Folklore

“The beauty of fairy tales is they are applicable in so many different disciplines,” a USU librarian said of the program, which will offer internships, student events, symposiums, and more.

In the 2026 Fife Honor Lecture at USU, professor Katherine Borland of Ohio State University’s Center for Folklore Studies, focused on miracle narratives. She joins us for the hour.

Intermountain Song Trails is a new oral history project exploring how songs travel across generations, families, and migration routes, from lullabies to work songs to church or scouting traditions.

For years, Utahns spun spooky stories about what lurked in this old canyon retreat. Its history harks back to the wealthy and accomplished, and its future is under construction.

Our guest today is folklorist Lynne McNeill. Lynne McNeill is an associate professor of folklore at Utah State University, as well as co-founder of and faculty advisor for the USU Folklore Club.

Today we’ll mark a decade of USU’s Farm in Literature and Culture course. Our guests include USU lecturers, professors, and a USU student who says the class has had a continuing influence on her life.

Lisa Gilman and Divine Irakoze met when Gilman stayed with Irakoze’s family in a Malawian refugee camp while working on a global ethnographic research project on arts initiatives by refugees.

On this episode, we take a look back at some of the most popular digital trends, memes, and folklore of 2024.

Folklorist and author Tom Mould was in Logan last week to give a lecture at Utah State University.

Cole Eisenhower’s mural keeps captivating Cache County figures’ stories alive.