office: 77 McReynolds phone: 573-884-9674 email: rothl@missouri.edu office hours: M 3:15-4:15 and
by appointment
Research and teaching areas:
Folkloristics (folk art and material
culture, foodways, family folklore,
popular culture, folklore of North
America and the African Diaspora),
film studies, and feminist, post-
colonial, and critical race theories.
LuAnne Roth
LuAnne Roth teaches American folklore and film studies and is Associate Editor of the Center for eResearch and SyndicateMizzou. Roth’s research has primarily focused on foodways and material culture, her work appearing in Western Folklore and Food, Culture and Society as well as in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (2005) and Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture (2003). Particularly interested in how food is used to negotiate ethnicity, race, gender, and power in film, Roth is currently doing dissertation research on cinematic representations of the Thanksgiving meal through the lens of post-colonial and critical race theory.
Education Ph.D. Candidate, English Department, University of Missouri
M.A. Folklore and Mythology, University of California, Los Angeles
Selected Publications
“Last Supper.“ Journal of American Folklore. Forthcoming, Winter 2010.
“Beyond Communitas: Cinematic Food Events and the Negotiation of Power, Belonging, and Exclusion” (reprinted). 2007. Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture, ed. Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven. Logan: Utah State University Press, pp. 197-220. www.amazon.com
“Beyond Communitas: Cinematic Food Events and the Negotiation of Power, Belonging, and Exclusion.” 2006. Western Folklore 64(3-4):163-87. www.jstor.org
“Rada,” “Petro,” and “African-American Yard Art.” 2005. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, ed. Sw. Anand Prahlad. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. www.greenwood.com
Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture, ed. Peter Narváez, pp. 263-93. Logan: Utah State University Press. www.amazon.com
“The Music Never Stopped: Roots of The Grateful Dead.” 1998. Journal of American Folklore www.jstor.org
“Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner”: Vegetarians, Meat Eaters, and the Negotiation of Family Identity.” 2005. Food, Culture, and Society 8(2):45-69. www.bergpublishers.com
Courses Taught
English 1810: Introduction to Film 1895-1950
English 1820: Introduction to American Film, 1945-Present
English 3700: American Folklore (“Food and Culture”)
English 3700: American Folklore (“Material Culture”)
English 3700: American Folklore: Food and Culture in Film
English 3700: Urban Legends and Film
Film Studies 2810: Introduction to Film Analysis
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