Timothy R. Tangherlini

The Scandinavian Section and

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

UCLA

Box 951537

Los Angeles, CA. 90095-1537

(310) 825-7611 fax (310) 825-9754

tango@humnet.ucla.edu

Education:

1992 — Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Department of Scandinavian.

Fields: Folklore, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature, Old Norse Language

and Literature.

1986 — M.A., University of California, Berkeley. Department of Scandinavian.

Fields: Old Norse Language and Literature, Modern Literature.

1985 — A.B., Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Magna cum laude with highest honors in Folklore and Mythology.

Employment and Teaching Experience:

January 1, 2001-present— Chair, Scandinavian Section, UCLA.

July 1, 1999-present— Associate Professor. Scandinavian Section, Germanic Languages and Literatures; and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.

July 15, 2000-present—External Associate Professor. The Humanities Faculty, Københavns Universitet, Denmark.

July 15, 1999-July 15, 2000— Associate Professor (Temporary) and Director of Studies. Center for Folkloristik, Københavns Universitet, Danmark. (while on leave from UCLA)

September 2000-January 2001— Visiting Associate Professor. Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University. (while on leave from UCLA)

June 24-July 15, 2000 — Visiting Associate Professor of Ethnology. Högskolan på Gotland [Gotland University College]

July 1, 1998-June 31, 1999— Assistant Professor. Scandinavian Section, Germanic Languages and Literatures; and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.

1995-1998 — Assistant Adjunct Professor. Scandinavian Section, Germanic Languages and Literatures, UCLA.

1992-1995 — Visiting Assistant Professor. Scandinavian Section, Germanic Languages and Literatures, UCLA.

1986-1991 — Graduate Student Instructor. Department of Scandinavian. University of California, Berkeley.

1987-1988 — Visiting Researcher. National Museum, Seoul Korea.

1987 — Research Assistant. Department of Scandinavian. University of California, Berkeley.

1986 — Instructor. Uldum folkehøjskole.

Fellowships, Grants, Prizes and Honors:

2001—Office of Instructional Development, UCLA. Grant to further develop online archive of Korean and Korean American Folklore.

2000— Daesan Foundation Translation Grant. The Daesan Foundation, Seoul, Korea. With Jennifer M. Lee for the translation of Yi Chongjun’s “Your Paradise.”

2000— Outstanding Dictionary of Literary Biography Entry, The Editors of Bruccoli Clark Layman for entry on “Jeppe Aakjær.”

2000 — Associate Fellow. The Folklore Fellows. Finnish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1998 — Center for Pacific Rim Studies. Grant for project development: “Critical Geographies in the Pacific Rim.” Collaboration with Sallie Yea, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

1997 — Chancellor’s Committee on Instructional Improvement Programs Grant. Grant for development of on-line Korean / Korean American Folklore Archive.

1996 — Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award. Academic Senate, UCLA. Award for non-Academic Senate Faculty.

1995-present — Apple Academic Partners Program, Apple Computer, Inc. On-going grant for development of instructional technology.

1994-1995 — Conference Grant. Center for Korean Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies. University of California, Berkeley. Funding for regional conference on Korean Nationalism. With Hyung-Il Pai.

1991 — Regents Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation year fellowship.

1991 — Graduate Humanities Research Grant. University of California, Berkeley.

1991 — Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. Office of Graduate Student Instructor Training, Graduate Division. University of California, Berkeley.

1990 — American Scandinavian Foundation Fellow.

1990 — Graduate Humanities Research Grant. University of California, Berkeley. Support for field work in Korea.

1990 — Jean Steager Prize in Folklore. University of California, Berkeley.

1989 — Bernard Osher Foundation Fellow.

1987-1988 — Luce Scholar. The Henry Luce Foundation, New York. One of fifteen selected nationwide.

1985 — Regents Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley.

1985 — Einar and Eva Haugen Prize. Harvard University.

1985 — Walter W. Webster, Jr. Scholar. Harvard University.

1983, 1985 — Harvard College Scholar. Harvard University.

1984 — John Harvard Scholar. Harvard University.

Activities:

2001-2002 – Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA.

2001— Director and Asst. Director Search Committee, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA.

2000-2001— Research Consultant, “The Last Shamans,” National Geographic Specials.

2000-2004— Executive Committee, Scandinavian Section, The Modern Languages Association.

1999-present—IDP Committee, Folklore and Mythology, UCLA.

1999-present—Programming Advisory Committee, The Korean American Museum, Los Angeles.

