Contact Information

Office: 4157 JFSB

Phone: 422-2869

Email: jill_rudy@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Spring 2012:

Not teaching Spring 2012

Student Consultations:
By appointment

Biography: Jill Terry Rudy teaches Introduction to Folklore; American Folklore; Expository Writing for Elementary Education Majors; English 495: A Feast of Foodways (senior seminar); and the graduate seminar in folklore. She encourages primary research in her courses, including interviewing and transcribing.

She has served on the university Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research and as director of the William A. Wilson Folklore Archives. She also has been the book review editor for the Journal of American Folklore, the coordinator of the American Studies program at BYU, and currently is editor of The Folklore Historian and on the board of Western States Folklore Society.

Professor Rudy has published articles in College English, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, and Western Folklore. She edited Marrow of Human Experience: Essays in Folklore by William A. "Bert" Wilson, published by Utah State University Press in 2006.

Her research interests are in the history of folklore and English studies; foodways; personal narrative; and family folklore. Keywords include tradition, disciplinarity, modernity, professionalization, decolonization, literacy, and stories. Her current projects involve North American Indian tale collections in the early 20th century and family traditions shared through technology.

Degrees: PhD, Indiana, 1997

Interests: Folklore