Derek Agard Distinguished Lectures in Folklore, 2024-

Series I: Lecture Recordings, 2024

• Tom Mould, Butler University, 2024-09-26

  Tom Mould (he/him) is Professor of Anthropology and Folklore. He received his BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MA and PHD in Folklore from Indiana University. Mould is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society (AFS) and has served on the AFS Executive Board, Chaired the AFS Media and Public Outreach Committee, and serves on the Advisory Boards for the Journal of Folklore Research, and the Mormon Studies Book Series at Farleigh Dickinson University Press.

  Before coming to Butler in 2019, he was the J.Earl Danieley Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at Elon University where he taught for 18 years and served in various roles including Director of the Honors Program, Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, and Director of PERCS: The Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies.

  Tom Mould gives a talk on "Contemporary Legends in a Polarized World."

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    Location: Series I: Lecture Recordings, 2024 / Tom Mould, Butler University, 2024-09-26
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  • Description: Video recording of Jan Brunvand receiving award via Zoom

    The award was given as part of the lecture event.

    Location: Series I: Lecture Recordings, 2024 / Tom Mould, Butler University, 2024-09-26
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• Maria Tatar, Harvard University, 2025-09-23

  Abstract: What kinds of cultural work do fairy tales do for us? Riddles wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, these stories are forever shape-shifting, thwarting our efforts to extract straightforward messages, morals, and meaning. Is Red Riding Hood an innocent victim, a ruthless assassin, a charming flirt, or all of the above? Fairy tales have always taken up vexing cultural contradictions, and we are now turning to an expanded, "decolonized" canon to probe the messy realities of the Anthropocene and of human experience in general. Maria Tatar is a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows and the Emerita Professor of Folklore & Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures. The author of The Heroine with 1001 Faces, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, Classic Fairy Tales, and other volumes, she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, NPR, the BBC, and other media outlets. This event is part of The Derek Agard Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series.

  Maria Tatar gives the talk "Trouble Brewing in "Once Upon a Time": How Fairy Tales Change (with) Us."

  Professor Tatar received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her teaching and research interests include Weimar Germany, German Romanticism, folklore, children's literature, and cultural studies. She serves on degree committees in Folklore and Mythology as well as in History and Literature.

  The author of books on the Brothers Grimm and on fairy tales (The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, Off with Their Heads, Secrets beyond the Door), she has also published Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature and Lustmord, which explores sexual violence in the literature, film, and art of the Weimar period in Germany. She is the editor of Classic Fairy Tales, as well as of The Annotated Brothers Grimm and The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen. Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood was published in 2009 with W.W. Norton. She is a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows.

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    Location: Series I: Lecture Recordings, 2024 / Maria Tatar, Harvard University, 2025-09-23
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    Location: Series I: Lecture Recordings, 2024 / Maria Tatar, Harvard University, 2025-09-23