Dr. Cory Thorne
Dr. Cory Thorne
Education Building, Rm 4039C
Department of Folklore
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X8
Phone: 709-864-6211
Email: coryt2@mun.ca
Dr. Cory W. Thorne is a specialist on theory (folklore, critical,
and queer theory), popular culture, material culture, music,
migration, and Newfoundland. His dissertation, Come From Away:
Community, Region, and Tradition in Newfoundland Expatriate
Identity, is an ethnographic study of Newfoundlanders living
in Ontario and Virginia. Using critical regionalist theory, he
examines the relationship between land development patterns (such
as in suburbs) and folklore (as performed in the Newfoundland
diaspora), in the quest to create more culturally, economically,
and ecologically sustainable communities. Dr. Thorne is currently
working on his first book, an oral history of the Newfoundland
military bride community in Virginia.
