People
Katherine Borland, Associate Professor
151 Adena Hall, 1179 University Dr., Newark, OH, 43055
Phone: 740-366-9268
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/borland19/
and: http://www.newark.osu.edu/kborland/
Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University
Postcolonial (World) Literature, Folklore, Latin American Folklore, Festival, Traditional Narrative, Writing, Ethnography, Immigration, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Development Theory, Experiential Education.
Katherine Borland studies and teaches about the artfulness of ordinary life, and the ways in which traditional expressive arenas constitute contested terrain.
Her current research projects include a book length study of Nicaraguan festival performances, entitled The Naked Saint: Masquerade and Identity in Contemporary Nicaragua, a study that includes considerations of traditional cross-dressing, carnivalesque performances, miracle discourse, and pilgrimage within a changing political climate.
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.
PublicationsCreating Community: Hispanic Migration to Southern Delaware. 2000. A community-based study of the immigration narratives of rural hispanic workers and community organizers.
"Marimba: Dance of the Revolutionaries, Dance of the Folk" in The Special Issue of Radical History Review: Uses of the Folk, Issue 84 (2002).
"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).
Research Interests:
Folklore
Ethnography
Performance
