Katy Clune, a first-year student in the department’s MA program in Folklore has received a scholarship to attend The Textile Museum’s Fall Symposium in Washington, D.C. this October 12-13. This year’s symposium is titled “From Village and Court to Global … Continued

Professor William Ferris’s new book The Storied South continues to receive accolades. Recent reviews and posts appeared into the The Atlanta Journal Constitution and other publications including: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2013/09/qa-with-bill-ferris-about-his-new-book-the-storied-south-voices-of-writers-and-artists and http://www.npr.org/2013/08/10/209496245/contested-memories-find-common-ground-in-the-storied-south Read on to learn more about Professor Ferris’s influences: http://uncpressblog.com/2013/09/10/william-ferris-comfort-in-my-mothers-stories/

Michael D. Green   Michael David Green, Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History at the University of North Carolina, died at Duke University Hospital on August 23, 2013, at the age of 72. He suffered from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis … Continued

Professor Bill Ferris’s new book, The Storied South, has debuted with great fanfare. An Okra Pick for the fall by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) as the best in new Southern writing, The Storied South was also featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition: … Continued

Professors Bill Ferris and Malinda Maynor Lowery are featured in the South Writ Large just published by the Global South Working Group: http://southwritlarge.com

The Oxford American profiles Folklore’s Reed Turchi with a shout-out to Professor Bill Ferris. “As a college student at the University of North Carolina, Reed Turchi was a folklore student and an occasional musician, but the driving, rhythmic propulsion of … Continued

Professor Bill Ferris’s new book, The Storied South, receives words of praise in Garden & Gun. 

Truth’s Ragged Edge by Distinguished Professor Philip Gura continues to reap praise: “a nimble synthesis of a vital period in literary history, tracing our homegrown novel’s evolution from morality tale to self-aware interiority, traversing and incorporating the countless currents of … Continued

Our Folklore graduate alums continue to turn up the heat in the kitchen and put the most delectable treats on the table. Read Sara Camp Arnold’s “On the Road with the Southern Foodways Alliance” in the Oxford American: http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/jun/10/road-sfa-north-carolina/

Chris Fowler writes, “‘Local,’ ‘free-range,’ and ‘organic’ are buzzwords around the ivory tower. I wanted to see what these things meant where the rubber meets the road. I looked towards my home in rural eastern North Carolina to explore these … Continued