Faculty and staff
Elizabeth Fine
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Professor/ Director Humanities |
341 Lane Hall |
231-9593 |
Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, 1978.
Elizabeth C. Fine's research interests include cultural studies, African American folklore, performance studies, and Appalachian Studies. She is the author of Soulstepping: African American Step Shows (University of Illinois Press, 2003, 2007), Performance, Culture, and Identity, co-edited with Jean Haskell Speer (Praeger, 1992), and The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print (Indiana University Press, 1984, 1994). She is an Associate Editor for Text and Performance Quarterly. Her articles have been published in such journals as the Journal of American Folklore, Semiotica, Communication Monographs, Communication Education, Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Southern Folklore, Literature in Performance, Annals of Tourism Research, Sprache und Sprechen, and The Drama Review, as well as in numerous books. She has also produced and directed two documentaries.