Dr. Holly Everett
Dr. Holly Everett
Education Building, Rm 4039B
Department of Folklore
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X8
Phone: 709-864-8409
Email: hjeverett@mun.ca
Holly Everett is cross-appointed with the School of Music. Her
research interests include belief, material culture, music and
song, occupational folklife, popular culture, and tourism. She is
an active member of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, the
American Folklore Society, and the Canadian chapter of the
International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Her
editorial work includes serving as English Language Book Review
Editor for Material Culture Review, on the editorial board
of Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island
Cultures, and the editorial committee of Newfoundland and
Labrador Studies. Her book on roadside memorials, Roadside
Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture, was published by the
University of North Texas Press.
Selected Publications:
"Harry Choates as Cajun Cultural Hero." Crossing Over: Fiddle
and Dance Studies from Around the North Atlantic 3. Ed. Ian
Russell and Anna Kearney Guigné. 93-104. Aberdeen: The
Elphinstone Institute, 2010.
"Vernacular Health Moralities and Culinary Tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador." Journal of American Folklore 122 (2009): 28-52.
Editor with Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye. Special issue, "In Honour of/Hommage à Peter Narváez," Ethnologies 30.2 (2008).
"A Welcoming Wilderness: The Role of Wild Berries in the
Construction of Newfoundland and Labrador as a Tourist
Destination." Ethnologies 29. 1-2 (2007): 49-80.
"'Passing Through Nature to Eternity': Roadside Crosses in
'America's Hometown.'" Proc. of First International Symposium
on Roadside Memorials on Roadside Memorials, June 2004,
University of New England, Armidale. Ed. Jennifer Clark. 119-139.
Armidale, Australia: EMU Press, 2007.
"Popular Music in Newfoundland and Labrador." The Encyclopedia
of Popular Music of the World. Ed. John Sheperd, et al. Part
II, Vol. 4. London: Continuum, 2005.
"The Association That I Have with This Guitar Is My Life: The
Guitar as Artifact and Symbol." Popular Music and Society
26 (2003): 331-350.
Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture. Denton,
TX: University of North Texas Press, 2002.
with Peter Narváez. "Me and the Devil: Legends of Niccolo
Paganini and Robert Johnson." Contemporary Legend 4 n.s.
(2001): 20-47.
"Roadside Crosses and Memorial Complexes in Texas."
Folklore 111 (2000): Cover, 91-103.