Folklore

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.

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

It’s another special Member Drive edition of the program and our guest is folklorist Lynne McNeill.

On this Valentine’s Day we're joined by Jeannie Thomas to talk about love spells, heartbreak rituals, a study about fruit flies and breakups, and anthropologist Helen Fisher’s studies on what happens to our brains when we fall in love.

Today we'll talk with UCLA Professor Patricia Turner discusses her latest book, Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century.

We're once again joined by USU English professors Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill to talk about folklore. On this episode we focus on the most popular memes and digital trends of last year.