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Dr. Jeff "Castlevania" Tolbert

@JeffreyATolbert

Academic folklorist. Assist. prof. @ Penn State Harrisburg. Belief, pop culture, horror. Views my own. RT/follow≠endorsement. He/him. Anti-fascist. #BLM

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Joined October 2017
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Angela Davis@AngelaDavisMPR28 Oct 2022
Are you planning to watch some scary movies this weekend leading up to Halloween? Monday at 9am @MPRnews, I'll talk about the appeal of horror & creepy things. Guests: @emilyvdw @voxdotcom @JeffreyATolbert @psuharrisburg. Call 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828. mprnews.org/episode/2022/10/…

What can horror movies teach us about ourselves and our society?

People have been telling stories about monsters, ghosts and the supernatural for centuries. But why does horror appeal to us? What can scary stories teach us about ourselves and society? Coming up at...

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Dawn Keetley@DawnKeetley17 Oct 2022
It's inching to life from the wonderful @UniWalesPress - & with fantastic co-editor and contributors @RuthHeholt @JeffreyATolbert @ianbrunswick @LancasterGothic @bkkgothic @MurphGothic @DavidDevanny among others! #folkhorror #horror uwp.co.uk/book/folk-horror/
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One of my favorite songs of all time and a serious mood today. youtube.com/watch?v=Grh-tWP4… @EGO_WRAPPIN_JP
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you ever wish you could restart your life from an earlier save point like it was goddamned Dragon Quest
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Oh, academics. If you're gonna criticize something, you should really read it first.
Folklore & lit friends, any thoughts?
Ellen Stockstill (@ejstockstill) profile pictureEllen Stockstill@ejstockstill14 Sep 2022
Need good classroom activities for a gen ed class reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
My favorite genre of tweet is the one where people complain about other people complaining about something they like. If you can't handle people not liking something you do, mayyyyyyybe the Internet isn't the best place for you to hang out.
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We owe it to potential graduate students to prepare them for the realities they'll face BEFORE admitting them to our programs. Here are some sobering reminders for people interested in studying folklore. All were searches today for TT positions with the keyword "folklore."
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Minor correction: the jobs.ac.uk search was for permanent positions, rather than TT as in the US-based job sites.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: scholarship is criticism. And criticism is not inherently negative. Criticism means thinking seriously with and about the ideas with which we are presented. This is the core of scholarship.
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No one produces perfect work on the first go. Not in academia, anyway. We draft, we revise, we rethink & rewrite, the same as people who create other forms of writing do. Peer review is an additional step which helps ensure our work aligns with our profession's expectations.
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We need to normalize not being perfect & accepting constructive criticism in the spirit that it's given. Yes, there are plenty of Reviewer 2s out there. Sometimes feedback is not constructive, but petty. But criticism is not synonymous with insult.
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.@IGADublin2022 About to head up to Gravediggers (@thegravedigger2), if any other conference folks are interested in joining!
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