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Editors for Digest 8:1/2 (2021) 
 
Diane Tye (Guest Editor) is Professor in the Department of Folklore, Memorial University. 
She researches intersections of folklore and gender, especially as they relate to foodways. 
She is author of Baking as Biography. A Life Story in Recipes (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010) and 
co-editor with Pauline Greenhill of Unsettling Assumptions. Gender, Tradition, Drag (Utah 
State UP, 2014).  
 
Theresa A. Vaughan (Lead Editor) is Assistant Dean of the University of Central 
Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts, and a professor in the Department of Humanities and 
Philosophy. She also directs the Center for the Advancement of the Liberal Arts. She co-
edited The Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife with Liz Locke and Pauline 
Greenhill, and recently published Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the 
Humours (University of Amsterdam Press, 2020). She has recently enjoyed collaborating 
with Lucy M. Long on comfort foodways during the COVID-19 pandemic.  
 
Jessica Noe (Book Review Editor) is a doctoral candidate specializing in work at the 
intersection of performance, narrative, memory, and food within the field of 
communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pulling from the 
theories and traditions of performance and cultural studies as they find their areas of 
overlap in communication studies and folklore, her interdisciplinary research focuses on 
understanding how communities work to articulate a meaningful existence through stories 
surrounding their performances of group memory and food labor. Her dissertation, Baked 
In: Women’s Role in Curating and Creating Family Culture Through Culinary Performance, 
focuses on the intersection of performance, memory, and female embodied labor practices 
within an extended family’s food traditions. 
 
 
Digest Editorial Board 
 
Janet Gilmore served as Digest’s chief editor from 2016-2021. An emeritus professor in 
Folklore and Landscape Architecture at University of Wisconsin-Madison, she built her 
teaching, research, and outreach practices on foodways, historical and cultural landscape 
conservation, public folklore project collections access, and decades of experience as an 
independent folklorist coordinating with numerous non-profit arts and historical 
organizations chiefly in the western Great Lakes region and her native Pacific Northwest. 
Fishing people, maritime workers, folk artists, and farming people led her to publish, 
present, and contribute to exhibits and festivals that relate to the regions’ foodways and 
food landscapes—whether indigenous, old immigrant, new immigrant, or refugee. Personal 
interests in food, cooking, and cookbooks, inspired early in her western Oregon home, have 
now come full circle as she explores her mother’s and grandmother’s Pacific Northwestern-
Upper Midwestern food legacies and her nuclear and extended families’ related spatial, 
landscape, and architectural practices. 
 



 

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M. Dustin Knepp is Professor at California State University, Bakersfield.  He serves as 
Chair in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and teaches on themes 
related to Latin American and Latino cultures, border life, and foodways.  His research 
investigates the intersection of food, culture, and Latino identities, with particular attention 
to holiday food traditions and their impact through familial generations and in the historic 
record.  Some of his scholarship has appeared in Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural 
Encyclopedia (ed. Lucy Long, 2015), The Cincinnati Romance Review, The Journal of the 
American Studies Association of Texas, and Digest, of which he previously served as a Co-
editor. 
 
Michael Lange  
Michael A. Lange is Professor in the interdisciplinary Core Curriculum at Champlain College 
in Burlington, Vermont. He is the author of Norwegian Scots: An Anthropological 
Interpretation of Viking-Scottish Identity in the Orkney Islands (2007) and Meanings of Maple 
(2017), as well as several chapters and articles in journals such as Anatolia, Scandinavian-
Canadian Studies, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, and Voices: The 
Journal of New York Folklore. He has conducted research in Scotland, Norway, Morocco, and 
several parts of the US.  
 
Yvonne Lockwood is a folklorist who recently retired as Curator of Folklife at the 
Michigan State University Museum, directed the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprentice 
Program and Michigan Heritage Awards Program there, curated the public food 
presentations at the Festival of Michigan Folklife and the Great Lakes Folk Festival, and 
curated “Michigan Eats,” an interpretive exhibition that the Museum now tours. Other  
professional foodways activities include conference participation in the US and Europe  
and numerous publications. A long-time member of the Foodways Section, she co-  
edited Digest for a number of years with William G. Lockwood and judged student  
papers. She has extensive research experience in the former Yugoslavia, eastern Austria  
(Burgenland), and in the Upper Midwest, primarily in Finnish America, where she  
currently is researching foodways. She also often curates Finnish food demonstrations  
and workshops at the annual FinnFest USA.  
 
Lucy M. Long directs the independent nonprofit Center for Food and Culture 
(www.foodandculture.org) and teaches in American studies, ethnic studies, folklore, 
popular culture, nutrition, and tourism at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. With 
degrees in Folklore (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) and Ethnomusicology (M.A., 
University of Maryland), she focuses on food, music, and dance as mediums for meaning, 
identity, community, and power. Her publications include: Culinary 
Tourism (2004), Regional American Food Culture (2009), Ethnic American Food Today: A 
Cultural Encyclopedia (2015), The Food and Folklore Reader (2015), Ethnic American 
Cooking (2016), Honey: A Global History (2017), and Comfort Food Meanings and 
Memories (2017). In 2020, she ran a virtual oral history on Finding Comfort/Discomfort 
Through Foodways During the Covid-19 Pandemic, resulting in an online exhibit, virtual 
symposia, and publications. 
 

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LuAnne Roth teaches in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of 
Rhode Island where she offers a range of courses, including those related to food writing, 
food and culture, and food justice.  Roth’s research gravitates toward folklore, film/media, 
and food studies. Her foodways scholarship appears in the journals Digest (“Poison Is 
Poison”), Western Folklore (“Do the [White] Thing”), and Food, Culture and Society (“Beef, 
It’s What’s for Dinner”), and as chapters in What's Eating You?:  Food and Horror on 
Screen (“You Are What Others Think You Eat”), Comfort Food Meanings and 
Memories (“Comfort [and Discomfort] Food”), Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, 
Drag (“Sexing the Turkey”), and Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular 
Culture (“Beyond Communitas”).  Roth’s work is driven by an interest in how food 
behaviors are used to both reinforce and subvert ideologies related to class, ethnicity, 
gender, and race.  

https://harrington.uri.edu/meet/luanne-k-roth/ 
 
Robert James Smith, Ph.D., has an adjunct role as inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at 
Southern Cross University in Australia. Until recently he was Editor for the scholarly 
journal Australian Folklore. In addition to foodways, his research interests include 
contemporary memorial customs and regional folk culture.  
 
 
Diane Tye is Professor in the Department of Folklore, Memorial University. She  
researches intersections of folklore and gender, especially as they relate to foodways.  
She is author of Baking as Biography. A Life Story in Recipes (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010) and 
co-editor with Pauline Greenhill of Unsettling Assumptions. Gender,  
Tradition, Drag (Utah State UP, 2014).  
 
Katrina Wynn is a public library clerk after finishing up her five-and-a-half-year contract 
position as manager of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History at the 
University of Maine. She held that position since graduating from Western Kentucky 
University with an M.A. in Folk Studies. Katrina was a co-convener of the American Folklore 
Society’s Foodways Section for six years and has been a member of the section since 
starting graduate school.  
 
 

https://harrington.uri.edu/meet/luanne-k-roth/

