Daniel Wojcik, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)
Statement
My interests include contemporary folklore studies and urban ethnology; cultural theory and ethnographic practice; apocalyptic and millenarian movements; subculture studies, vernacular religion and alternative spiritualities; and “outsider” and visionary artists.
Publications
Books:
The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in
Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art, University Press of
Selected Essays:
"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.
"Outsider Art, Vernacular Traditions, Trauma, and Creativity." Western Folklore, no. 2 & 3 (Winter 2008).
"Visionary Artists." The
"Apocalyptic and Millenarian Aspects of American UFOism." In UFO Religions, ed. Christopher Partridge, pp. 274-300. Routledge (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.
"Embracing Doomsday: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Nuclear Age." Western Folklore 55, no. 4 (1996): 297-330.
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
- Introduction to Folklore
- Folklore and the Supernatural
