College of Humanities People
Katherine Borland, Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Studies: http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/Center for Folklore Studies: http://cfs.osu.edu/
433 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: borland.19@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-0045
Office Hours:
W 8-9; 11:30-12:30 M 12:15-1:15
Personal URL(s):
and: http://newark.osu.edu/facultystaff/personal/kborland/Pages/index.aspx
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University
General Background:
Postcolonial (World) Literature, Folklore, Latin American Folklore, Festival, Dance, Traditional Narrative, Ethnography, Immigration, Development Theory, Experiential Education.
Katherine Borland studies and teaches about the artfulness of ordinary life and the politics of culture
Her current research projects include a critical ethnography of short-term international volunteering and an ongoing consideration of the gender dimensions of social dance.
In her teaching she works particularly with undergraduate students to test theory against practice and practice against theory in order to build a solid foundation for critical inquiry.
Publications2011 with Sheila Bock. Exotic Identities: Dance, Difference and Self Fashioning. Journal of Folklore Research 48(1):1-36.
2006 Unmasking Class, Gender and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
"That's not What I Said: Interpretive Conflict in Oral Narrative Research" Anthologized in Women's Words (1991), The Oral History Reader (1998), and Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice (2003).
Folklore
Ethnography
Performance
