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Daniel Wojcik
Director, Folklore Program
Office: 463 PLC
Phone: (541) 346-3946
Email: dwojcik@uoregon.edu
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
Research Areas:
Folklore Studies
Cultural Theory
Millenarian and Apocalyptic Movements
Vernacular Religion
Popular Culture
Visionary Artists
Courses Taught:
Popular Culture and Folklore
Apocalypse Culture
Folklore of Subcultures
Folklore and Religion
American Folklore
Folk Art, Visionary Art, and Material Culture
History and Theory of Folklore Research
Film and Folklore
Introduction to Folklore
Folklore and the Supernatural
Selected Publications:
The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America, New York University Press, 1997.
Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art, University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
"Pre's Rock: Pilgrimage, Ritual, and Runners' Traditions at the Roadside Shrine for Steve Prefontaine." In Shrines and Pilgrimage in Contemporary Society: New Itineraries into the Sacred, ed. Peter Jan Margry. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press (2008). (Click here to read article)
"Outsider Art, Vernacular Traditions, Trauma, and Creativity." Western Folklore, no. 2 & 3 (Winter 2008).
"Apocalyptic and Millenarian Aspects of American UFOism." In UFO Religions, ed. Christopher Partridge, pp. 274-300. London and New York: Rouledge (2003).
"Polaroids from Heaven: Photography, Folk Religion, and the Miraculous Image Tradition at a Marian Apparition Site"
Journal of American Folklore 109 (1996): 129-48.
Works in Progress:
Doomsday Passions and Millennial Pursuits: Cross-Cultural Studies of Apocalyptic Beliefs and Millenarian Movements
"Mysterious Technology": UFOs and the Visionary Art of Ionel Talpazan
Professional Memberships:
American Folklore Society
American Academy of Religion
American Studies Association
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)
Western States Folklore Society
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