1999-present—Advisory Board, Italian Oral History Institute, Los Angeles.

1998-1999— Dean’s Advisory Committee on Technology. Division of Humanities, College of Letters and Sciences, UCLA

1998 — Annual Conference Program Committee. American Folklore Society.

1997 — Research Consultant. “Communities and Cultural Heritage in Global Cities.” The Getty Research Institute and the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

1996 — Annual Conference Program Committee Co-Chair. California Folklore Society.

1996 — Research consultant. “Sirens of Cheju-Do.” Produced by Diana Lee. National Geographic Television. Documentary on Korean diving women.

1995-present — Film and Video Review Editor. Western Folklore.

1992-present — Undergraduate/Graduate Advising, Scandinavian Section. UCLA.

1992-1995 — Faculty Adviser. KAUSES (Korean-American United Students for Education and Service). UCLA.

1994 — Faculty Adviser. UC Storytellers.

1994 — Adviser. Oral History and Video Documentary Project, Korean-American Museum Inaugural Exhibit. Los Angeles, California.

1992-1995 — Fullbright-IIE Review Committee, UCLA.

1993, 1995 — Panel of Judges, VITAS: A Film Festival of Contemporary Folklife and Popular Culture. UCLA.

1986-1992 — Affirmative Action Representative. University of California, Berkeley.

Publications:

Books

Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Co-edited with Hyung-Il Pai. Korea Research Monograph 25. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1999.

Talking Trauma. Paramedics and Their Stories. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Interpreting Legend. Danish Storytellers and Their Repertoires. Milman Parry Studies in Oral Tradition. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Articles

“Ghost in the Machine: Supernatural Threat and the State in Lars von Trier's Riget.” Scandinavian Studies. 73(2001), 1-24.

“Remapping Koreatown: Folklore, Narrative and the Los Angeles Riots.” In, Built L.A. Folklore and Place in Los Angeles. Edited by Timothy R. Tangherlini. Special Issue. Western Folklore 58(1999), 149-173.

“Los Angeles Intersections (Folklore and the City).” In, Built L.A. Folklore and Place in Los Angeles. Edited by Timothy R. Tangherlini. Special Issue. Western Folklore 58(1999), 99-106.

Editor. Built L.A. Folklore and Place in Los Angeles. Special Issue. Western Folklore 58(1999).

“Heroes and Lies: Storytelling Tactics Among Paramedics.” Folklore 111(2000): 43-66.

“‘Who ya’ gonna call?’: Ministers and the Mediation of Ghostly Threat in Danish Legend Tradition.” Western Folklore 57, 153-78.

“Shamanist Myths of Cheju Island.” Translator. In Myths of Korea. Pp. 207-37. Peter S. Lee, ed. Korean Studies Series 4. Seoul: Jimoon Publishing, 2000.

“Jeppe Aakjær.” In, Twentieth Century Danish Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 214. Marianne Stecher-Hansen, ed. Pp. 3-13. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1999.

“Shamans, Students and the State: Politics and the Enactment of Culture in South Korea, 1987-1988.” In Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Hyung-Il Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini, ed. Korea Research Monograph 25. Pp. 126-147. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1999.

“Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity.” With Hyung-Il Pai. In Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Hyung-Il Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini, ed. Korea Research Monograph 25. Pp. 1-13. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1999.

“Barter and Games. Economics and the Supernatural in Danish Legendry.” Arv: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 1998, 54(1998): 41-62.

“The Case of K'ongjwi: Family Structure and Folktale in Korea.” In Folklore Interpreted. Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes. Regina Bendix and Rosemary Levy Zumwalt, ed. Pp. 265-290 New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.

“Uncertain Centers/Uncentered Selves: Postmodernism and the (re)Definition of Feminine in Anna (jeg) Anna and Baby.” Scandinavian Studies 67 (1995). 306-329.

“From Trolls to Turks: Change and Continuity in Danish Legend Tradition.” Identity and Legend in Scandinavia Special Issue. Scandinavian Studies 67 (1995). 32-62.

“Nordic Legends and the Question of Identity.” with John Lindow. Identity and Legend in Scandinavia Special Issue. Scandinavian Studies 67 (1995). 1-7.

Identity and Legend in Scandinavia. Co-editor with John Lindow. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies 67 (1995).

“Cinderella in Korea: Korean Oikotypes of AaTh510.” Fabula 35 (1995): 282-304.

“Storytelling Games and the Game of Storytelling: Social Norms and Legend in Nineteenth Century Denmark.” The 1994 John M. Olin Working Paper Series in Law, Economics and Institutions, Center for the Study of Law and Economics, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. (1995).

