 Senior Instructor, EnglishOffice: IBS-5 Room 7 Telephone: 303-492-8328 E-mail: prestonc@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Folk and popular culture; women's literature; American ethnic literature; 18th- and 19th-century English literature
Education
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1986
B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1976
Publications
Books
Ed., Border Crossings: Legend, Literature, Mass Media, and Cultural Ephemera. International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, 2000
Ed., Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory. Garland Publishing, 1995
Co-ed. with Michael J. Preston, The Other Print Tradition: Essays on Broadsides, Chapbooks, and Other Ephemera. Garland Publishing, 1995
A KWIC Concordance to Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles". Garland Publishing, 1989
Co-ed. with Harold D. Kelling, A KWIC Concordance to Jonathan Swift's "A Tale of A Tub," "The Battle of the Books," and "A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, A Fragment." Garland Publishing, 1984
Co-ed. with Michael J. Preston, Urban Folklore from Colorado: Typescript Broadsides. UMI, 1976
Co-ed. with Michael J. Preston and L. Michael Bell, Urban Folklore from Colorado: Photocopy Cartoons. UMI, 1976
Essays
"Erotic Folklore," "Joke," "Local Legend," "Supernatural Legend," "Urban and Contemporary Legend," In Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife. Greenwood Press (2008): 146-148, 337-339, 351-352, 354-356, 356-359
"University Campus Legends: Student Tactics and Habitable Spaces." Contemporary Legend n.s. 7 (2004):137-172
“Disrupting the Boundaries of Genre and Gender: Postmodernism and the Fairy Tale.” Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches, ed. Donald Haase. Wayne State Univ. Press, 2004, 197-212
"Cross-dressing." Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. Ed. Serinity Young. Macmillan, 1999, 223-24
"Folklorists Do It Orally: The Cultural Appropriation and Socio-Sexual Politics of Verbal Play." Lore and Language, 16.1-2 (1998): 41-82
"Babysitting and The Man Upstairs: Negotiating the 'Politics of Everyday Fear.'" Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, n.s. 2 (1999):109-36
"Joke," "Erotic Folklore," and "Cultural Studies." Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, and Art. Ed. Thomas A. Green. ABC-CLIO, 1997, 471-75, 227-34, and 161-64
"Ballads." Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Gerald Newman. Garland Publishing, 1997, 39-40
"Cultural Studies," "Feminist Approaches to Folklore." American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. Garland Publishing, 1996, 183-85, 246-49
London's Flames Revisited: Rumor-Legend and the Negotiation of Political Agendas in 17th-Century England." Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 5 (1995):38-75
"'My Thing is My Own': Voices, Bodies, and Sexual Politics in Broadside, Drollery, and Oral Occupational Bawdy Song." In The Other Print Tradition: Broadsides, Chapbooks, and Other Ephemera. Ed. Cathy Lynn Preston and Michael J. Preston. Garland Publishing, 1995, 74-124
"Writing the Hybrid Body: Thomas Hardy and the Ethnographic 'Money Shot.'" Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory. Ed. Cathy Lynn Preston. Garland Publishing, 1995, 43-82
"'Cinderella' as a Dirty Joke: Gender, Multivocality, and the Polysemic Text." Western Folklore 53 (1994):27-50
With Michael J. Preston, "Lorena Bobbitt Bobbed It: News Becomes Faxlore." The Newsletter of the Folklore Society 19 (June 1994):17-18
"'The Tying of the Garter': Representations of the Female Rural Laborer in 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century English Bawdy Songs. " Journal of American Folklore 105 (1992):315-41
"The Way Stylized Language Means: Pattern Matching in the Child Ballads." Computers in the Humanities 23 (1989):323-32
"Narrative Performances in the Maternity Ward.: Folklore Women's Communication 2 (1987):171-76
With Michael J. Preston, "Things Better Left Unsaid: Photocopy Humor." Maledicta 5 (1982):171-76
"Folk Comparisons from Colorado." Western Folklore 25 (1976):175-208.
Editorial Positions
Editor, Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, 2001-2005
Selected honors and awards
President-elect, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
University Equity and Excellence Award, CU Boulder, 2000
Current projects
A book-length study of vernacular transgression and cultural constructions of space/place
A book-length study of folklore and contemporary literature