Jeffrey A Tolbert, Ph.D.

Books

Tolbert, Jeffrey A. & Michael Dylan Foster (eds.). (2024). Möbius Media: Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-64642-601-0 https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6566-moebius-me

Foster, M. D., & Tolbert, Jeffrey A. (eds.). (2016). The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World. (274 pp). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. ISBN/ISSN: 9781607324171 

Journal Articles

Tolbert, J. A., & Gramigna, R. (2024). “Res Ipsa: Ostension in Semiotics and Folkloristics.” Semiotic Review(11).

Tolbert, J. A., & Keetley, D. (2023). “Folk Horror: An Introduction.” Horror Studies 14 (Folk Horror special issue), 159-172. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00067_2

Phillips, W., & Tolbert, J. A. (2023). “The Things We Already Know and the Things We’re Set Up Not to See: Folkloristics, COVID-19, and the Traps of Amplification.” Journal of Folklore Research 60 (1), 77-98.

Tolbert, J. A. (2022). “Of Forts and Fairies.” Semiotic Review 8.  https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/article/view/74

Tolbert, J. A., & Johnson, E. D.M. (2019). “Digital Folkloristics: Text, Ethnography, and Interdisciplinarity.” Western Folklore 78(4), 327-356.

Tolbert, J. A., & Rupert, B. (2019). “Local Cosmologies.” Semiotic Review(8),15. https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/article/view/45/42

Stevens, V., & Tolbert, J. A. (2019). “Beyond Metaphorical Spectrality: For New Paranormal Geographies.” New Directions in Folklore 16(1), 27-57. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ndif/article/view/26726

Tolbert, J. A. (2015). “On Folklore’s Appeal: A Personal Essay.” New Directions in Folklore, 93-113.

Book Chapters

Tolbert, J. A. (2024). “The Value of Recursion.” In Jeffrey A. Tolbert and Michael Dylan Foster (Eds.), Möbius Media: Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque, 3-35. Logan, UT: Utah State UP. 

Tolbert, J. A. (2023). “The Frightening Folk: An Introduction to the Folkloresque in Horror.” In Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt (Eds.), Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, 25-42. UK: University of Wales Press. ISBN/ISSN:9781786839794 https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/folk-horror-heholtkeetley/?fbclid=IwAR091MoSl7bzzZUFOymXXw

Tolbert, J. A. (2023). “How to Make (and Possibly Un-Make) a Digital Monster.” In Ilana Gershon and Yasmine Musharbash (Eds.), Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters, 175-200. Punctum Books.ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-68571-082-8.

Holl-Jensen, C., & Tolbert, J. A. (2016). “‘New-Minted from the Brothers Grimm’: Folklore's Purpose and the Folkloresque in The Tales of Beedle the Bard.” In Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert (Eds.), The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World, 163-172. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. ISBN/ISSN: 9781607324171

Tolbert, J. A. (2016). “A Deadly Discipline: Folklore, Folklorists, and the Occult in Fatal Frame.” In Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert (Eds.), The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World, 125-143. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. ISBN/ISSN: 9781607324171

Other Publications

Tolbert, Jeffrey A. (2024). “The Folkloresque in Brief.” Gendai Shiso, May 2024. Translated by Ryuhei Hirota. 

Tolbert, Jeffrey A. & Ian Brodie. (2019). “Ostension.” In Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, and Richard A. Williams (Eds.), SAGE Research Methods Foundations. SAGE. ISBN/ISSN: 10.4135/9781526421036797093 https://methods.sagepub.com/Foundations/ostension

Reprints

Tolbert, J. A. (2018). “‘Dark and Wicked Things’: Slender Man, the Folkloresque, and the Implications of Belief.” In Trevor Blank and Lynne McNeill (Eds.), Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. (pp. 91-112). Logan, UT: Utah State UP.

Tolbert, J. A. (2018). “‘The Sort of Story That Has You Covering Your Mirrors’: The Case of Slender Man.” In Trevor Blank and Lynne McNeill (Eds.), Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. (pp. 25-50). Logan, UT: Utah State UP.

Book Reviews

Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey, by Melissa Daggett. [2017. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.] Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Review published on April 19th, 2019.

The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic. Ed. Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan. [2016. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Rowman & Littlefield.] Journal of American Folklore, vol. 131, issue 519 (Winter 2018): 101-103.

Humble Theory: Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life, by Dorothy Noyes. [2016. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.] Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Review published on June 21st, 2018.

Putting the Supernatural in Its Place: Folklore, the Hypermodern, and the Ethereal, edited by Jeannie Banks Thomas. [2015. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.] Western Folklore. Review published on April 1st, 2017.

Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South, by Anderson Blanton. [2015. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.]

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Review published on January 27th, 2016. Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man, by Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire. [2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press.] Journal of
Folklore Research Reviews. Review published on September 28th, 2011.

Oral and Print Cultures in Ireland, 1600–1900, ed. Marc Caball and Andrew Carpenter. [2010. Dublin: Four Courts Press.] Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Review published on June 16th, 2011. 

Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages, by Stephen Knight. [2009. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.] Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Review published on September 15th, 2010. 

War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam, by Mai Lan Gustaffson. [2009. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.] Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Review published on May 5th, 2010. 

Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses, by Elizabeth Tucker. Folklore Forum, Indiana University. [2007. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.] Review published on April 12, 2010. https://folkloreforum.net/2010/04/12/elizabeth-tucker-haunted-halls-ghostlore-of-american-college-campuses/