Timothy R. Tangherlini
The Scandinavian Section and
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
UCLA
(310) 825-7611 fax (310) 825-9754
tango@humnet.ucla.edu
Education:
1992 — Ph.D.,
Fields: Folklore, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Danish Literature, Old Norse Language and Literature.
1986 — M.A.,
Fields: Old Norse Language and Literature, Modern Danish Literature.
1985 — A.B.,
Magna cum laude with highest honors in Folklore and Mythology.
Employment and Teaching Experience:
July 1, 2003-present—Professor. Scandinavian Section, Germanic Languages and Literatures; and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
July 1, 2005-December 31, 2005— Visiting Professor of
Folklore, Department of Anthropology, University of
September 1-December 31, 2003—Visiting Professor of
Folkloristics, Division of Social Sciences, Háskóli Íslands [The
July 1, 1999-June 30, 2003— Associate Professor. Scandinavian Section, Germanic Languages and Literatures; and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
July 15, 2000-August 1, 2002—External Associate Professor. The
Humanities Faculty,
July 15, 1999-July 15, 2000— Associate Professor (Temporary)
and Director. 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,
June 24-July 15, 2000 — Visiting Associate Professor of
Ethnology. Högskolan på
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.
1987-1988 — Visiting Researcher.
1987 — Research Assistant. Department of
Scandinavian.
1986 — Instructor. Uldum folkehøjskole.
Fellowships, Grants, Prizes and Honors:
2007 – Senior Fellow, The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. Project: Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines.
2007-present – Mapping Nordic Literary History. CoPI. Grant from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
2006-2007 – Senior Fellow, The Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA. For work on a digital archive of Danish folklore.
2005 – PEN /
2003-2004—Guggenheim Fellow. John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. Folklore and rural society in nineteenth century
2003—Fulbright Scholar, Council for International
Exchange of Scholars. Lecturing and research at The University of Iceland,
2002-2004—CHLT—Cultural Heritage Language Technologies. National Science Foundation / European Union. Grant to develop on-line tools for the study of heritage languages. CoPI in charge of Old Norse.
2002-2004—CIRA, UCLA International Institute. Grant
for conference, “Critical Geographies in
2003—Office of Instructional Development, UCLA. Grant to further develop online archive of Korean and Korean American Folklore.
2001-2002—TLtC Planning Grant, UCOP. Grant from the UC Office of the President to plan for an implementation of Internet2 based synchronous and asynchronous instruction in Nordic Languages. PI. Collaboration with UC Berkeley and UCSD.
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,
2000— Outstanding Dictionary of Literary Biography Entry, The Editors of Bruccoli Clark Layman for entry on “Jeppe Aakjær.”
2000 — Associate Fellow. The Folklore Fellows.
1998 — Center for
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,
1991 — Regents Fellowship.
1991 — Graduate Humanities Research Grant.
1991 — Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.
Office of Graduate Student Instructor Training, Graduate Division.
1990 — American Scandinavian Foundation Fellow.
1990 — Graduate Humanities Research Grant.
1990 — Jean Steager Prize in Folklore.
1989 — Bernard Osher Foundation Fellow.
1987-1988 — Luce Scholar. The Henry Luce Foundation,
1985 — Regents Fellowship.
1985 — Einar and Eva Haugen Prize.
1985 — Walter W. Webster, Jr. Scholar.
1983, 1985 —
1984 — John Harvard Scholar.
Administrative Experience and Activities:
2007—Referee. Committee on Research Faculty Grants Program, UCLA.
2007—Referee. Dissertation Year Fellowships Competition, UCLA Graduate Division.
2007—Search Committee Chair, Old Norse Search, The Scandinavian Section, UCLA.
2006 – Referee. American Council of Learned Societies fellowship competition.
2006-2007—Search Committee Chair. Norwegian/Swedish Search, The Scandinavian Section, UCLA.
November 1, 2006-present — Chair, International Committee, The American Folklore Society.
December 1, 2006-July 1, 2006 – Chair, Functional Sponsors Group, Common Collaboration and Learning Environment Committee, UCLA.
