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Home > Contact > Faculty Emeriti : Ellen J. Stekert

Ellen J. Stekert

Professor Emerita

steke001@umn.edu

Central Interests

• Horror/terror/science fiction genres
• Aesthetics of oral literatures
• Relationships between oral and written literatures
• Folksong and ballad
• Traditional belief systems and behavior patterns
• Collecting folk tradition (field work)
• Creativity within oral traditional literature
• Biography
• Traditions about wildlife
• Disability Studies
• Construction of nostalgia