Mythology and Folklore

Our Faculty

Verlyn Flieger
Professor
Sheila Jelen
Associate Professor
Michael Olmert
Professor of the Practice
Barry Pearson
Professor

Faculty Bookshelf

Book Image Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert
Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic
Cornell University Press, 2009
Book Image Professor Verlyn Flieger
Editor, with Douglas A. Anderson, On Fairy-stories, by J.R.R. Tolkien
HarperCollins, 2008
Book Image Professor Barry Pearson
Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
University of Tennessee Press, 2005
Book Image Professor Verlyn Flieger
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology
Kent State University Press, 2005
Book Image Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert
The Smithsonian Book of Books
Smithsonian Books, 2003
Book Image Professor Verlyn Flieger
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, Revised Edition
Kent State University Press, 2002
Book Image Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert
Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg, 1998
Book Image Professor Verlyn Flieger
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faƫrie
Kent State University Press, 1997
Book Image Professor of the Practice Michael Olmert
Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella: Curiouser and Curiouser Adventures in History
Touchstone Publishing, 1996

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News

March 9, 2010
Professor Barry Pearson's new compilation, Classic Appalachian Blues, has been released by Smithsonian Folkways.
May 4, 2009
The career of Adele Berlin, Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible, was celebrated by the University on the occasion of her retirement.
March 11, 2009
Marshall Grossman has received a Folger NEH Long Term Fellowship, and Sheila Jelen has received a fellowship from the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.
September 4, 2008
Professor Verlyn Flieger has edited a new book-length edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's On Fairy-Stories with Douglas A. Anderson.