January 1, 2006-present – Vice Chair, The Scandinavian Section, UCLA.
July 2005-present—Co-Editor, Histories of Nordic Literary Cultures. International project.
April 2004-present—Member,
March 2005-April 2005— Consultant. State’s Attorney General
Office. The Department of Justice.
July 1, 2004-present—Member, University Research Council, UCLA.
December 1, 2003-present—Advisory Board, “The Place Center,”
July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004.—Member, Faculty Advisory Committee. Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA.
July 1, 2003-June 30, 2005—Member, Humanities Content Integration Systems Group, Strategic Research Initiatives, North Campus, UCLA.
July 1, 2001-June 30, 2003—Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee. Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA.
May 2003-May 2004—Organizing Committee, Society for Advancement
of Scandinavian Society Annual Conference 2004,
May 2002-February 2004—Member, Dean’s Search Committee, Division of the Humanities, UCLA.
January 2002-present—Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee. Center for Korean Studies, ISOP, UCLA.
January 1, 2001-July 1, 2004— Vice Chair, Scandinavian Section, Germanic Languages and Literatures, UCLA.
July 2002-present—International Advisory Board, Dept. of
Folklore,
July 2002-October 31, 2006—International Advisory Board, The American Folklore Society.
2002 – Consultant, “The Last Shamans,” National Geographic Television.
2002-2003—Chair, Dean’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Languages, Division of the Humanities, UCLA.
July 2002-June 2003—Consultant, “The Snow Queen,” Walt Disney Feature Animation.
2001-2002 – Chair, Director Search Committee, Center for Digital Humanities, Division of the Humanities, UCLA.
2001-present – Editorial Board, Western Folklore, Journal of the California Folklore Society.
2001-2003—Columnist. The Wireless Report. Industry webzine focusing on issues in wireless computing.
2001-2003 – Member, Faculty Committee on Educational
Technology,
2001-2003—Member, Course Management Systems Workgroup,
2002-present—Chair, Collaborative Distance Learning Initiative
Steering Committee,
2001— Member, Director and Asst. Director Search Committee, Center for Digital Humanities, Division of the Humanities, UCLA.
2001 – Referee, Seed Grant Program for Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Strategic Research Initiatives, North Campus, UCLA.
2000-2001— Research Consultant, “The Last Shamans,” National Geographic Specials.
2000-2004— Executive Committee, Scandinavian Discussion Section, The Modern Languages Association.
1999-2002—IDP Committee, Folklore and Mythology, UCLA.
1999-2001—Programming Advisory Committee, The
1999-present—Advisory Board, Italian Oral History Institute,
1998-1999— Dean’s Advisory Committee on Technology. Division of
Humanities,
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,
1996 — Annual Conference Program Committee Co-Chair.
1996 — Research consultant. “Sirens of Cheju-Do.” Produced by Diana Lee. National Geographic Television. Documentary on Korean diving women.
1995-2001 — 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,
1992-1995 — Fulbright-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.
Publications
Books
Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1994. Interpreting Legend.
Danish Storytellers and Their Repertoires.
_____. 1998. Talking Trauma. Paramedics and Their
Stories.
Hyung-il Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini, ed. 1999. Nationalism
and the Construction of Korean Identity.
Yi Ch’ǒngjun. 1976. Your
Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea, ed. 2008 (forthcoming). Sitings:
Critical Approaches to Geography in
Documentary Films
Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1995. Talking Trauma:
Storytelling Among Paramedics.
Stephen J. Epstein and Timothy R. Tangherlini. 2002. Our
Nation. A Korean Punk Rock Community.
Articles and Reviews
Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1988a. “Ships, Fogs and
Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in
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Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1988c. “New Years by the Sea.”
Transactions of the Royal Asiatic
Timothy R. Tangherlini and So
Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1990b. “Some Old Norse Hang-Ups: Ritual Aspects of Hávamál 134.” Mankind Quarterly 31, 87-108.
_____. 1990c. “'It Happened Not Too Far From Here...': A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization.” Western Folklore 49, 371-390.
