal of American Folklore, 2004

The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaki... more The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaking. What may have satisfied a dissertation director, an advisory committee, and a small group of readers as regards contents, originality, structure, tone, and style of the issues discussed and the arguments advanced and made persuasive, often fails to impress a non-academic audience. The doctoral thesis submitted by Donald Braid and approved by Indiana University in 1996, with the title "The Negotiation of Meaning and Identity in the Narratives of the Travelling People of Scotland," may therefore well have raised an eyebrow or two when considered for publication outside its original domicile. Fortunately, the intellectual preciousness of the title did not deter the University of Mississippi Press from turning the thesis into a book called Scottish Traveller Tales, with the telling, but somewhat one-sided subtitle Lives Shaped through Stories, and the editors at the Press responsible for commissioning and then nursing it through the preparatory phase are to be congratulated on having had the foresight necessary to recognize this work' s potentially wider appeal. What has struck this reader from the beginning and has accompanied his reactions throughout his reading performance is the unmistakable fact that the narrative of this book is in itself a personal experience story and that consequently the frequent use of the first person singular pronoun in conveying the author' s voice is not incongruous or inappropriate but well suited in the voicing of his account. (This reviewer has not seen the original thesis, but if the dissertation director and other guiding hands in the Folklore Institute permitted this usage in the dissertation even in its academic guise, they should be applauded likewise for their tolerance.) In the kind of book which the thesis has become it does, of course, not jar at all. The autobiographical mode of presentation which this stylistic usage allows is, not unexpectedly, particularly noticeable in the "Introduction" (1-50) which, in the course of narrating the "genesis" of the book, relates how the physicist and engineering technician Donald Braid, having turned storyteller and investigator of oral storytelling, is directed by the legendary Hamish Henderson to Duncan Williamson, one of the great Traveller storytellers of our time, and-how is this for effectiveness?-sitting on his backpack by the roadside reading one of Duncan' s books in preparation for his first encounter, is observed by the storyteller himself who, approaching him, addresses him with the words, "What do you think of my book? I am Duncan Williamson" (5). No wonder Duncan becomes the door through which Braid enters the world of Scottish Traveller storytelling and also becomes his foremost mentor, both as a frequent performer of stories and a knowledgeable, thoughtful historian,

J D Suggs, 15 Tales with Introduction and Commentary by Carl Lindahl

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress , 2004

This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs... more This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs tales recorded ca 1952 by R M Dorson, constitute narratives 47-61 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 183-217. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, Notes.

Nine Tales Told by Joshua Alley of Jonesport, Maine in 1934

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress., 2004

Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklif... more Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklife Center collections.
This introduction of the remarkable Maine narrator Joshua Alley, followed by nine of Alley’s tales recorded in 1934, constitute narratives 62-70 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 219-250. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, notes.

Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol 1, Notes

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004

These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collection... more These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), annotating all of the tales published in volume 1 of this 2-volume work. Several sections of vol. 1 are also posted on Academia. These include the tales ofJ.D. Suggs (part 3, tales 47-61), Joshua Alley (part 4, tales 62-70), and Jane Muncy Fugate (part 6, tales 76-85).

Folktale Narrator Jane Muncy: Nine Folktales and an Autobiographical Account

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004

This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of C... more This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), Vol. 1, pp. 279-333. The notes can also be found on Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales, Vol 1, Notes.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Myth In Its Time

Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition, 1998

Three Ways Of Coming Back: Folkloric Perspectives on King Arthur's Return

King Arthur's Modern Return, 1998

Jane Muncy Fugate: Healing Tales for a Mountain Child and Troubled Adults

American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Mar 17, 2004

This is section 6 of the two volume collection published by M.E. Sharpe in 2004. This section is... more

On the Borders of Oral and Written Art

Folklore and literaturen-the phrase links two fields of study, suggesting that they are similar e... more Folklore and literaturen-the phrase links two fields of study, suggesting that they are similar enough to be meaningfully compared. Specialists in each field, however, tend to view the other with ignorance ar;d suspicion; as a result, "Studies" of folklore and literature more often resemble warfare than scholarship. The time has come to call a truce and seek out the reasons for the war.

The School of Scottish Studies, an Island Community

are grateful to The Islands Book Trust for enabling online access to this publication. The Trust ... more

Why Study Medieval Folklore

Problems of Categories in Folk Prose

Ostensive Healing

Utah State University Press eBooks, Nov 1, 2018

Daniel Boone, Yahoos, and Yeahohs: Mirroring Monsters of the Appalachians

Utah State University Press eBooks, Apr 15, 2022

Storytelling among Lowland Scots since 1800: An All-Female, Upper-Middle-Class Family Oral Tradition in the Context of Written Tale Collections

Scottish studies, Nov 19, 2018

In 1821, while on a summer visit to Rossie in Fife, seven-year-old Cecilia Margaret Douglas wrote... more In 1821, while on a summer visit to Rossie in Fife, seven-year-old Cecilia Margaret Douglas wrote home to her mother in Edinburgh describing a recent 'play day'. She named among the players a special nurse: 'Jeany Durie was also of the party[;] she is quite well and quite as pleasant as she was last year.' 1 This, with a few other lines from a later letter from Cecilia to her mother, provide the only written testimony yet found for the genesis of a family storytelling tradition spanning at least 150 years. Jeanie 2 was a riveting storyteller and a special figure for Cecilia, who listened well in her girlhood and then retold the nurse's tales long into life, sharing them with a young niece, Jemima Bannerman. Jemima, as impressed by 'Aunt Ceil's' tellings as Ceil had been by Nurse Durie's, fixed them in memory and finally wrote them down as an adult. Jemima then read the tales to her own niece, Kathleen Mary Turing Bannerman. In 1968, when Kathleen Bannerman, then in her seventies 3 , presented a typescript collection of five tales to the School of Scottish Studies, she was passing on a female storytelling tradition shared over four generations. Because the name of Jeanie Durie appears nowhere in the typescript, it is a tribute to the bonds formed between Jeanie and Ceil, Ceil and Jemima, and Jemima and Kathleen-and to the power of their collective love of story-that we know it today. The 'Bannerman Manuscript', as this tale cache has come to be known, appears a modest vessel for broad speculation, yet its twenty-one typed pages are unique in ways that bear close attention. Slight as these tales are, they witness a long, unbroken tradition of female

Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry ed. by Mark C. Amodio

Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1996

Review of: Traditional Romance and Tale: How Stories Mean, by Anne Wilson

Reviewed by Carl Lindahl Traditional Romance and Tale is irresponsible, underresearched, arbitrar... more Reviewed by Carl Lindahl Traditional Romance and Tale is irresponsible, underresearched, arbitrary, innovative, and insightful. The last two qualities will justify a reading for anyone with the patience to tolerate the first three. There are some valuable thoughts here, and the reader who recognizes that Wilson is telling only half the story will be repaid many times over for the two hours required to work one's way through this little book.

Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord

Fabula, 2012

This three-day conference convened at Harvard University to honour two linked milestones in the r... more This three-day conference convened at Harvard University to honour two linked milestones in the research into oral traditions: the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales and the seventy-fifth of the untimely death of his mentor, Milman Parry, the originator of the oral-formulaic theory. David Elmer (Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature) organized the meeting and served as its host, together with the Parry Collection's two curators, Stephen A. Mitchell (Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore) and Gregory Nagy (Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies). The work of Parry and Lord, combining comparative, textual, and performancecentered approaches, has influenced an extraordinary range of scholars and specializations. Since Parry first recorded Serbo-Croatian heroic songs to support the bold assertion that the Homeric epics represent an essentially oral tradition, the oral-formulaic theory has proved a magnet and meeting place for Classicists, Indo-Europeanists, Slavicists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and innumerable scholars from other disciplines. The thirty-two invited presenters provided testimony to the enduring reach and influence of Parry and Lord. The conference honoured both the theory's roots and its far-flung branches. True to the ground comparison on which the theory builds-the illumination of ancient Greek epic via study of contemporary Slavic performance-more than half of the presenters were specialists in ancient Greek or modern Slavic tradition or, in the case of John Miles Foley and David Elmer, both. Representing the ancient traditions that Parry and Lord sought to illumine were thirteen specialists in the Greek classics. Eight presenters were steeped in the Slavic traditions that inspired Parry and Lord's fieldwork. The others demonstrated the long reach of Parry and Lord by examining the oral arts of vastly diverse international performance traditions. 1

Survivor to Survivor: Katrina Stories from Houston: Recording Katrina: The Survivor Duet

Callaloo, 2006

Mythos as MythUs: Facing and overcoming crises through traditional narrative from antiquity to the present. International summer school at the University of Athens (June 2023).

by Ioannis Konstantakos, George Katsadoros, Carl Lindahl, and licia masoni

The Mythos as MythUs summer school program studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to ... more The Mythos as MythUs summer school program studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as being humanity’s voice, long-shared, with which to respond to harsh realities; to times of crisis; and to distress that impacts entire communities. In such times of transition and upheaval myth and narrative serve to ameliorate the inimical stereotyping, bigoted notions, and segregation that these challenging circumstances inevitably bring. In its role of healing, narrative has been not just preserved but also transformed, in all its oral, written, digital, and, of late, even contemporary literary forms, not just in terms of its atavistic world of archaic symbolism but in fact most markedly through being called on in confronting, via poetic means, problems, ideas, and emotions that are communal as well as individual -- as a result of which transformative therapeutic dimension, narrative continues to update, on an ongoing basis, in altogether dynamic ways.

This Summer School is a blended-learning program that consists of an online preparation class and a ten-day live attendance summer school of face-to-face classes in Athens as well as fieldwork on the island of Antiparos, Cyclades, and five group and/or guided tours in and around Attica and Athens.

The program includes 9 modules divided into 3 groups, each focusing on a different topic:

Topic 1: Myth in Ancient Greek and other Ancient Cultures
Topic 2: The Role of Myth in Response to Dread, Disruption, and Disaster
Topic 3: Narrating in Modern and Contemporary Society

Each student will select a Topic of study on the basis of the module and syllabi descriptions provided below. The series of introductory, in-person lectures will include all students, but each module will have different preparatory work, readings, and seminars/workshops.

The Program is open to Bachelor's, Master and PhD international students, as well as Greek English-speaking ones, with an interest in myth and its contemporary research and applications, and a study background in Humanities and Social Sciences, focusing on Classics, Folklore Studies, History and Cultural Studies.

The instructors of the courses include world-famous scholars of Classics and Folklore, notably Carl Lindahl and William Hansen. Internationally recognized experts from Greece, Italy, the USA, and Sweden are also on the team: Marianthi Kaplanoglou, Aphrodite Nounanaki, Sophia Papaioannou, Ioannis Konstantakos (Athens), Christos Zafiropoulos (Patras), George Katsadoros (Univ. of the Aegean), Gail Cooper (USA), Camilla Asplund Ingemark, Dominic Ingemark (Uppsala), Licia Masoni (Bologna).

See more details on the website of the summer school:
https://sites.google.com/view/mythos-as-mythus

The period of applications has started and the final deadline is 10 March 2023. Cuncti adeste!

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