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Aalders, Julie (2011) "I've learn'd to sing a glad new song": singing sacred harp with the Ottawa shape note chorus. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Alburo, Alice Jade A. (2002) Box populi : a socio-cultural study of the Filipino American balikbayan box. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Allen, Lucy H. (2001) Vernacular music brokers and mediators in the South 1900-1932. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Antal, Andrea (2011) Food and catering in one woman's creative performance of ethnic and gender identity. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ashton, John (1985) A study of the lumbercamp song tradition in Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Baker, Jedediah (2008) Help! I need somebody (not just anybody): the folktale's helper in personal experience narratives of recovering alcoholics. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bennett, Margaret (1975) Some aspects of the Scottish Gaelic traditions of the Codroy Valley, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bethune, Caitlin (2015) Rain city chronicles: storytelling and authenticity in Vancouver, BC. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bishop, Julia C. (1992) The song complex of The moonshine can : an integrated approach to the study of words and music in traditional song. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Blythe, Christine (2018) Vernacular theology: home birth and the Mormon tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bodner, John M. (1998) Slash romance: an ethnography and occupational folklife study of an Ontario treeplanting camp. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Boe, David Stewart (1982) A musical analysis of folktunes from Deseronto, Ontario. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bold, Valentina (1990) James Hogg and the traditional culture of the Scottish borders. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bowman, Marion Irene (1985) Devotion to St. Gerard Majella in Newfoundland : the saint system in operation and transition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Boyd, Cynthia (2013) Reading women's home and garden lives: a folkloristic examination of English gardening books of Marion Cran. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Boyd, Cynthia (1992) An occupational-biographical study of William Winter (1863-1936): an analysis of a furniture maker and furniture making process in Clarke's Beach, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Brauner, Cheryl Anne. (1983) A study of the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Folk Foundation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bringerud, Lydia (2019) Whose tradition? Adapting Orthodox Christianity in North America. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Brodie, Ian Bernard (2009) Stand-up comedy : a folkloristic approach. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Brown, Christopher A. (2013) Part of the hive: an immersion in the folklife of the beekeepers of the greater Pittsburgh Area. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Brown, Sheila MacKenzie. (1981) The church bell tradition in Newfoundland : a reflection of culture change. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Burns, Jane (2007) Everyday objects as mediators of self: a material culture study of work, home and community in the pulp and paper town of Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Burns, Mary Elizabeth Jane (1982) An oral history of the 1979 strike at the St. John's Evening Telegram. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Butler, Gary Reginald (1985) Supernatural folk belief expression in a French-Newfoundland community: a study of expressive form, communicative process, and social function in L'Anse-a-Canards. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Butt, William Clouston (1986) Richard Wells : a Newfoundland storyteller and aspects of his storytelling. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Byrne, Pat (1994) Folk tradition, literature, and a society in transition : Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Caldeira, Olivia (2016) Facing stigma, negotiating expectations, and exploring identities in a special olympics group transitioning into adulthood. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Carr, Sujittra Avery (2024) An examination of the parking goddess and gendered vulnerability on the US West Coast. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Carroll, Patrick (2008) How a community understands its past: oral history, archaeology and identity in Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Carroll, Kayla (2015) An occupational folklife study of women's housework in St. Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Cartwright, Christine A. (Christine Ann) (1983) Charismatic culture in St. John's, Newfoundland : a crossdenominational study of religious folklife in three groups. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Casey, George J. (1971) Traditions and neighbourhoods : the folklife of a Newfoundland fishing outport. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Catherwood, Kristin (2015) "Every place had a barn": the barn as a symbol of the family farm in southern Saskatchewan. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Chassé, Maeghan (2019) There's no place like home: a study on World War II war brides and their families in Northwestern Ontario. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Christie, Annemarie (2016) Powder-horns, pump organs and pews: tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the preservation of a 19th century wooden church in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Coldwell, Joyce Ione Harrington (1977) Treasure stories and beliefs in Atlantic Canada. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Coles, Keith Ralph (1998) Children's games and social change in Savage Cove, Newfoundland (1900-1992). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Columbus Doyle, Erin (2005) The community is the culture: festivity, community identity and ethnicity at the Antigonish Highland Games. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Condon, Eileen M. (1992) Confirmation: a folklore ethnography of Roman Catholic parish practice in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Condon, Eileen M. (1999) Impossible knowledge - extraordinary simultaneous experience narratives as vernacular forms of philosophy. