Current Graduate Students

The Department of Folklore offers three routes to the master's degree in Folklore:

The Department also offeres a doctoral degree in Folklore with courses, comps, and thesis:

There are often career reasons why a student will choose one or another of these routes. The department treats each route as an equivalent.

Folklore graduate courses: Fall 2023

For additional course information such as time, room number, and instructor, see our upcoming courses database


Survey of Folklore Genres and Processes (FOLK 6010)

Instructor: Daniel Peretti, dperetti@mun.ca


Field and Research Methods (FOLK 6020)

Instructor: Kelley Totten, ktotten@mun.ca


Folklore Theories (FOLK 6030)

Instructor: Cory Thorne, coryt2@mun.ca


Issues In Folkloristics: Folklore and Nationalism (FOLK 6050)

Instructor: Sarah Gordon, s.gordon@mun.ca


Public Sector Folklore (FOLK 6740)

Instructor: Jillian Gould, jgould@mun.ca


The Global & the Local (FOLK 6770)

Instructor: Cory Thorne, coryt2@mun.ca