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WORK SAMPLES
Transcription
This is a partial transcription of an interview I conducted in May of 2015 with Loretta Mae Hughes. Though this interview was originally recorded for an undergraduate folklore assignment for Dr. Carolyn Ware, it served as the backbone of a graduate level paper entitled "Born with a Veil: A Supernatural Family History through Oral Tradition." I presented this paper at the Western Kentucky University Research Conference for Dr. Ann K. Ferrell’s Folklore Theory class in Spring 2017 and was awarded as the winner of my session among the four students presenting.
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To read the transcription, click here.
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Interview Sample
The following interview clip includes part of a discussion with Delaney Rockrohr, Chief Naturalist of Lost River Cave in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The central topic of discussion concerned aesthetic properties of ball pythons among circles of reptile breeders, owners, and animal education specialists. Our conversation contributed a great deal to my research paper for Dr. Michael Ann Williams's Folk Art and Technology course.
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Ball Python Interview - Emily R.
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Sample Field Notes
These are sample fieldnotes of an interview that I conducted in the Fall of 2015 for Dr. Erika Brady’s Folklore Fieldwork course. The interview was conducted with Mary Schubert, a Mammoth Cave National Park Ranger.
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National Register Nomination Draft
This is a draft of a National Register Nomination written for Dr. Michael Ann Williams’s Vernacular Architecture class in the Fall of 2016. The William Sledge House, or Aunt Jane Sledge-Clark House, meets National Register Criteria C, within the context of Log Dwellings in Warren County, Kentucky, 1873-1963. A single-pen, half-dovetailed notched house, the Sledge House exemplifies the most common log house form in Warren County (and in the Upper South generally) built in the late 19th century. The Sledge House is notable for its continued association with a single family who can provide a remarkable understanding of the history of the structure and insight into how these homes continued to be used well into the mid-20th century.
To view this draft, click here.
Work Samples: Service
Lesson Plan
In Dr. Timothy Evans’s Folklore and Education course, myself and two other students assembled three lesson plans built on traditional Bosnian domestic life. My contribution to the unit included an embroidery lesson plan on Zmijanje style embroidery, which as of 2004 gained UNESCO status as part of Bosnia’s cultural heritage. In par class requirements, I led this lesson for the students at the Montessori School of Bowling Green.
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Academic Paper
"'Have a Little Priest:' Cannibalism, Meat Pies, and Power in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd" is an academic paper exploring legend, contamination, food anxiety, class strife, gender and power as it is negotiated through the meat pies of Steven Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This paper was written for Dr. Ann K. Ferrell's Foodways class in the Fall semester of 2017.
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To read this paper, click here.
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