Education:

• Ph.D. in folklore with minors in English and anthropology: Indiana University, 1974 --Dissertation title: "The American Folk Church: A Characterization of American Folk Religion Based on Field Research Among White Protestants in a Community in the South Central United States" (Director: Richard M. Dorson)
• M. A. in folklore with a minor in English: Indiana University, 1969
• B. A. in English with a minor in Latin: The University of Texas (Austin), 1968
• A.A.: Howard College (Big Spring, Texas), 1966
• High school diploma: Big Spring (Texas) High School, 1964

Experience:

• Professor of English and Folklore, Arkansas State University, 1986-present
• Professor of English, Arkansas State University, 1982-1986
• Associate Professor of English, Arkansas State University, 1978-1982
• Assistant Professor of English, Arkansas State University, 1974-1978
• Instructor in English, Arkansas State University, 1971-1974
• Associate instructor in folklore, Indiana University, 1970-1971
• Co-Director, Mid-South Center for Oral History, Arkansas State University, 1979-1993
• Archivist, Indiana University Folklore Institute, 1968-1971
• Consultant, Iroquois Research Institute, 1978, 1980

Courses Taught:

English: Freshman Composition I and II, Honors Freshman Composition I and II, Freshman Writing Tutorial, World Literature Survey I and II, Honors World Literature Survey I, Introduction to Poetry and Drama, Introduction to Fiction: American Indian Fiction, American Literature Before 1865, American Humor, History of the English Language, Popular Horror Literature, Minority Literature (Multi-ethnic), Native American Literature, Southwestern American Literature, The Symbolic Dimension (team-taught), The Blues as Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Methods of Research and Bibliography (graduate seminar), Yeats and the Irish Renaissance (graduate seminar), Momaday and the Native American Renaissance (graduate seminar), Eudora Welty: Ethnography and Literature (team-taught graduate seminar)

Folklore: Introduction to Folklore, Arkansas Folklore, American Folklore, Ballad and Folksong, Black American Folklore, Mythology, Native American Verbal Art, Studies in Folklore (graduate seminar), Workshop in Folklore for Public School Teachers (graduate seminar)

Honors: Introduction to Iconography (team-taught), Cosmos, Self, and Religious Experience, American Multiculturalism (team-taught), Apocalypse and Millennium

Anthropology: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Honors Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

American Indian Studies: Introduction to American Indian Studies, American Indian Religions

Thesis Committees (M.A. in English unless noted):

• Steven E. Mitchell, "Evil Harvest: Investigating the Comic Book, 1948-1955" (M. A. in history; 1982)
• Robin Heidt, "The Mother Earth Myth in the Short Lyric Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" (1982)
• Holly C. Sandelin Lewis, "Personae in Bob Dylan's Narrative Poetry: A Study in Change and Development" (1983; director)
• Cecil Kirk Hutson, "Black Oak Arkansas : an Analysis of how Black Oak Arkansas Reflected and Rejected Rural Southern Culture" (M.A. in history; 1990).
• Elisa D. Masterson, "Re-creation and the Sacred Bridge in Keri Hulme's The Bone People" (1992; director)
• Donna Brewer Jackson, "Milligan Ridge: the Development and Decline of a Twentieth Century Farm Community, 1920-1962" (M. A. in history; 1994)
• Gary Lloyd Buxton, "Wheat Weaving in Randolph County, Arkansas" (1995, director)
• Guy Lancaster, "Any Deadly Thing: A Novel" (2000)
• Angela Williams, "The Greening of a Novel: Eudora Welty's Losing Battles" (2003)
• Francesca M. Muccini, "From Italian Cibo to American Food: The Construction of Italian American Identity Through Food" (Ph.D in Heritage Studies; 2006, director)
• Gary Lloyd Buxton, "Auctioneering as Performance" (Ph.D. in Heritage Studies, 2007, director)

Publications:

Books

• The Types of the Polack Joke. Folklore Forum Bibliographic and Special Series No. 3. Bloomington, IN: Folklore Forum, 1969 (pamphlet).
• A Land Use History of Coso Hot Springs, Inyo County, California. Administrative Publication 200. China Lake, CA: Naval Weapons Center, 1979 (with other members of an Iroquois Research Institute team).
• Native American Folklore, 1879-1979: An Annotated Bibliography. Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 1984 (with Frances M. Malpezzi).
• Voices from State: An Oral History of Arkansas State University. State University, AR: Arkansas State University (with Larry D. Ball).
• Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1986 (edited).
• 100 Years of American Folklore Studies: A Conceptual History. Washington: American Folklore Society, 1988 (edited with David Stanley and Marta Weigle).
• Italian-American Folklore. Little Rock: August House, 1992 (with Frances M. Malpezzi).
• Sourcebook in Arkansas Folklore. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992 (edited with W. K. McNeil).
• Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
• Oratory in Native North America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006 (general editor).

Essays in Books 

• "Herder's Humanität: A Theory for Applied Folklore." In Studies in Relevance: Romantic and Victorian Writers in 1972. Ed. Thomas Meade Harwell. Salzburg: Institut fur Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1973. 
• Untitled Memoir. In Roads Into Folklore: Festschrift in Honor of Richard M. Dorson. Folklore Forum Bibliographic and Special Series No. 14. Ed. Richard A. Reuss and Jens Lund. Bloomington, IN: Folklore Forum, 1975. 
• "Effects of In-Migration on Folklore." In Proceedings of the Conference on Ozark In-Migration. Ed. Edd Jeffords. Eureka Springs, AR: NP, 1976. 
• "The Chain." In Indiana Folklore: A Reader. Ed. Linda Dégh. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980 (originally published in Indiana Folklore 2, 1 [1969]: 90-96). 
• "The Walking Coffin." In Indiana Folklore: A Reader. Ed. Linda Dégh. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980 (originally published in Indiana Folklore 2, 2 [1969]: 3-10. 
• Essays on The Magnificent Seven, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and Silk Stockings. In Magill's Survey of Cinema. First Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1980 (with Frances M. Malpezzi).
• Essays on Broken Lance, Destination Tokyo, Friendly Persuasion, Island of Lost Souls, Jeremiah Johnson, Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Old Man and the Sea, The Onion Field, The Shining, and The Ugly American. In Magill's Survey of Cinema. Second Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1981 (with Frances M. Malpezzi). 
• Essays on Nanook of the North and La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc. In Magill's Survey of Cinema. Silet Films. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1982 (with Frances M. Malpezzi).
•  Essays on Ghost Story, Only When I Laugh, Outland, Taps, and Whose Life Is It Anyway? In Magill's Cinema Annual 1982: A Survey of 1981 Films. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1982 (with Frances M. Malpezzi)
• "The Folk Church: Institution, Event, Performance." In Handbook of American Folklore. Ed. Richard M. Dorson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
•  Essay on Falstaff. In Magill's Cinema Annual 1983: A Survey of 1982 Films. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983 (with Frances M. Malpezzi).
•  "The Jonesboro Tornado: A Case Study in Folklore, Popular Religion, and Grass Roots History." In The Charm Is Broken: Readings in Arkansas and Missouri Folklore. Ed. W. K. McNeil. Little Rock: August House, 1984 (originally published in Red River Valley Historical Review 2 [1975]: 273-286). 
• Essays on Bedtime for Bonzo and Hombre. In Magill's Cinema Annual 1984: A Survey of 1983 Films. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1984 (with Frances M. Malpezzi) 
• Essays on Aparajito, La Dolce Vita, The Green Wall, Loves of a Blonde, Pather Panchali, The Shop on Main Street, and Throne of Blood. In Magill's Survey of Cinema: Foreign Language Films. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1985 (with Frances M. Malpezzi)
•  Essays on Claire Bloom, Richard Harris, John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Michael Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Rachel Roberts, Maximilian Schell, Nicol Williamson, and Susannah York. In Films and Filmmakers: Actors and Actresses. Ed. Christopher Lyon. London: St. James Press, 1986 