“Downward Mobility: Structure of Individual Search in Marie Grubbe and Anna (jeg) Anna.” Danske Studier (1991). 179-186.

“'It happened not too far from here...': A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization.” Western Folklore. 49:4 (1990). 371-390.

“Some Old Norse Hang-Ups: Ritual Aspects of Hávamál 134.” Mankind Quarterly 31:1-2 (1990). 87-108.

“The Comings and Goings of a Korean Grandfather: The Yôngdûng Kut Sequence of a Cheju Island Village.” With SoYông Park. Korean Studies 14 (1990). 84-97.

“New Years by the Sea.” Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch 63 (1988). 29-36.

“The Ritual Landscape of Sunshine Village, Cheju-Do Island, at Lunar New Years.” With SoYông Park. Korea Journal 28:5 (1988). 21-36.

“Ships, Fogs and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia.” Journal of American Folklore 101:400 (1988). 176-206.

Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles and Newsletter Publications

“Black Death.” In, Medieval Folklore. An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs and Customs. Edited by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow. Pp. 100-103. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

“Eddic Poetry.” In, Medieval Folklore. An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs and Customs. Edited by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow. Pp. 161-263. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

“Legend.” In, Medieval Folklore. An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs and Customs. Edited by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow. Pp. 587-593. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

“All the World’s Reward. Folktales Told by Five Scandinavian Storytellers. Edited by Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf.” Tradisjon 30 (2000), 37-9.

“Det døde barn i hoppegyngen. Moderne danske vandrehistorier. By Robert Zola Christensen.” Book Review. Arv 56 (2000), 207-8.

“Stories of Emergency Medical Responders.” In, Traditional Storytelling Today. An International Sourcebook. Edited by Margaret MacDonald. Pp. 428-433. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.

“Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality and Modernity. By Laurel Kendall.” Acta Koreana 1 (1998): 175-178.

“Marxist Approach.” In, Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Edited by Thomas A. Green. Volume 2, Pp. 532-536. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.

“Camp Arirang. Produced by Diana S. Lee and Grace Yoon Kyung Lee.” Western Folklore 56 (1997): 99-101.

“Folklore Fights the Nazis. Humor in Occupied Norway. By Kathleen Stokker.” Western Folklore 56 (1997): 182-184.

“Humor och kultur. Edited by Ulf Palmenfelt.” Humor 10 (1997): 515-517.

“The Origins of Scandinavian Drama. By Terry Gunnell.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 96 (1997): 298-300.

“Once Upon a Time: Approaches to Popular Folktale Collections.” Mid-America Folklore 44 (1996): 86-92.

“Legend.” American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Jan H. Brunvand, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. Pp. 437-439.

“Korean Americans.” American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Jan H. Brunvand, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. Pp. 425-427.

“Prolonged Echoes: Old Norse Myths in Medieval Northern Society. Volume 1. By Margaret Clunies Ross.” Scandinavian Studies 68 (1996): 510-513.

“The World Tree. Poems by Thorkild Bjørnvig.” Book Review. Scandinavian Studies 68 (1996): 115-117.

“Korean Folk-tales.” Book Review. Journal of Asian Studies 54 (1995): 856-858.

“Förställningar om maran i nordisk folktro.” Book review. Scandinavian Studies 66 (1994): 307- 309.

“The Ancient Egyptian ‘Tale of Two Brothers.’” Book review. Mid-America Folklore 22 (1994): 54-55.

“An Initiation Kut for a Korean Shaman.” Video review. Journal of American Folklore. 107 (1994): 433-435.

“International Folkloristics Update: Vietnam.” Newsletter of the American Folklore Society. 21 (1992).

Film and Video Productions

Talking Trauma. Storytelling Among Paramedics. Los Angeles: Traumatic Productions, 1994. Chicago: Picture Start, Inc.

Forthcoming publications and Works in Progress

Articles, Reviews, Translations, Encyclopedia Articles and Newsletter Publications

“Exploring Urban and Ethnic Folklore: Strategies in Research and Pedagogy.” In, Folklore Methodology Today. Anniki Kaivola/Bregenhøj and Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, ed. NNF Publications. Åbo: Åbo Akademi Forlag. Forthcoming.

“The Individual and Tradition: Folklore Methodology Today.” In, Folklore Methodology Today. Anniki Kaivola/Bregenhøj and Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, ed. NNF Publications. Åbo: Åbo Akademi Forlag. Forthcoming.

