Janet Harron

Assistant professor of folklore Sarah Gordon wishes more people would understand that the study of folklore isn’t a study of the past, or of purely old-fashioned things.

"Folklore is new, it’s constantly being created, and it’s adapting to new technologies and communication styles. It’s creepy clowns, it’s the Slender Man, it’s cosplay, it’s Facebook memes and Twitter threads, it’s protest signs and political slogans and survivor testimonial narratives."

Read more about Sarah and her research on the creation of place through stories, especially among the Indigenous people of northern Canada.