• "‘Monstrous . . . Still More Monstrous': Interstitiality and the Ogre in the Machine." In Technology and Human Productivity: Challenge for the Future. Ed. John Murphy and John Pardeck. New York: Quorum Books, 1986.
•  Essays on Land of Sunshine and Overland Monthly. In Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals. Ed. Edward Chielens. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986. 
• "‘Tokens of Literary Faculty’: Native American Literature and Euroamerican Translation in the Early Nineteenth Century." In On the Translation of Native American Literatures. Ed. Brian Swann. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
• "Leslie Marmon Silko." In Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II. Third Series. Ed. James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles. Detroit: Gale, 1994.
• Christmas," "Easter," "Foxfire," "Independence Day," "Labor Day," "Mason, Otis T.," and "Saint's Day." In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. New York: Garland, 1996.
•  "‘This voluminous unwritten book of ours': Early Native American Authors and the Oral Tradition." In Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays. Ed. Helen Jaskoski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 
• "Argot," "Autograph Book," "Blason Populaire," "Boast," "Cantometrics," "Diachronic/Synchronic," "Esoteric/Exoteric," "Gesture," "Hemispheric Approach," "Mnemonic," "Oikotype," "Paradigmatic/Syntagmatic," and "Tongue Twister." In Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Forms, Methods, and History. Ed. Thomas A. Green. Santa Barbara: ABC/Clio, 1997.
•  "Leslie Marmon Silko." In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Native American Authors. Ed. Kenneth Roemer. Bruccoli Clark Laymon, 1997 (with Kenneth Roemer).
•  "Italian-American." In Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Ed. Paul Oliver. London: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
•  "Sermon." In Folklore and Literature: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce Rosenberg. Santa Barbara: ABC/Clio, 1998. 
• "Funeral Customs." In Encyclopedia of Italian-American Culture. Ed. Salvatore LaGumina. New York: Garland, 1999 (with Frances M. Malpezzi).
• "Folklore," "Charles Alexander Eastman," "Oliver LaFarge," "D'Arcy McNickle," and "Christine Quintasket." In Encyclopedia of American Literature. E. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum, 1999.
•  "Azusa Street Revival." In Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions. Ed. Stephen Glazier: New York: Routledge, 2000.
• "The New Age Sweat Lodge." In Healing Logics. Ed. Erika Brady. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001.
• "Azusa Street Revival" and "Evil Empire." In Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. Ed. Brenda Brasher. New York:  Routledge, 2001.
• "Lady Gregory," "Andrew Lang," "Sean O'Casey," "Thomas Percy," and "John Millington Synge." In The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, edited by Steven Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer. New York: Continuum, 2003.
• "Azusa Street Revival," "Peter Cartwright," "Ann Lee," and "McGuffey's Readers." In The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• "Context," "Mississippi Delta," "Religion," and "Text." In Encyclopedia of American Folklife, edited by Simon Bronner. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.
• "Culture Area," "Diffusion," "Translation," and "Apache" (with Frances M. Malpezzi). In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folklore and Folklife, edited by William M. Clements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
• "Folklore and Folklife." Arkansas Encyclopedia of History and Culture, edited by Tom Dillard. 2006. <encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID--406>.
• "Stump Saw." Arkansas Encyclopedia of History and Culture, edited by Tom Dillard. 2007. <encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4743>.
• "Orality." In Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, edited by Jennifer McClintock and Alan R. Velie. New York: Facts-on File, 2007.
• "Native American Tales." In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, edited by Donald Haase. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
• "Religion." In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2nd edition, edited by William A. Darity. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007.