“Chisin Palpk, P’ungmul, Christian Surfers and ‘Slamming a ride’: Folklore and the Negotiation of Korean American Identity in Los Angeles.” Acta Koreana. Forthcoming 2001.

“Prinz als Wolf (AaTh 428).” Enzyklopädie des Märchens. Forthcoming 2001.

“‘How do you know she’s a witch?’: Witches, Cunning Folk and Competition in Denmark.” Western Folklore. Forthcoming 2001.

“Legends of Korea.” In Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Literature. Peter S. Lee et. al., ed. New York: Columbia University Press. Forthcoming Spring, 2001.

Film and Video Productions

Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community. With Stephen Epstein. Los Angeles: Traumatic Productions.

Unpublished Works

Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. On-line edition. Co-edited with Zoe Brovosky, Benjamin Stowell and John Lindow. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/scandinavian/leghome.html

Lectures

“Processes of Variation in Korean American Folkloric Expression.” American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, October 2000.

“Life on the Streets: Documenting Storytelling in an Urban Environment.” Tartu-NEFA Network, Estonian Literature Museum, April 27, 2000.

“Digitizing the Archive: The Evald Tang Kristensen Project.” Estonian National Folklore Archives, Estonian Literature Museum, Tartu, Estonia. April 26, 2000.

“Who ya’ gonna call?: Cunning Folk, Ministers and Ghosts in Danish Legend Tradition.” Keynote speech. Noorte Folkloristide Konverents (Conference of Young Folklorists). Estonian Literature Museum, Tartu, Estonia. April, 25, 2000.

“Forestilling om det nittende århundrede: Koreas friluftsmuseum og ideologi.” Invited lecture. Asiens Institut, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14, 2000.

“Remapping Koreatown: Folklore, Narrative and the Los Angeles Riots.” Invited lecture. Etnologiska institutionen med Folklivsarkivet, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden, March 16, 2000 and NEFA-Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 15, 2000.

“Ghost in the Machine: Medicine, Supernatural Threat and the State in Lars von Trier's Riget.” Invited lecture. Croyances traditionelles et folklore narratif contemporain: Journée d’étude et d’échanges. Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, January 2000. Also presented at the Institute of Folklore, Tartu, Estonia, April 27, 2000.

“Fra arkivet til feltet: Sagn, Erindringshistorier og Politisk Ideologi.” Center for Folkloristik, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 1999.

“Folkesagn: Aspekter af en tolkningsmetode.” Invited lecture. Institut for Nordisk Filologi, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1999.

“From Chisin Palpki to Car Modification: Korean American Identity and Folklore in Los Angeles.” Invited speaker. The Fourth International Conference of Korean Studies, Seoul, South Korea, June 1999.

“Heroes and Lies: Storytelling Strategies Among Paramedics.” International Society for Folk Narrative Congress, Göttingen, Germany, July 1998.

“Witch Games: Economic Threat and Social Strategy in Late Nineteenth Century Denmark.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, April 1998.

Discussant, “Ape Brides and Fox Neighbors: Coping with the Alien in Chinese Anecdota and Drama.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, April 1998.

“Imagining Chosôn: Minsokch’on and the Politics of Display.” Invited lecture at Understanding Korean Society and Culture Conference, The University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand. November 18, 1997. Expanded version presented at Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA. February 20, 1998.

“From Minsokch’on to Legoland: Folklore, Tourism and the Politics of Display.” Invited lecture, The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. January 23, 1998.

“Ghost in the Machine: Supernatural Threat and the State in Lars von Trier’s Riget.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, April 1997. Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, October 1997.

“Of Ghosts and Aliens: Folklore, Film and the Politics of Mediation.” Invited lecture. Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft. The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. October 1996.

“Experts.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 1996.

“I wouldn’t go there for a $1000...: Conceptions of the City in Paramedic Storytelling.” California Folklore Society Annual Meeting, April 1996.

“Reinscribing Korean Identity on Los Angeles: 1992 Riot Narratives.” Orality and Identity Seminar, University of California, Berkeley. April 1996.

Moderator, “Finnish Culture and Folklore”, Inaugural program of Finnish Studies at University of California, Berkeley. October 1995.

“Folklore, Ideology and Film: Pelle the Conqueror.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 1995.

“Documenting Storytelling.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, October 1994.

“Urban/Ethnic Culture: Korean Riot Narratives and the Construction of Space.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, October 1994.

“Rewriting history: Postmodernism, Historiographic Metafiction and Reich's Festen for Cæcilie.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 1994.

