Dr. Martin Lovelace
Dr. Martin Lovelace
Education Building, Rm 4047
Department of Folklore
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X8
Phone: 709-864-8601
Email: martinl@mun.ca
Martin Lovelace's areas of research and teaching are in folk
literature, especially Märchen, and ballad, with an
emphasis on the relationship between these genres and social
reality. Atlantic Canada is an ideal context for work on this
theme, given the region’s long history of folklore
collection, rich archival holdings, and its continuing
opportunities to work with tradition-bearers.
Earlier work dealt with Christmas mumming; personal narrative,
especially life history and autobiography; the literature of
English rural life and work; and folk healing using charms. This
year he revisited the topic of charming, through new fieldwork and
MUNFLA research, and presented a paper "Immaterial Medicine:
Charmers and Their Communities in Newfoundland," at the conference
Charms, Charmers and Charming held in Bucharest, Romania,
June 24th-25th, 2010.
Recent Publications
“Unnatural Selection: Maud Karpeles’s Newfoundland
Field Diaries,” in Folk Song Tradition, Revival,
and Re-Creation. Eds. Ian Russell and David Atkinson.
University of Aberdeen: The Elphinstone Institute, 2004,
284-298.
“Jack and His Masters: Real Worlds and Tale Worlds in
Newfoundland Folktales,” Journal of Folklore
Research 38: 1-2 (2001), 149-170.
"'Tam Lin' in Newfoundland," in Ballad Mediations: Folksongs
Recovered, Represented, and Reimagined, eds. Roger deV.
Renwick and Sigrid Rieuwerts. B.A.S.I.S. Ballads and
Songs–International Studies 2. Trier, Germany:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2006, 19-26.
"Neighbours and Night Visits in the Song Repertoire of Clarence Blois," in Singing the Nations: Herder’s Legacy, eds. Dace Bula and Sigrid Rieuwerts. B.A.S.I.S. Ballads and Songs–International Studies 4. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008, 251-260.