Periodical Articles 

• "Proverbs in the Indiana University Folklore Archives." Proverbium 14 (1969): 410-411.
•  "The Polack Joke in 1970: An Addendum." Folklore Forum 4 (1971): 19-29. 
• "The Legend of Stepp Cemetery." Indiana Folklore 5.1 (1972): 92-141 (with William E. Lightfoot).
•  "The Physical Layout of the Methodist Camp Meeting." Pioneer America 5.1 (1972): 9-15 
• "Mid-South Folklore: Policies and Goals." Mid-South Folklore 1 (1973): 3-4. 
• "Unintentional Substitution in Folklore Transmission: A Devolutionary Instance." New York Folklore Quarterly 29 (1973): 242-253.
•  "Folklore and Local History." Craighead County Historical Quarterly 12.3 (1974): 12-17. 
• "The Rhetoric of the Radio Ministry." Journal of American Folklore 87 (1974): 318-327.
•  "Savage, Pastoral, Civilized: An Ecological Typology of American Frontier Heroes." Journal of Popular Culture 8.2 (1974): 254-262. 
• "Five Approaches to Teaching Folklore in a College English Curriculum." Journal of English Teaching Techniques 8.1 (1975): 1-11 (also ERIC Document ED 102 555).
•  "Jonesboro's Haunted Cemetery." Craighead County Historical Quarterly13.2 (1975): 3.
•  "Some Wart Cures from Craighead County." Craighead County Historical Quarterly 13.4 (1975): 21-22.
•  "Conversion and Communitas." Western Folklore 35 (1976): 35-45.
•  "Faith Healing Narratives from Northeast Arkansas." Indiana Folklore 9 (1976): 15-39.
•  "Message from the President." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 3.1 (1976): ii-iv. 
• Editor's Foreword and Notes to "Sister Sookie's Story: The Autobiography of Mary S. Brisco." Mid-South Folklore 5 (1977): 77, 96-99.
•  "Folklore's Vitality and Symbolism: Toward a Method of Interpretation." Studies in Popular Culture 1.1 (1977): 7-15.
•  "Review Essay: Snake-Handlers on Film." Journal of American Folklore 90 (1977): 502-506. 
• "The American Folk Church in Northeast Arkansas." Journal of the Folklore Institute 15 (1978): 161-180.
•  "‘Collecting Birdskins': A Role for the Nonfiction Regionalist." Southern Quarterly 17.1 (1978): 5-14.
•  "Five British Travelers and Religion in Nineteenth-Century America." Research Studies 46.1 (1978): 44-49. 
• "Pious and Impious Peasants: Popular Religion in the Comedies of Lady Gregory and John M. Synge." Colby Library Quarterly 14.1 (1978): 42-48.
•  "Cuing the Stereotype: Verbal Strategy in the Ethnic Joke." New York Folklore 5 (1979): 53-61. 
• "The Folklorist, the Folk, and the Region." Missouri Folklore Society Journal 1979: 44-54.
•  "From Crow Killer to Robert Redford: The Pastoralization of Liver-Eating Johnson." Markham Review 8 (1979): 48-51. 
• "The Ozark States Forgotten People." Mid-America Folklore 7 (1979): 51-53.
•  "The Red Herring as Folklore." Armchair Detective 12 (1979): 256-259.
•  "Braided Armpits, Clean Bowling Shirts, and the Feminine Mystique." Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 6 (1980): 34-40. 
• "The Pentecostal Sagaman." Journal of the Folklore Institute 17 (1980): 34-40.
•  "Personal Narrative, the Interview Context, and the Question of Tradition." Western Folklore 39 (1980): 106-112. 
• "Public Testimony as Oral Performance: A Study of the Ethnography of Religious Speaking." Linguistica Biblica 47 (1980): 21-32. 
• "Faking the Pumpkin: On Jerome Rothenberg's Literary Offenses." Western American Literature 16/3 (1981): 106-112.
•  "Formula as Genre in Popular Horror Literature." Research Studies 49 (1981): 116-123.
• "Rationalization of Folklore in The Fatal Dowry." South Central Bulletin 41.4 (1981): 97-98 (with Frances M. Malpezzi). 
• "Ritual Expectation in Pentecostal Healing Experience." Western Folklore 40 (1981): 139-148.
•  "The Humanities Teacher and the Old-Time Religion." The Round Table of the South Central College English Association 23.1 (1982): 1, 3-4. 
• "‘I Once Was Lost': The Oral Narratives of Born-Again Christians." International Folklore Review 2 (1982): 105-111.
•  "Momaday's House Made of Dawn." The Explicator. 41.1 (Fall 1982): 60-62. 
