Presentations
Conference Papers
“Folklore and the Environment in the Coastal American South” (discussant and co-organizer). American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. November 2023Publications
“The Taming of Mothman: Cute-ification and Marketization of Cultural Forms in Appalachia.” With Sarah Craycraft. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. November 2023. Portland, OR.
“Networks of Care and the Climate Crisis: A Transnational Reading of Flood Response in Appalachia and Central Bulgaria.” Presented with Sarah Craycraft. Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference. March 2023. Athens, OH.
“Youth Recycling, Environmental Stewardship, and Slow Activism in Southern West Virginia.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 2022. Tulsa, OK.
“Uncovering Rhetorics of Blame: Environmental Justice and Appalachian Literature.” Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference. March 2022. Morgantown, WV.
“‘My Third Hundred-Year Flood’: Climate Change, Extraction, and Livability in Wyoming County, West Virginia.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 18-20, 2021. Virtual.
“Framing the Flood: Environmental Memory as Strategic Resistance in Appalachia.” Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) Annual Congress. June 19-24, 2021. Virtual.
“Beyond the Flood: Appalachian Writer-Activism and Strategic Environmental Storytelling for a Livable Future.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 13-17, 2020. Virtual.
“Defining Redneck Through Memes & Folklore in Appalachia.” Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference. March 12-15, 2020. Lexington, KY. Canceled due to COVID-19.
“‘Johnny’s Gonna Fight:’ Extractive Ethnography and Shared Authority in Interpreting a Contemporary Ballad” (chair). With ballad writers Michael Gallimore and Curtis Lovejoy. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 16-19, 2019. Baltimore, MD.
“‘Something too pure/ is killing us’: Opioid-Addiction Porn, Endurance, and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Resilience.” Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference. March 14-17, 2019. Asheville, NC.
“Redneck Solidarity and Selective Resistance: Material Performance and Coal Legacies of the West Virginia Teacher Strike.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 17-20, 2018. Buffalo, NY.
“Researching, Returning, and Resituating: Navigating the Borders Between Home and the Academy.” With Sarah Craycraft, Sophia Enriquez, and Sydney Varajon. Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference. April 5-8, 2018. Cincinnati, OH.
“Them Girls Shake It:” Affrilachian Poetry as Social and Environmental Justice Performance Activism.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 18-21, 2017. Minneapolis, MN. Virtual presentation.
“Fairytales of Trash and Transgression: How Storytelling Can Build Better Relationships between Communities and Service Workers.” Appalachians/Carpathians: Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions Conference. September 19-22, 2017. Yaremche & Rakhiv, Ukraine.
“Trans-experience and Trans-corporeality in Women’s Occupational Folklore.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference. June 20-24, 2017. Detroit, MI.
“Encountering Environmental Folklife: Trans-Methods & Forms for the Intersectional Anthropocene.” With Jess Lamar Reece Holler. The Futures of American Folkloristics Conference. May 18-20, 2017. Bloomington, IN.
‘‘Coal Dust in the Wound: Ghostly Laborlore as an Appalachian Response to Trauma.’’ Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference. March 9-12, 2017. Blacksburg, VA.
“Moral Geography of the Coalfields Expressway.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 19-22, 2016. Miami, FL.
“The Sociophonetics of Z Devoicing.” With Kirk Hazen, Emily Vandevender, Kiersten Woods, and Margery Webb. American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. January 7-10, 2016. Washington D.C.
“Speaking with the Silenced: Unquiet Ecologies in the Appalachian Writings of Denise Giardina.” The Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference. February 26-28, 2015. Lexington, KY.
Invited Talks and Panels
“Emily Hilliard in Conversation with Jordan Lovejoy.” Discussant for Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia. Center for the Study of the American South, Department of American Studies, and University of North Carolina Press. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2023.
“Shakespeare and Adaptation.” Invited panelist for a community discussion of Much Ado About Nothing. Playmakers Repertory Company. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2023.
“Iron Water.” Invited talk for the Leslie Center for the Humanities’ “Affective Currents: Moving the Environmental Humanities” Institute. Dartmouth College. 2023.
“Folklore’s Intervention: Ethnography, Engagement, and Expressive Culture as Tools for Environmental Justice.” Invited talk for the Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Wake Forest University. Spring 2023.
“Engaged Ethnography.” Invited talk for Dr. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth’s “Introduction to Folklore” course. Department of Comparative Studies. Ohio State University. Spring 2023.
“Balancing Fieldwork and Community Work.” Invited speaker for a fieldwork and ethnography panel. The Center for Folklore Studies. The Ohio State University. Spring 2021.
“Our Appalachian Folklore.” Live interview and Q&A session with 100 Days in Appalachia. West Virginia University Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and The Daily Yonder of the Center for Rural Strategies in Kentucky. Autumn 2020.
“Folklore and Storytelling in Appalachia.” Folklore Roundtable. Sparks & McNeill Creative Consultations. Autumn 2020.
“Redneck Memes as an Appalachian Reclamation of Vernacular Authority, Language, and Identity.” Invited talk for Dr. Kirk Hazen’s “English in Appalachia” course. The Department of English. West Virginia University (virtual). Spring 2020.
“Folklore: Documenting the Material.” Inside Appalachia Folkways Reporting Corp Training. West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Pipestem Resort State Park. Pipestem, WV. Spring 2019.
“Using MovieCaptioner for Transcription.” Invited presentation for Dr. Katherine Borland and Dr. Cassie Patterson’s Ohio Field School course. The Center for Folklore Studies. The Ohio State University. Spring 2018.
“Rural and Urban Experiences.” Invited talk with Sarah Craycraft and Raven Lynch for the Educational Service Center of Central Ohio’s Mosaic: Experiential Learning in the Humanities program. Columbus, Ohio. Spring 2017.
“The West Virginia Dialect Project.” Invited talk for Dr. Dorothy Noyes’ “Regional Cultures in Transition: Appalachia, Louisiana, and the Texas Border Country” course. The Department of English. The Ohio State University. Spring 2016, 2017.
“The Appalachian Dialect.” Invited talk for Dr. Cassie Patterson’s Independent Appalachian Studies course. The Center for Folklore Studies. The Ohio State University. Autumn 2015.