Welcome to the page of Daisy Ahlstone (they/them)

I study environmental storytelling. How? Through the lens of folklore, eco-criticism, posthumanism, and science & technology studies. Talk to me about legend, thylacines, extinction, material culture, metaphor, discourse analysis, digital communication, and more! I also collaborate on several folklore and community-centered projects, including the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (https://likenknowledge.org/), the Western States Folklore Society (http://www.westernfolklore.org/), and a Youtube and Twitch streaming channel called Folkwise, which brings the discipline of folklore to the next gen through digital platforms (https://www.twitch.tv/folkwise).

Feel free to send me an email about my work, professional studies, or folklore!

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

“Thylacine Dreams: The Vernacular Resurrection of an Extinct Marsupial.” M.A. Thesis. (2019). Committee Members: Dr. Lynne McNeill (Chair), Dr. Christine Cooper-Rompato, and Dr. John McLaughlin. Utah State University: Logan: UT.

“Forbidden Foodways: Tide Pods, Ostensive Practice, and Intergenerational Conflict.” Co-Authored with Camille Sleight and Michelle Jones. Contemporary Legend 3.8 (2018): 86-112.

“A Folklorists’ Touch” Writing Center Analysis Paper. Paper 5 (2017). https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wc_analysis/5

BOOK REVIEWS:

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2021. “Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective” by Quinn, Jocey, and Claudia Blandon. Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 1 (Winter).

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2019. “Culture and Value: Heritage, Tourism and Property” by Regina Bendix. Western Folklore 78, no. 4 (Fall): 357-359.

UNDER REVIEW:

Journal Article. “Becoming Folkwise: Sustaining Digital Community while Socially Distant.” Co-authored with Dom Tartaglia, Kaitlyn Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Anna Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, & Jared L. Schmidt. Currently under review with Cultural Analysis as of June 2021.

Journal Article. “Giving Life to Legends: Material Representation of Ostensive Behavior.” Western Folklore. Currently in copy-editing as of August 2021.

Book Chapter. “Gaming Extinction: Representations of the Thylacine in Video Games.” The Tasmanian Tiger Chronicles: The Natural History and Unnatural Mystery of the Thylacine. Edited by Gareth Linnard and Branden Holmes. Currently under review with CISRO Publishing: Australia as of January 2021.

Book Chapter. “Narrating Perseverance: An Overview of Thylacines in Fiction.” The Tasmanian Tiger Chronicles: The Natural History and Unnatural Mystery of the Thylacine. Edited by Gareth Linnard and Branden Holmes. Currently under review with CISRO Publishing: Australia as of October 2020.

Retrospective. “2020 from a Folklorist.” New Directions in Folklore (2020). Edited by John Price and Dom Tartaglia. Bloomington: IN.

Book Review. “Posthuman Folklore” by Tok Thompson. Western Folklore. Currently under review with journal Western Folklore as of October 2020.

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARNACES:

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2021. “Episode 156 - Thylacines with Folklorist Daisy Ahlstone” Interviewed by Paul Romero and Ben Radford. Squaring the Strange, Apple Podcasts. 16 August 2021. Audio, 01:36:49.

Ahlstone, Daisy and Kerry Kaleba. 2021. “Cicada Brood X Mini Lecture with Kerry Kaleba and Daisy Ahlstone!” Virtual Lecture. Discusses the relationship between Brood X, Ecology, and Foodways. Folkwise, YouTube. 31 May 2021.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2021. “Interview with… Daisy from Folkwise?” Interview by Dom Tartaglia. Discusses current dissertation research, environmental folklore, extinction, and thylacines. Twitch, Folkwise. 16 March 2021. Video, 01:03:20.

 

Find me on Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisyahlstone/

Twitter: @thyla_daisy

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzj72KhvvLfz1E3oI3Bmt9A?view_as=subscriber

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/folkwise