Moderator, “Korean Traditions in a Modern Context: Economic Development, Religion and Popular Culture.” Asia Society Symposium. The Festival of Korea. UCLA. March 5, 1994.

“Narrator, Genre, Meaning: Legend and Fairy Tale in Kjeld Rasmussen's Repertoire.” American Folklore Society Conference, October 1993.

“Sa-I-Gu P'oktong tt'ae: Korean-American Riot Narratives.” The Folklore of the 1992 L.A. Civil Disturbances: A Roundtable Symposium. The UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology. May 1, 1993.

“Transacting the Supernatural: Economic Exchange in Scandinavian Legends.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference, April, 1993. Also presented at “Nordic Folklore Conference,” University of Washington, October 1993.

“Considering K'ongjwi: Folktale and Family in Korea.” Invited lecture. Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, February 7, 1993.

“Spinning Yarn(s): An Analysis of Jens Peter Pedersen's Legend Performances.” In “Storytelling Events: Narrative as Performance.” The Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology UCLA, Los Angeles, California, December 4, 1992.

“Traditional Sex: Notes on Gender and Legends in Danish Tradition.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 1992.

“The Life and Legends of a Danish Bachelor: An Analysis of Peder Johansen's Folklore Repertoire.” Invited Lecture. Nordic Folklore Colloquium. Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 28, 1992.

“Rocking the Paternal Boat: Redefining the Feminine in Anna (jeg) Anna and Baby.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. December 1991.

“Seeds of Tradition: Evald Tang Kristensen's Legend Informants in America.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference. May, 1991.

“Cinderella in Korea.” Invited Lecture. The Center for Korean Studies. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. March 12, 1991.

“Cinderella in Korea: Ecotypes of the K'ongjwi P'atjwi tale.” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Oakland, California. October 1990.

“Folklore and Anthropology in America: Is There a Difference?" Invited Lecture. Department of Folklore, Andong National University, Andong, Korea. June 28, 1990.

“Downward Mobility: Structure of Individual Search in Marie Grubbe and Anna (jeg) Anna.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference. May, 1990.

“From Trolls to Turks: Continuity and Change in Danish Legend Tradition.” Invited Lecture. Nordic Folklore Colloquium, Madison, Wisconsin. May 1990.

“Some Old Norse Hang-ups: Ritual Aspects of Hávamál 134.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 1989.

“The Comings and Goings of a Korean Grandfather.” The Center for Korean Studies. Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. April 1989.

“Let them eat ttôk: The Ritual Landscape of a Korean Village at Lunar New Years.” Folklore Forum, University of California, Berkeley. November 11, 1988.

“New Year's by the Sea: The Ritual Landscape of a Korean Village”. Invited Lecture. Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Series, Seoul, Korea: May 1988.

Field Experience

Summer 1999 — Field Research. Punk rock music in South Korea. Documentary film production.

Summer 1998 — Field Research. Outdoor museums and theme parks in Denmark.

Summer and Fall 1993, Summer 1994 — Field Research. Collection of stories from paramedics in Alameda County, California. Video production.

November 1992 - June 1993 — Field Research. Collection of riot narratives from Korean-Americans in Los Angeles, California.

Summer 1991 — Field Research. Collection of ethnocentric stories in Scandinavia.

Summer 1990 — Field Research. Collection of Korean folktales.

December 1989 — Field Research. Collection of rhymes and ethnocentric contemporary legends in Scandinavia.

1987-1988 — Field Research. Field research on Korean shamanism in Kyôngido and Chejudo provinces, Korea. Research on Korean folk and open-air museums.

Spring 1984 — Field Research. Field study of Danish rural life (social organization, folk narrative) on Fyn, Denmark.

Professional Memberships

American Folklore Society

Association of Asian Studies

California Folklore Society

The Folklore Fellows (Associate)

Foreningen Danmarks Folkeminder

International Documentary Association

International Society for Folk Narrative Research (elected to membership)

Modern Language Association

Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

Society for Visual Anthropology

Skills

Modern Languages (decreasing level of proficiency): Danish (native), Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Icelandic, French, German, Italian, Spanish (reading). Graduate language exams in French and German.

Video: Nine years experience in field production and editing.

Photography: Ten years experience as professional free-lance photographer.

Computer: UNIX, ULTRIX, CMS, X-windows, Sunwindows. MacIntosh and IBM-Personal Computing. Networks. Multimedia applications. Web Page Design. Programming in C, Pascal and Basic. Statistical analysis using SAS.