_____. 1990d. “See juhtus siin lähedal...: Ülevaade muistendi teooriast ja iseloomustusest.” Translated by Mare Kõiva. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore. (Estonian translation of above).
_____. 1991. “Downward Mobility: Structure of Individual Search in Marie Grubbe and Anna (jeg) Anna.” Danske Studier 25, 179-186.
_____. 1992. “International Folkloristics Update:
_____. 1994b. “Förställningar om maran i nordisk folktro.” Scandinavian Studies 66, 307-309.
_____. 1994c. “The Ancient Egyptian 'Tale of Two Brothers'.” Mid-America Folklore 22, 54-55.
_____. 1994d. “An Initiation Kut for a Korean Shaman.” Journal of American Folklore 107, 433-435.
_____. 1995b. “Storytelling Games and the Game of
Storytelling: Social Norms and Legend in Nineteenth Century
_____. 1995c. “Cinderella in
John Lindow and Timothy R. Tangherlini. “Nordic Legends and the Question of Identity. Introduction.” Scandinavian Studies 67, 1-7.
Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1995d. “From Trolls to Turks: Change and Continuity in Danish Legend Tradition.” Scandinavian Studies 67, 32-62.
John Lindow and Timothy R. Tangherlini, ed. 1995e.
Legend and Identity in
Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1995f. “Uncertain Centers/Uncentered Selves: Postmodernism and the (re)Definition of Feminine in Anna (jeg) Anna and Baby.” Scandinavian Studies 67, 306-329.
_____. 1995g. “Korean Folk-tales. By James Riordan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 54, 856-858.
_____. 1995h. “The Case of K'ongjwi: Folktale and
Family in
_____. 1996a. “The World Tree. Poems by Thorkild Bjørnvig.” Scandinavian Studies 68, 115-117
_____. 1996b. “Legend.” In American Folklore. An
Encyclopedia, edited by Jan Harold Brunvand. Pp. 437-439.
_____. 1996c. “Korean Americans.” In American Folklore. An Encyclopedia, edited by Jan Harold Brunvand. Pp. 425-427. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
_____. 1996d. “Prolonged Echoes: Old Norse myths in medieval Northern society. Volume 1. By Margaret Clunies Ross.” Scandinavian Studies 68, 510-513.
_____. 1996e. “Once Upon a Time: Approaches to Folktale Collections.” Mid-America Folklore 44, 86-92.
_____. 1997a. “The Origins of Scandinavian Drama. By Terry Gunnell.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 96, 298-300.
_____. 1997b. “Humor och kultur. Edited by Ulf Palmenfelt.” Humor 10, 515-517
_____. 1997c. “Camp Arirang. Produced by Diana S. Lee and Grace Yoon Kyung Lee.” Western Folklore 56, 99-101.
_____. 1997d. “Folklore Fights the Nazis. Humor in Occupied Norway. By Kathleen Stokker.” Western Folklore 56, 182-184.
_____. 1997e. “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.
_____. 1998b. “Barter and Games. Economics and the Supernatural in Danish Legendry.” Arv, Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 1998. 54, 41-62.
_____. 1998c. “Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality and Modernity. By Laurel Kendall.” Acta Koreana 1, 175-178.
_____. 1999b. “Shamans, Students and the State: Politics and the Enactment of Culture in South Korea, 1987-1988.” In, Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Edited by Hyung-il Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini. Pp. 126-147. Korea Research Monograph 26. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California.
Hyung-il Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1999c. “Introduction: Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity.” In, Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Edited by Hyung-il Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini. Korea Research Monograph 26. Pp. 1-12. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California..
Timothy R. Tangherlini. 1999d. “Stories of Emergency Medical Responders.” In, Traditional Storytelling Today. An International Sourcebook. Edited by Margaret MacDonald. Pp. 428-433. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
_____. 1999e. “‘Who ya gonna call?’: Ministers and the Mediation of Ghostly Threat in Danish Legend Tradition.” Western Folklore 57, 153-78.
