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JASON MARC HARRIS
Visiting Assistant Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
teaching Interests: composition; critical thinking; 19th century British literature; theories of the fantastic; folklore; creative writing
courses: WRA 145 Writing: Men in America; WRA 150 Writing: Evolution of American Thought
Harris presented a paper in Edinbugh, Scotland, at the 2004 Robert Louis Stevenson conference. His "National Borders, Contiguous Cultures, and Fantastic Folklore in Hogg's The Three Perils of Man" was published in Studies in Hogg and His World (Vol. 14, 2003); his "Robert Louis Stevenson: Folklore and Imperialism" was published in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 46, Sept 2003). Harris co-authored The Troll Tale and Other Scary Stories (2001), which continues to be a textbook resource for classes of folklore, storytelling, and popular culture. The book, coauthored with Birke Duncan, is a collection of oral narratives (especially American legends gathered from individuals and families) and contains an analysis of their motifs, performance, and beliefs.
The Master of Ballantrae, published May 2006 in the Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series, includes an introduction by Harris, and in July 2007 Northwest Folklore published a special edition collaboration with Birke Duncan titled Laugh Without Guilt: A Clean Joke Book. Most recently, Ashgate Press published in February 2008 Harris's book Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.
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