• "The Way to Individuation in Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima." Midwest Quarterly 23.2 (1982): 131-143. 
• "Religious Folklife Recordings." Journal of American Folklore 96 (1983): 498-505.
•  "Sectarian Oxen." Mid-America Folklore 12.3 (1984): 13-15. 
• "‘Virgil in the Basket': A Northeast Arkansas Analogue." Mid-America Folklore 12.2 (1984): 21-26.
•  "Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan: A Novel of Initiation." Critique 26.3 (Spring 1985): 122-130.
•  "Folk Historical Sense in Two Native American Authors." MELUS 12.1 (Spring 1985): 65-78. 
• "Introduction: Forum on American Religious Folklife." Mid-America Folklore 13 (1985): 2-3.
•  "Tropological Allegory in Pentecostal Radio Sermons." Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 11 (1985): 31-38 (with Frances M. Malpezzi). 
• "The Ethnic Joke as Mirror of Culture." New York Folklore 12.3-4 (1986): 87-97. 
• "Mythography and the Modern Legend: Interpreting ‘The Hook.'" Journal of Popular Culture 19.4 (1986): 39-46.
•  "Review Essay: A Balinese Tetralogy." Journal of American Folklore 99 (1986): 118-121.
•  "Some Functions and Dysfunctions of Family Folklore." Mid-America Folklore 14.1 (1986): 26-35.
• "‘This Was the Beginning of Clearing of Land': The Development and Use of the East Arkansas Stump Saw." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 45.1 (1986): 41-52 (with Larry D. Ball). 
• "The Interstitial Ogre: The Structure of Horror in Expressive Culture." South Atlantic Quarterly 86.1 (1987): 34-43. 
• "The Use of Traditional Constructs in Native American Images of the White Man." Mid-America Folklore 16.1 (1988): 40-49.
•  "The Double and the Theme of Selflessness in Kagemusha." Film Literature Quarterly 17 (1989): 202-206 (with Frances M. Malpezzi). 
• "The ‘Man of Words' in Masontown, Pennsylvania: Two Approaches to Verbal Performance." Western Folklore 48 (1989): 169-177.
•  "‘The State of Arkansaw': A Folk Dystopia." Southern Folklore 46 (1989): 3-14. 
• "Review Essay: The Flowering of Religious Folklife Studies." Missouri Folklore Society Journal 11-12 (1989-90): 149-153.
•  "Schoolcraft as Textmaker." Journal of American Folklore 103 (1990): 177-192.
•  "Winemaking as Personal Cosmology." New York Folklore 16.1-2 (1990): 17-24.
•  "Catflesh in Mexican Food: Meaning in a Contamination Rumor." Studies in Popular Culture 14.1(1991): 39-52.
•  "‘Identity' and ‘Difference' in the Translation of Native American Oral Literature: A Zuni Case Study." Studies in American Indian Literatures 3.3 (1991): 1-13.
•  "Interstitiality in Contemporary Legends." Contemporary Legend 1 (1991): 81-91.
•  "Tiehacking in the Northeast Arkansas Bottomlands." Southern Folklore 49 (1992): 157-171 (with Larry D. Ball). 
• "‘The Very Last Timber': Harvesting Chemical Wood in Northeastern Arkansas." Forest and Conservation History 36 (1992): 73-81 (with Larry D. Ball). 
• "The Senath Light: Varieties of Legendary Experience in the Missouri Bootheel." Southern Folklore 50 (1993): 231-240. 
• "The Jesuit Foundations of Native American Literary Studies." American Indian Quarterly 18 (1994): 43-59.
•  "The ‘Offshoot' and the ‘Root': Natalie Curtis and Black Expressive Culture in Africa and America." Western Folklore 54 (1995): 277-301.
•  "A New Direction for the Arkansas Review." Arkansas Review 29 (1998): 
• "The Delta Symposia." Arkansas Review 31 (2000):
• "‘Image and Word Cannot Be Divided’: N. Scott Momaday and Kiowa Ekphrasis." Western American Literature 36, No. 2 ( Summer 2001): 134-152.
• "Polenta Moves Uptown." Primo, Spring 2001, pp. 58-59 (with Frances M. Malpezzi)
• "'A Continual Beginning, and Then an Ending, and Then a Beginning Again': Hopi Apocalypticism in the New Age." Journal of the Southwest 46 (2004): 643-660.
• "An Interview with Vance Randolph." Missouri Folklore Society Journal 26 (2004): 45-55.
• "The Gentrification of Polenta." Italian Americana 23 (2005): 133-144 (with Frances M. Malpezzi).