_____. 1999f. “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.
_____. 1999g. “Remapping Koreatown: Folklore, Narrative and the Los Angeles Riots.” In, Built L.A. Folklore and Place in Los Angeles. Edited by _____. Special Issue. Western Folklore 58, 149-173.
_____. 1999h. “Los Angeles Intersections (Folklore and the City).” In, Built L.A. Folklore and Place in Los Angeles. Edited by _____. Special Issue. Western Folklore 58, 99-106.
_____, ed. 1999i. Built L.A. Folklore and Place in Los Angeles. Special Issue. Western Folklore 58.
_____. 2000a. “Heroes and Lies: Storytelling Tactics
Among Paramedics.” Folklore 111, 43-66.
_____. 2000b. “Det døde barn i hoppegyngen. Moderne danske vandrehistorier. By Robert Zola Christensen.” Arv 56, 207-8.
_____. 2000c. “All the World’s Reward. Folktales told by Five Scandinavian Storytellers. Reimund Kvideland and Henning Sehmdsdorf (eds.).” Tradisjon 30 (2000), 37-9.
_____. 2000d. “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.
_____. 2000e. “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.
_____. 2000f. “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.
_____. 2000g. “‘How do you know she’s a witch?’: Witches, Cunning Folk and Competition in Denmark.” Western Folklore 59, 279-303.
Derek Collins, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Timothy R. Tangherlini, ed. 2000h. “Witchcraft in Local and Global Perspectives.” Special Issue. Western Folklore 59(4).
Derek Collins, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Timothy R. Tangherlini. 2000i. “Introduction.” Western Folklore 59, 246-50.
Timothy R. Tangherlini, trans. 2001b. “Shamanistic Myths of Cheju Island.” In Myths of Korea. Peter S. Lee, ed. Pp. 207-37. Seoul: Jimoon Publishing.
_____. 2001c. “Ghost in the Machine: Supernatural Threat and the State in Lars von Trier's Riget.” Scandinavian Studies 73, 1-24.
_____. 2001d. “Chisin Palpki, P’ungmul, Christian Surfers and ‘Slamming a ride’: Folklore and the Negotiation of Korean American Identity in Los Angeles.” Acta Koreana. 4, 95-114.
_____. 2001e. “Review of Rushing to Sunshine (Seoul Diaries), by Solrun Hoass (2001).” Korean Studies Review 2001, no. 11. Electronic file: http://www.iic.edu/thelist/review/ksr01-11.htm
_____. 2001f. “Exploring Urban and Ethnic Folklore: Strategies in Research and Pedagogy.” In, Pathways. Approaches to the Study and Teaching of Folklore. Anniki Kaivola-Bregenhøj and Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, ed. Pp. 27-46. NNF Publications 9. Turku: Åbo Akademi University.
_____. 2001g. “The Individual and Tradition: Folklore Methodology Today.” In, Pathways. Approaches to the Study and Teaching of Folklore. Anniki Kaivola-Bregenhøj and Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, ed. Pp. 9-16. NNF Publications 9. Turku: Åbo Akademi University.
_____. 2001h. “Contemporary Legend and Linguistic
Structure: Robert Zola Christensen and the “Vandrehistorie”” Copenhagen
Folklore Notes 10/01. Pp. 1-8.
_____. 2001i. “Et spring ind i et
billede.” Scandinavian Studies 73: 231-233.
_____. 2002a. "Forestillinger om "Den Andre" Images of Otherness. Lene Ytrehus, ed." Cultural Analysis 3.
_____. 2002b. “Prinz als Wolf (AaTh 428).” Enzyklopädie des Märchens. New York and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Vol 10.3: 1324-1327.
_____. 2003a. “ ‘And All Anyone Heard’: Crystallization in Paramedic Storytelling.” In, Dynamics of Tradition: Perspectives on Oral Poetry and Folk Belief. Ed. Lotte Tarkka. Pp. 343-358. Studia Fennica Folkloristica 13. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.
_____. 2003b. “‘Oral Tradition’ in a Technologically Advanced World.” Oral Tradition 18, 136-8.
_____. 2004. “Performing through the Past: Ethnophilology and Oral Tradition.” In, Models of Performance in Oral Epic, Ballad and Song. Ed. Joseph F. Nagy. Western Folklore 62, 143-149.
