Publications
Research Writing
“Growing Environmental Communication: Expressive Culture, Civic Ecology, and Slow Activism in Southern West Virginia.” Journal of American Folklore, Volume 138.548. 2025 (forthcoming).
“Folklore of Appalachia.” A chapter for Accessible Appalachia: An Open-Access, Introductory Textbook in Appalachian Studies. Deann Allen, Lisa Day, Jacob Johnson, James Maples, Valerie Miller, and Erin Presley, eds. Eastern Kentucky University Libraries. 2024. Written with Sarah Craycraft, Cassie Rosita Patterson, and Sydney Varajon.
“Ethnographic Collections in the Classroom: Teaching Research and Composition Through Community-Centered Archives.” Journal of Folklore and Education, Volume 10.1:58-63. 2023. Written with Katherine Borland and Danille Elise Christensen.
“Framing the Flood: Strategic Environmental Storytelling in Appalachia.” A chapter for Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century. Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins, eds. University Press of Mississippi. 2023.
“Eastern Kentucky Flood Donations.” Southern Cultures, Vol 29, No 3. 2023.
“‘Something too pure/ is killing us’”: Opioid-Addiction Porn, Endurance, and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Resilience.” A chapter for The Opioid Epidemic and U.S. Culture. Travis D. Stimeling, ed. West Virginia University Press. 2020.
“Redneck Memes as an Appalachian Reclamation of Vernacular Authority, Language, and Identity.” A chapter for Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century. Kirk Hazen, ed. West Virginia University Press. 2020.
“Continuity and Change for English Consonants in Appalachia.” Coauthored with K. Hazen, J. Daugherty, and M. Vandevender. A chapter for Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress. Rebecca Adkins Fletcher and William Schumann, eds. University Press of Kentucky. 2016.
Public and Other Writing
“Foreword: Belief Lore in Appalachian Tales.” Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers. Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, eds. University of Kentucky Press. 2024 (in press, September 2024).
“Review: Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia by Emily Hilliard.” Journal of Folklore Research. 2023.
“Cliches May Grate Like Nails on a Chalkboard, but One Person’s Cliche Is Another’s Sliced Bread.” Coauthored with Kirk Hazen. The Conversation. 2021.
“Belief Lore, Mothman, and Our Changing World.” 100 Days in Appalachia: Creators and Innovators Newsletter. West Virginia University Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and The Daily Yonder of the Center for Rural Strategies in Kentucky. 2020.
“Customary Practices and Honoring the Dead.” 100 Days in Appalachia: Creators and Innovators Newsletter. West Virginia University Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and The Daily Yonder of the Center for Rural Strategies in Kentucky. 2020.
“Material Lore and Public Health.” 100 Days in Appalachia: Creators and Innovators Newsletter. West Virginia University Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and The Daily Yonder of the Center for Rural Strategies in Kentucky. 2020.
“Verbal Lore: How Our Scary Stories Can Protect Us.” 100 Days in Appalachia: Creators and Innovators Newsletter. West Virginia University Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and The Daily Yonder of the Center for Rural Strategies in Kentucky. 2020.
“Our Appalachian Folklore.” 100 Days in Appalachia: Creators and Innovators Newsletter. West Virginia University Reed College of Media, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and The Daily Yonder of the Center for Rural Strategies in Kentucky. 2020.
“Richard L. Davis.” Listening for Voices of Emancipation in Rendville Cemetery. Rendville Historical Preservation Society and the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University. 2020.
“Choreography of Light and Glass—W.Va’s Professional Dance Company.” West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Inside Appalachia. 2020.
“Tried and True Advice from the Field.” Coauthored with Sarah Craycraft and Sydney Varajon. Folklore Student Association and the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University. 2020.