Reviews

• The Concept of Folklore by Paulo de Carvalho-Neto. Folklore Forum 4 (1971): 86-88. 
• Lawrence Doyle, The Farmer-Poet of Prince Edward Island: A Study in Local Songmaking by Edward D. Ives. Folklore Forum 5 (1972): 30-31. 
• The Foxfire Book, edited by Eliot Wigginton. Folklore Forum 5 (1972): 151-153. 
• Why Faith Healing? by Michael Owen Jones; The Story of Faith Healing by Sybil Leek. Journal of American Folklore 97 (1974): 261-262.
• The Rural Ozarks of Arkansas by Roger Minnick, Bob Minnick, and Leonard Sussman. Folklore Forum 9 (1976): 82.
•  The Folklore of Texan Cultures, edited by Francis Edward Abernethy. Journal of American Folklore 90 (1977): 86-87.
•  American Folk Medicine: A Symposium, edited by Wayland D. Hand. Journal of American Folklore 92 (1979): 86-87.
•  The Jolo Serpent-Handlers (film). Journal of American Folklore 92 (1979): 127-128.
•  Primitive Religion by John J. Collins. Journal of American Folklore 92 (1979): 510-511. 
• Cavorting on the Devil's Fork: The Pete Whetstone Letters of C. F. M. Noland, edited by Leonard Williams. Mid-America Folklore 8.3 (1981): 129-131.
•  Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert, edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg. Mid-America Folklore 9 (1981): 96-97.
•  Zuni: Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing, edited by Jesse Green. Journal of American Folklore 94 (1981): 248-250. 
• A Balinese Trance Seance (film). Journal of American Folklore 96 (1983): 382-383. 
• Southern Poor Whites: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Published Sources by J. Wayne Flynt and Dorothy S. Flynt. Mid-America Folklore 11.1 (1983): 32-33. 
• Material Culture Studies in America, edited by Thomas J. Schlereth. Mid-America Folklore 12 (1984): 48-50.
•  The Sanctified Church by Zora Neale Hurston. Mid-America Folklore 12.2 (1984): 43-44. 
• The World from Brown's Lounge: An Ethnography of Black Middle-Class Play by Michael J. Bell. Journal of American Folklore 97 (1984): 346-347.
•  The House-Opening (film). Journal of American Folklore 98 (1985): 120-121.
•  Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford by R. Gerald Alvey. Mid-America Folklore 14.2 (1986): 43-45.
•  The Ozarks by Milton D. Rafferty; The Ozark Outdoors by Milton D. Rafferty. Mid-America Folklore 14.1 (1986): 49-51. 
• Vance Randolph: An Ozark Life by Robert Cochran; On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw by Thomas W. Jackson; Bittersweet Country, edited by Ellen Gray Massey. Western Folklore 45 (1986): 292-297. 
• Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality by Marla K. Powers. Journal of Ritual Studies 1.2 (1987): 121-122.
•  Voices: An Anthropologist's Discourse with an Italian-American Festival by Richard Swiderski. Mid-America Folklore 16.2 (1988): 150-152. 
• American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent by Rosemary Levy Zumwalt. Asian Folklore Studies 49 (1990): 331-332. 
• Native American Renaissance by Kenneth Lincoln. Mid-America Folklore 18 (1990): 51-53. 
• Way Back in the Hills by James C. Hefley. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 49 (1990): 353-354. 
• Yellow Sun, Bright Sky: The Indian Country Stories of Oliver LaFarge, edited by David L. Caffey. American Indian Quarterly 13 (1990): 438-439. 
• Saints, Demons, and Sinners: Southern Preacher Anecdotes by Gary Holloway. Mid-America Folklore 19 (1991): 74-77. 
• Bashful No Longer: An Alaska Eskimo Ethnohistory by Wendell L. Oswalt; Among the Sioux of the Dakota: Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent 1869-70 by D. C. Poole; Indian School Days by Basil H. Johnston. Mid-America Folklore 20 (1992): 133-136. 
• The Forgotten Tribes: Oral Tales of the Teninos and Adjacent Mid-Columbia River Indian Nations by Donald M. Hines; American Indian Literature: An Anthology, edited by Alan R. Velie. Mid-America Folklore  20 (1992): 136-139. 
• Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer. Western American Literature 26.4 (1992): 365-366.
•  Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, and Victoria Krueger. Mid-America Folklore 21 (1993): 50-52.
• Navaho Folktales by Franc Johnson Newcomb. American Indian Quarterly 17.1 (1993): 148-149. 
• Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography, edited by Michael Oren Fitzgerald; Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin by Ralph H. Ruby and John A. Brown. Mid-America Folklore 21 (1993): 57-70. 
• Dead Voices: A Novel by Gerald Vizenor; Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Narrative and Lyric Poems, edited by Gerald Vizenor. American Indian Quarterly. 
• Apache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family by Ruth McDonald Boyer and Narcissus Duffy Gayton. Mid-America Folklore 22 (1994): 111-113.
• The Short Swift Time of the Gods on Earth by Donald Bahr et al.; Tragedy of the Wahk-Shum edited by Donald Hines. Mid-America Folklore 24 (1996): 101-103.
• Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant; and Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca  and the Indians of the Americas by David A. Howard. Mid-America Folklore 25 (1997): 92-94.
• A Folklorist’s Progress: Reflections of a Scholar’s Life by Stith Thompson. Mid-America Folklore 25 (1997): 100-102.
• Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians by Douglas R. Parks. Journal of Folklore Research 34 (1997): 79-80.
• Native American Writing in the Southeast 1975-1935: An Anthology by Daniel F. Littlefield and James W. Parins. Southern Folklore 54 (1997): 237-238.
• Reading the Voice: Native American Oral Poetry on the Written Page by Paul Zolbrod. Journal of Folklore Research 34 (1997): 153-156. 
• The Literary Index to American Magazines by Daniel A. Wells. ANQ 11 (1998): 39-41
• The Road to the Sundance: My Journey into Native Spirituality by Manny Twofeathers. Mid-America Folklore 27 (1999): 35-37.
• Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux by Robert W. Larson; Black Elk: Holy Man of the Lakota by Michael F. Steltenkamp. Mid-America Folklore 27 (1999): 41-43.
• Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez. Western American Literature 35.1 (Spring 2000): 213-214.
• Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands. By Loyal Jones. Southern Folklore 57.1 (2000): 81-83.
• The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography by Luke E.. Lassiter. Anthropology of Consciousness 11.3-4 (2000): 62-63.
• Sing with the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry, 1890-1999 by Kenneth Lincoln. Great Plains Quarterly 21.3 (Summer 2001): 250-251.
• Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson. Western American Literature 37.1 (Spring 2002):  115-116.
• Choctaw Prophecy by Tom Mould. Arkansas Review 34 (2003): 155-156.
• Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality by Philip Jenkins; Kokopelli: The Making of an Icon by Ekkehart Malotki; and Feathering Custer by W. S. Penn. Western Folklore, 63 (2004): 351-354.
• Choctaw Tales by Tom Mould. Arkansas Review 36 (2005): 51-52.
• A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest edited by Patrick G. Williams, S. Charles Bolton, and Jeannie M. Whayne. Arkansas Review 37 (2006): 62-63.
• The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. Edited by Trey Berry, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements. Arkansas Review 37 (2006): 204-205.
• Wiyaxayxt/ Wiyaakaa'awn/ As Days Go By: Our History, Our Land, Our People - The Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla. Edited by Jennifer Karson. Journal of Folklore Research Online Reviews. <www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=356>