_____. 2005a. “In Memoriam. Alan Dundes.” Folklore 116, 221-224.
_____. 2005b. “The Folk-Stories of Iceland. By Einar Ól. Sveinsson.” Western Folklore64: 116-8.
_____. 2005c. “Flemming Hemmersam, Folkloristik 2003: Fire Folkloristiske Essays [Folkloristics 2003: Four Folkloristic Essays].” Western Folklore 64, 111-113.
_____. 2005c. “The Genre of Trolls. The Case of a Finland-Swedish Folk Belief Tradition. By Camilla Asplund Ingemark.” Etnologia Scandinavica 35.
_____. 2006a. “Hans Christian Andersen. The Misunderstood Storyteller. By Jack Zipes.” The Journal of Folklore Research, Online Reviews.
_____. 2008a. “Chosŏn Memories: Spectatorship, Ideology and the Korean Folk Village.” In, Sitings: Critical Approaches to Geography in Korea. Center for Korean Studies Monograph Series. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea. 2008b. “Introduction— Constructed Places / Contested Spaces: Critical Geographies and Korea.” In, Sitings: Critical Approaches to Geography in Korea. Center for Korean Studies Monograph Series. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Online Editions and Tools
Zoe Borovsky, John Lindow, Benjamin Stowell, and Timothy R. Tangherlini, ed. 2000. On-line Edition of Fornaldarsögur norðurlanda http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/Norse/
Kryztof Urban, Timothy R. Tangherlini and David Gabriel, ed. 2002. On-line Edition of Geir T. Zöega, Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic with Morphological Lookup Tool. http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/~curban and Perseus
Timothy R. Tangherlini, ed. 2000-present. The Online Korean / Korean American Folklore Archive. http://projects.cdh.ucla.edu/koreanfolklore/
Lectures and Screenings
“What to do with a million books: Challenges in Old Norse.” Invited participant. Mellon Workshop, Tufts University. May 2007.
“Sites of (re)Collection: Toward a New Historic-Geographic Method in Folklore.” Invited Lecture. The Folklore Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. April 2007.
“Thick Viewing: Integrated Visualization Environments for Humanities Research on Complex Corpora”. HASTAC, Durham, North Carolina. April 2007.
“Shrinking Culture: Lotte World and the Logic of Miniaturization.” Consuming Culture in Early and Late Modernity. Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa. October 2006, and Center for Korean Studies, University of British Columbia. April 2007.
“Tablet Computing.” Center for Digital Humanities Roundtable. UCLA. April 2007.
“‘And the wagon came rolling in…’: Legend and the Politics of (Self-)Censorship in Nineteenth Century Denmark.” Tales, Poems and Bawdy Songs: Folkloric Imagination in the North. UCLA. May 20, 2006.
“Bogus Beggars, Welfare Queens and the New Left: Legend and Legislative Reform in Late 19th Century Denmark.” Folklore Roundtable. University of California, Berkeley. November, 2005.
“The Beggar, the Minister, the Farmer, his Wife and the Teacher: Legend and Legislative Reform in Nineteenth Century Denmark.” Plenary lecture. The Fifth Celtic-Nordic-Baltic Folkore Symposium of Folk Legends. Reykjavik, Iceland. June, 2005.
“Understanding Begging: Legend, Local Politics and Legislative Reform in 19th Century Denmark.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference. May 2005.
“Will Work for Food: Legend and Poverty Legislation in 19th Century Denmark.” Memorial Program for Donald Ward. UCLA. May, 2005.
“reCreating Folk: Nationalism(s), Consumerism and Change at the
Korean Folk Village.”
Invited Lecture. “The Future of Folk.” The Center for the Humanities, The
University of Wisconsin, Madison. April 2005.
“Constructed Places / Contested Spaces: Critical Geographies in Korea. Introduction.” CIRA, UCLA, May 14, 2004.
