Jo Radner

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Joan Newlon Radner is an American folklorist, storyteller and oral historian. She is Professor Emerita at American University in Washington, DC. [1]

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Education

Radner has a BA, MA, and PhD from Harvard University. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled 'Fragmentary annals of Ireland from MS 5301–5320, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels' and was submitted in 1971. [2]

Career

Radner began her research career in Celtic Studies, but later published in Irish history and literature, folklore and feminist theory. She was based at American University in Washington, DC where she taught courses in literature, American Studies, folklore, and storytelling. [3]

Radner regularly presents 'Burnt into Memory', a performance based around the wildfires that ravaged Brownfield, Maine in 1947. [4] She constructed 'Burnt into Memory' from over 30 hours of interviews with local Brownfield residents who experienced the fires. [5]

Recognition

Her book Feminist messages: coding in women's folk culture was awarded the Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize of the American Folklore Society. [6]

Radner served as president of the American Folklore Society (AFS) between 1999 and 2000. [7] Her Presidential Address was titled 'AFS Now and Tomorrow: The View from the Stepladder' and stressed the need for the folklore profession to have more diverse practitioners. [8] She also served as President of the National Storytelling Network: her Presidential Address was titled "On the Threshold of Power: The Storytelling Movement Today". [9]

In 2013, Radner's album Yankee Ingenuity: Stories of Headstrong and Resourceful People, [10] received a Storytelling World Award. [11] In the same year she was awarded the Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award from the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling. [12]

In 2017, Radner became a Fellow of the AFS. [13]

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Prof Emerita". American University. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  2. ↑ Radner, Joan Newlon (1971). Fragmentary annals of Ireland from MS 5301-5320, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels (Thesis). OCLC   57632198.
  3. ↑ "Jo Radner - A Maine Humanities speaker". Maine Humanities Council. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  4. ↑ "Jo Radner's BURNT INTO MEMORY". Mayo Street Arts. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  5. ↑ Yocom, Margaret R. (2010). Radner, Jo (ed.). "Jo Radner's "Burnt Into Memory"". Storytelling, Self, Society. 6 (3): 241–244. ISSN   1550-5340. JSTOR   41949137.
  6. ↑ "University of Illinois Press, 'Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture'". www.press.uillinois.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  7. ↑ "Past AFS Presidents". The American Folklore Society. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  8. ↑ Radner, Joan N. (2001). "AFS Now and Tomorrow: The View from the Stepladder (AFS Presidential Address, 28 October 2000)". The Journal of American Folklore. 114 (453): 263–276. doi:10.2307/542023. ISSN   0021-8715. JSTOR   542023.
  9. ↑ Radner, Jo (2008-01-01). "On the Threshold of Power: The Storytelling Movement Today". Storytelling, Self, Society. 4 (1). ISSN   1550-5340.
  10. ↑ "Jo Radner - Yankee Ingenuity: Stories of Headstrong and Resourceful People". www.joradner.com. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  11. ↑ "2013 Storytelling World Resource Awards". storytellingworld.com. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  12. ↑ "Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award". Northeast Storytelling. 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  13. ↑ "2017 AFS Honor, Prize, and Award Recipients". The American Folklore Society. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
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