Dianne Dugaw (Professor)
Statement
Dianne Dugaw's work embraces 18th-century British polite and popular culture as well as Anglo-American folklore to the present day, with attention to women and gender studies. In her scholarship and teaching she emphasizes the interplay of period songs, texts, and performance and examines ideologies underlying academic constructions of 'folklore' and other hierarchies of cultural expression.
Links
Warrior Women in Anglo-American Folksong and History (cdbaby.com/dugaw)
Publications
Publications include 'Deep Play': John Gay and the Invention of Modernity, Universitiy of Delaware Press, 2001; Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850, Cambriges University Press, 1989; pbk. ed., University of Chicago Press, 1996, WEBSITE: http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/sites/warrior (2002); CD Recording: Dangerous Examples: Fighting & Sailing Women in Song, Dugaw/Studio Apocalypse, 2002); available from http://cdbaby.com/dugaw; Editor, The Anglo-American Ballad: A Folklore Casebook, Garland Publishing, 1995; "'The Rationall Spirituall Part': Dryden and Purcell's Baroque King Arthur, in Jayne Lewis and M. E. Novak, eds. Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden, University of Toronto Press, 2004).