“Chosŏn Memories: Spectatorship, Ideology and Minsokch'on”. Constructed Places / Contested Spaces Conference. CIRA, UCLA, May 14, 2004.
“‘I certainly couldn’t eat there...’: Evald Tang Kristensen’s Attitudes Toward Poor Informants.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 2004.
“Nationalism, Globalization and Change in the Korean Folk Village.” Invited Lecture. Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. April 7, 2004.
“Digital Humanities: Emerging Forms of Scholarship.” Invited Presentation. Interdisciplinary Discussions in the Arts and Humanities at UCLA. March 16, 2004.
“Beer Roulette: Advertising, Ethnicity and Politics in Denmark.” Invited Lecture. Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch. University of Minnesota. March 3, 2004.
“Duborg: Folklore, Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnicity in Denmark.” Invited Lecture. Félagsvísindadeild, Háskóli Íslands. October 28, 2003.
“Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, digital texts and tools.” with Matthew J. Driscoll. Seminar om udgivelsesprincipper og tekstformidling, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi. September 5, 2003.
“Ingen klinke-klanke: Zladko Buric, Globalism and Danish Advertising.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 2003.
“From Zladko Buric to Dansk Folkeparti: Representations of Ethnic Outsiders in Danish Media.” Scandinavian Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA. April 2003.
“Korean Folklore Instruction and the Development of English Language Curricular Materials.” BK21. UCLA Center for Korean Studies and Koryo University Joint Workshop. Koryo University, December 2002.
“Vores Øl: Representations of the Ethnic “Other” in Contemporary Danish Media.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, May 2002. Also presented at NISS, University of California, Berkeley. August 2002.
“Development of English Language Materials for the Instruction of Korean Culture.” Respondent. UCLA Center for Korean Studies and Koryo University Joint Workshop. Los Angeles, December 15, 2001.
“Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community.” Documentary Film screening and lecture.
· Official Selection, 9th Annual New York Underground Film Festival.
· Official Selection, 9th Annual Lost Film Festival, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania.
· Official Selection, 1st Washington DC Underground Film Festival
· Official Selection, Asian American Film Showcase at the Gene Siskel Center, Chicago
· Official Selection, 9th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival
· Official Selection, International Festival of Cinema and Technology 2005
· Official Selection, Indie2002, Brazil
· Official Selection, Johns Hopkins Film Festival
· Official Selection, Association for Asian Studies
· Official Selection, 2nd Austin Asian Film Festival, 2005
· Official Selection, Sontrope Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2007
----. First International Korean Punk Rock Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, October 2001.
----. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, October 2001.
----. UCLA Center for Korean Studies, December 5, 2001.
----. UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies, December 6, 2001.
----. Harvard University, March 2002.
----. California Folklore Society, Annual Meeting. March, 2002.
----. Rutgers University, April 2002.
----. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii. June 2002.
----. 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washington. February 2003.
----. Sociology Dept., Stanford University. Stanford, California. March 2003.
----. Ókindarkvöld, Iðnó, Reykjavík, Iceland. November 2003.
----. The Future of Folk. The Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison. April 2005.
----. Amplitude Visual – Música Documentada. São Paulo Brazil. November 2006.
----. Frásagnamenning og mótstaða í nútímaborgum. Kviksaga, Reykjavik. April 2007.
“Talking Trauma.” Documentary Film screening and lecture. UC Berkeley Folklore Archives, December 7, 2001.
“Medieval Scandinavia in the Digital Age.” Faculty Roundtable. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA. December 5, 2001.
“Asynkron og synkron sprogundervisning over nettet: Et forsøg.” Dansk undervisningsministeriet. UC Berkeley, November 3, 2001.
“Korean American Youth Identity in Los Angeles.” Do-it-yourself: Identity, Globalization and Korean Youth Culture. Barker Center, Harvard University. December 1, 2000.
“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 Chosǒn: 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 ttŏk: 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.
Professional Memberships
American Folklore Society
Association of Asian Studies
The Folklore Fellows (Associate)
Foreningen Danmarks Folkeminder
International Society for Folk Narrative Research (elected to membership)
Modern Language Association
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study