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Coristine, Pamela E. (2002) The landscape of home - the role of Signal Hill in the emergence of a sense of identity and place in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Cousins, John Robert (1990) Horses in the folklife of western Prince Edward Island : custom, belief and oral tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Coviello, Elizabeth Anne (2005) The incorporation of popular culture into Newfoundland school children's narratives. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Cox, Gordon S. A. (1976) Some aspects of the folk music complex of a Newfoundland outport. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Crocker, Madelyn Jean (2002) The Argin' Ground : a social locus in Trout River circa 1920 - present. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Crocker, Abigail (2021) "He stuns yer arse": Jack tales in contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dargan, Mary Amanda (1979) Family identity and the social use of folklore : a South Carolina family tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Desplanques, Marie-Annick (1991) Women, folklore and communication : informal social gatherings in a Franco-Newfoundland context. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Després, Sébastien Adrien (2006) Belief and identity through the production of music in the Roman Catholic liturgy: an ethnography of La Sainte Famille Parish Unity's youth musical ensemble, Shaída. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dettmer, Elke (1993) An analysis of the concept of folklorism with specific reference to the folk culture of Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dignam, Natalie (2019) The craft beer network: inside Newfoundland's craft beer boom. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Doucette, Laurel Catherine (1977) Skill and status: traditional expertise within a rural Canadian family. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Doucette, Laurel Catherine (1985) The emergence of new expressive skills in retirement and later life in contemporary Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Drover, John Francis Edward (2003) Potentials, currents, power and resistance : a queer look at the circuit. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dunsiger, Jane Catherine (1982) A comparative study of narrative accounts of visits home drawn from the immigrant ethnic community in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dwyer, Paul (2000) The design, construction and use of the Bay of Islands dory: a study in tradition and culture. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dyck, Brittany (2023) “All the other kids with the pumped up kicks” - an investigation of school shooting jokes told by American teenagers on TikTok. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Era, Mahmuda Iasmin (2023) The 'Swadeshi Jinish' from the 'Didima Company': an analysis of the connection between Thakurmar Jhuli by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder and nationalism in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Esquivel Suárez, Mariana (2021) A country full of Lloronas: La Llorona as a protest symbol against enforced disappearances in Mexico. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Etaati, Saeedeh Niktab (2017) Sharpening the sword and rounding the shield: online jokes and the vernacular response to political reform in Iran. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Everett, Holly J. (2005) Class acts: culinary tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador. PhD thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Everett, Holly Jeannine (1998) Crossroads : roadside accident memorials in and around Austin, Texas. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ferguson, Mark (1996) Making fish : salt-cod processing on the east coast of Newfoundland, a study in historic occupational folklife. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fleming, Kathleen (2021) “Taken by the fairies” An examination of contemporary fairy commodification and culture in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fraser, Joy (2005) Never give up the ghost: an analysis of three Edinburgh ghost tour companies. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fraser, Ingrid A. (1981) Public tradition in an urban context: an occupational folklore study of musicians in St. John's. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fraser, Joy (2011) A taste of Scotland?: representing and contesting Scottishness in expressive culture about haggis. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Froebe, Candace Marie (2011) Loving intentions: a look at contemporary Mennonite intentional communities. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fugarino, Virginia S. (2015) "Every hurricane leaves you with different priorities": preparation, cultural response, and narrative entitlement. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fulton, Patricia Lynne (1989) Social and personal values and attitudes of Newfoundland lightkeepers : a dyadic life history of a married couple. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Gholson, Martha Rachel (2001) Folklore of Southern literature as folkloristic process : portrayals of the Cane River region in the short stories of Louisiana's Ada Jack Carver. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Gillett, Heather Roselle (2008) "What is a brickmaker?" : an occupational folklife study of the brick industry in Chipman, New Brunswick. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Gould, Jillian (2009) Heimish and home-ish: aging, Jewishness and the creation of home at a Toronto assisted-living residence, the Terraces of Baycrest. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Grant, Jessica (2001) The social costs of cooking from scratch: approaching my mother's brownie recipe. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Grant Jørgensen, Jessica (2010) Playing with the Kersley Players : contemporary folk drama in a British Columbia community a thesis in five acts. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Gray, Pamela J. (1977) Traditional Newfoundland foodways : origin, adaptation and changesongs of the shantymen. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Greenhill, Pauline (1980) Record, communication, entertainment: a functional study of two family photograph collections in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hall, Pam (2013) Recruiting the visual: knowing our commonplace towards an encyclopedia of local knowledge. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Halley, Morgiana P. (1989) Marine disasters in Newfoundland folk balladry including a classificatory system for sea disaster narrative. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hart, Susan M. (1986) "We laugh at the world around us" : the folklore of a young male friendship group. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hartmann, Nicholas Andrew (2015) Vernacular perceptions of masculinity and fatherhood among Newfoundland offshore workers and their families. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Haruna, Zainab K. (1998) Bura folksongs : an analysis of their types, occasions, themes, techniques and functions. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Henderson, Lizanne (1997) The guid neighbours : fairy belief in early modern Scotland, 1500-1800. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hirschfeld Shibley, Wyatt (2024) Domestic ethnicity: the Lebanese diaspora in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hiscock, Philip (1994) The Barrelman radio programme, 1937-1943: the mediation and use of folklore in Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hiscock, Philip (1986) Folklore and popular culture in early Newfoundland radio broadcasting : an analysis of occupational narrative, oral history and song repertoire. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hohmann, Delf Maria (1993) Play and games in Southern Harbour : a performance oriented study of children's activities in a Newfoundland outport community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hollett, Michelle Lela (2012) Finding family through the trees : emotional meaning in felling, milling and building. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Horeth, Rebecca (2024) “In our own way”: tradition and transmission among later-generation Transylvanian Saxons in Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hornby, James John (1982) The fiddle on the island : fiddling tradition on Prince Edward Island. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Houlden, Penelope Daphne (1985) The expression of tradition: perennial gardening in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Huang, Qian (2019) Drinking tea in St. John's: a study of diasporic Chinese tea drinking and ethnic identity. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jack, Meghann E. (Meghann Elizabeth) (2018) Nineteenth-century barns in St. Mary's, Nova Scotia. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jack, Meghann E. (Meghann Elizabeth) (2010) (Re)visiting the industrial past : representation and meaning at Nova Scotia's museum of industry. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jackson, Susan Helen (1973) Some masking customs of German-speaking central Europe : a descriptive survey. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jarvis, Dale Gilbert (2001) Architectural change and architectural meaning in Moravian Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jing, Zhang (2017) Variable icons and images: Mulan and her legend in five legend-telling groups in Huangpi, People's Republic of China. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kahn, Alison Joanne (1983) The Jews of St. John's, Newfoundland : a rhetorical approach to a community autobiography. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kearney, Peter (1985) Oral tradition and the Scottish coal mines. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kearney Guigné, Anna (1993) The "Dying child's wish complex" : a case study of the relationship between reality and tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kearney Guigné, Anna (2004) Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland outports: the cultural politics of a Newfoundland song collection. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Keeping, Neachel (2001) Telling the untellable : traditional beliefs related to violence against women in a rural Newfoundland community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kelso, Julia (1999) Death and real estate : a study of the impact of death beliefs on real estate values. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kibirkstis, Ema Noëlla (2023) Le goût d'Orval: constructing the taste of Orval beer through narratives. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kiigemagi, Cynthia A. (2022) Our Lady of the Island: Our Lady of Lourdes grotto reproduction and use in two Newfoundland communities. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kimiecik, Kathryn Mary (1987) Aspects of contemporary courtship in a rural Newfoundland community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

King, Heather Dawn (2012) Remote wilderness cabins on the Avalon Peninsula: male spaces and culture. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kitta, Andrea (2009) A shot in the dark : lay perception of inoculations and anti-vaccination discourse. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Knopp, Magdalyn A. (2022) Assumptions of Irishness in the fairylore of Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kodish, Debora G. (1977) Good friends and bad enemies: Robert W. Gordon and American folksong scholarship. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kosby, Joan Barbara (1978) An ethnography of the St. Albans Folk Music Club. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Koven, Mikel J. (1999) An ethnography of seeing : a proposed methodology for the ethnographic study of popular cinema. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kozar, Seana (1998) Deliberations between the covers : an audience-centred ethnography of Chinese popular fiction readers. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kozar, Seana (1993) Unmasking a "sitting ghost" : a cross-generic exploration of the Chinese heroine in stories told by Chinese in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Laba, Martin (1983) Narrative and talk : a study in the folkloric communication of everyday conversational exchange. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ladenheim, Melissa (1993) The making of a collection of carved birds by Andrew Zergenyi, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States : a bio-ethnographic study. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

