Jacqueline Simpson appointed Visiting Professor at Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy
Congratulations to Professor Jacqueline Simpson, former editor of our journal Folklore and current editor of our newslettter FLS news, on her appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester’s Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy.
H-Folk: H-Net Network on Folklore
H-Net proudly announces its newest addition to its family of over 180 discussion networks—H-Folk—in cooperation with The American Folklore Society, The Folklore Society of Great Britain, The Folklore Studies Association of Canada, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the National Folklore Support Centre [India], and the Société internationale d’ethnologie et de folklore. H-Folk has...
Book Notice: The Folklore of Discworld
Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson are joint authors of The Folklore of Discworld, which was published by Doubleday in September 2008 (ISBN 978-0-385-61100-8). Pratchett has had a lifelong interest in folklore and myth, and has often drawn on this in his fantasy novels about the Discworld, sometimes for major plot motifs, sometimes for passing allusions. He...