Miscellaneous

• "Jogging." Forum 18.1 (1980): 51 (poem). 
• "For Lincoln Perry." Black American Literature Forum 17 (1983): 174 (poem). 
• Script for videotape Tie-Hackers of Cross County, Arkansas, Mid-South Center for Oral History and Arkansas State University Department of Radio-TV, 1987 (with Larry D. Ball).
•  Scriptwriter and narrator for Tradition, half-hour weekly radio program on American folk music, produced by KASU, the broadcasting service of Arkansas State University (1987-1995, 1999- present). 
• Scriptwriter and narrator for Calendar Lore, two-minute daily radio program on folklore, produced by KASU, the broadcasting service of Arkansas State University (1990-1999, 2007-present). 
• Scriptwriter for American Folk Voices, five-minute weekly radio program on folklore, produced by KASU, the broadcasting service of Arkansas State University (1993-1994).

Editorial 

• Editor, Mid-South Folklore, 1973-1978 
• Associate Editor, Mid-America Folklore, 1978-1998 (special issue editor [with Joseph Donaghy]: "Teaching the Blues" 24 [Spring 1996]) 
• Associate Editor, Southern Folklore, 1988-2001
• General Editor, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, 1998-2003; editorial committee, 2003-present 
• Production Editor, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 2006-present
• Ms reader for American Indian Quarterly, American Quarterly, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, Southern Folklore, Publications of the American Folklore Society, Communication Theory, Western American Literature, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Mosaic, Collegium Antropologicum (Croatian), Arkansas Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Utah State University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Indiana University Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Arizona Press, State University Press of Mississippi.

Funded Grants 

• "The Bloys Camp Meeting: A Folkloristic Appraisal of an Enduring Protestant Revival Viewed as Festival." Indiana University Doctoral Student Grant-in-Aid of Research, August 1971, $400.
•  "The British-American Folk Church." Arkansas State University Faculty Research Grant, August- December 1973, $1670. 
• "The Radio Ministry in Northeast Arkansas." Arkansas State University Faculty Research Grant, September 1975-June 1976, $1800.
•  "Summer Seminar: Myth, Symbolic Modes, and Ideology." National Endowment for the Humanities, June-August 1978, $2500. 
• "Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Folklore Society." Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities, March 1979, $500.
•  Travel Grant to Edinburgh, Scotland. American Council of Learned Societies, August 1979, $517. 
• "An Oral History of Arkansas State University." Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities, August- December 1979, $6750 (with Larry D. Ball). 
• "Summer Seminar: Cosmology and Religious Revitalization." National Endowment for the Humanities, June-August 1985, $3000.
•  "Forum on American Religious Folklife." Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities, November 1985, $933. 
• "Images of the ‘Whiteman' in Native American Verbal Art." Arkansas State University Faculty Research Grant, January-May 1987, $5301. 
• "Summer Seminar: New Directions in Native American History." National Endowment for the Humanities, June-August 1988, $3500.
•  "Biography of Natalie Curtis." Nathan Deutsch Faculty Development Award, July 1989, $500.
• "Delta Studies Symposium: The Blues," Arkansas Humanities Council, April 1994, (with Delta Symposium Committee).
•  "Delta Studies Symposium II: The Blues II," Arkansas Humanities Council, April 1995, $9000 (with Delta Symposium Committee). 
• "Delta Studies Symposium III: The Blues and Beyond," Arkansas Humanities Council, April 1996, $9000 (with Delta Symposium Committee).
•  "Panel: Women and the Blues," Arkansas Humanities Council, April 2000, $1000 (with Delta Symposium Committee).
• "Planning: Toward an Arkansas Folklife Program," Arkansas Humanities Council, November 2001, $800.
• "Toward an Arkansas Folklife Program," National Endowment for the Arts, September 2002, Folk Arts Technical Assistance Grant, $1500.

Awards

• Fellow of American Folklore Society (elected 2001)
• Dean's Distinguished Service Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Arkansas State University (2002)
• Massaro Prize for Best Essay on a Historical Theme Published in Italian Americana (with Frances M. Malpezzi; 2005)