College of Humanities People
Sheila Bock, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/
Office Information
461 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: bock.42@osu.edu
Office Hours:
AU09: Monday 4:30-5:30, or by appointment
461 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: bock.42@osu.edu
Office Hours:
AU09: Monday 4:30-5:30, or by appointment
General Background:
Sheila Bock is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English with a focus on Folklore Studies. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and her M.A. in Comparative Studies from the Ohio State University. Currently, she is working on her dissertation on diabetes health education, bringing together her interests in foodways, narrative, the body, and the intersections of institutional and vernacular knowledge. She has also done research on jokes and belly dance, and she has conducted fieldwork collecting information on Ohio foodways as well as oral histories of Native Americans in Ohio. She has taught "Introduction to Folklore," "American Icons," and first and second level undergraduate writing courses at OSU, and she has assisted Professor Sabra Webber with her course on "Arab American Family Immigration Sagas." She has also worked as the Archivist and the Graduate Administrative Associate at the OSU Center for Folklore Studies.
