[Folkserv] Congratulations --

[Borland, Katherine]

Go Amelia!  Many hearty congratulations!
Katey

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Congratulations to Dr. Amelia Mathews-Pett!!

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--to Dr. Amelia Mathews-Pett, who just defended her elegantly argued dissertation, Finding Televisual Folklore in the Supernatural Procedural. Amelia names the genre and traces its arc from The X-Files to Buffy to a wider body of television narrative. Integrating approaches from folklore and popular culture studies, she makes a case for this commercial genre not just as drawing on folklore, but as folklore in itself: negotiating rhetorics of belief and their consequences; imagining social Others and legitimating violence against them; transmitting and revising cultural knowledge. She also shows us this television genre as metacultural practice that competes with our own work as scholars: collecting, archiving, and assessing folkloric knowledge, and thereby constructing cultural authority for itself and its fans. Amelia’s committee consisted of Angus Fletcher, Merrill Kaplan, and, as co-chairs, Jared Gardner and Dorry Noyes.





Dorothy Noyes

Director, Mershon Center

Professor, English, Comparative Studies

The Mershon Center for International Security Studies

1010 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall

The Ohio State University

Columbus, OH 43210

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