Lisa Gabbert

Biography

Dr. Gabbert received a PhD in Folklore and American Studies from Indiana University. Her research interests are in medicine, humor, landscape/place, and festivity. She is the author of Winter Carnival in a Western Town: Identity, Change, and the Good of the Community (2011) and with Keiko Wells, An Introduction to Vernacular Culture in America: Society, Region, and Tradition (2017), as well as numerous journals. She teaches graduate classes in fieldwork and research methods, festival, and landscape/place/space, and a variety of undergraduate classes in folklore studies, including children's folklore, American folklore, folk art/material culture, and festival.

Dr. Gabbert is available to serve on graduate thesis committees concerning any aspect of folklore studies, especially medicine, humor, landscape and place, festivity, play/children's folklore, the west, and legends/festivals/monsters.