LaDuke, John (2015) Hop houses in Otsego County, New York. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lafferty, Anne (2011) Male and Female. In a pair: the emotional atmosphere following a death and its intersection with gender and with public and semi-public space in Newfoundland through the 1960s and 1970s. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lamson, Cynthia (1978) "Bloody decks and a bumper crop": the rhetoric of counter-protest. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Langford Barlow, Cameron (2023) Queer and posthumanism interpretations of Newfoundland fairylore. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Learning, Jeffery M. (2009) Channels of communication : a study of folklore in the segmented online "communities" within massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Learning, Jeffery M. (2022) Dialogues of dominance: narrative, occupational folklore, & the bullying of public-school teachers. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Leary, Frances (2003) The Honey Island Swamp monster: the development and maintenance of a folk and commodified belief tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

LeBlanc, Julie Marie-Anne (2015) Marketing traditional and contemporary folklore: how microbreweries and community events process local legends and folklore in Québec. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lee, Jon D. (2008) SARS and illness narratives: an examination of an epidemic. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Li, Mu (2014) Wanderers between cultural boundaries: exploring the individual expressions of Chineseness in Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lines, Linda (2002) Folklore-in-education : a teaching tool in the classroom. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Liu, Jianxiang (1991) Continuation and acculturation : a study of foodways of three Chinese immigrant families in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lovatt, Melanie (2005) Personalising popular culture: the uses and functions of the mix tape. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lovelace, Martin J. (1975) The life history of a Dorset folk healer: the influence of personality on the modification of a traditional role. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lovelace, Martin J. (1983) The presentation of folklife in the biographies and autobiographies of English rural workers. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lowell, Mary Windsor (1976) Social interaction between townspeople and summer residents in the resort community of Nahant, Massachusetts. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lundrigan, Gary (2009) Occupational memories: selected narratives of seven retired Newfoundland men. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacCath-Moran, Ceallaigh S. (2024) Voices for the voiceless: animal rights activism in Canada. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfounland.

MacDonald, Shamus Y. (2017) “Dh’fheumadh iad àit’ a dheanamh” (They would have to make a Place): land and belonging in Gaelic Nova Scotia. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacDonald, Martha Jane (1986) Group identity in social gatherings : traditions and community on the Iona Peninsula, Cape Breton. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacDonald, Lynn Marie (1988) A survey of mat hooking traditions in central Nova Scotia, 1900-1985. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Machin, Lisa (2006) Public and private customs in the military: a case study of the observance of Remembrance Day by 56 Field Engineer Squadron, St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Mackay, John Wisdom (1995) Country music performance in northern Nova Scotia : an occupational study of Art Fitt, vernacular craftsman. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacKinnon, Richard Paul (1982) Carriage-making in St. John's, Newfoundland: a historical study of the products of a folk industry. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacKinnon, Richard Paul (1990) Vernacular architecture in the Codroy Valley: local and external influences on the development of a building tradition. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Macpherson, Natalie Dawn (1987) Talk, narrative, and social interaction in a Cape Breton general store. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacSween, Marie (2004) The road to resistance: the stories of four Cape Breton women. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Mason, Bruce Lionel (1991) Belief, explanation and rhetoric in the crop circle phenomenon of Southern England. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Mason, Bruce Lionel (2007) The creation of folk cultures on the internet: a proposed methodology of investigation with case studies. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Matte, Lynn Anne Marie (2006) Oral narratives of the 1929 Newfoundland tidal wave: narrative functions, gender roles and commodification. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McCarl, Robert Smith (1980) Occupational folklife : an examination of the expressive aspects of work culture with particular reference to fire fighters. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McDavid, Sara Jodi (2012) Counterclericalism: Vernacular commentary on the power of the catholic priest in atlantic Canada. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McDavid, Sara Jodi (2002) "We're dirty sons of bitches": residence rites of passage at a small maritime university. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McEwen, Annie Rosalind (2011) There was more strength in singing : community, identity, and the performance of memory in the folk of the sea choir, 1994-2000. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McGann, Joseph Clifford (2003) Dan R. MacDonald: Individual creativity in the Cape Breton fiddle tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McGuire, Andrea (2017) Hitchhiking in an age of suspicion: work techniques and personal experience narratives of hitchhiking in Newfoundland and Cape Breton. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McKechnie, Rhiannon (2010) With terror in their hearts: a structural and textual analysis of gender, transmission, and the enjoyment of horror in slasher films and contemporary legends. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McKinnon, Ian Francis (1989) Fiddling to fortune : the role of commercial recordings made by Cape Breton fiddlers in the fiddle music tradition of Cape Breton Island. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McNaughton, Janet Elizabeth (1989) The role of the Newfoundland midwife in traditional health care, 1900 to 1970. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McNaughton, Janet Elizabeth (1982) A study of the CPR-sponsored Quebec folk song and handicraft festivals, 1927-1930. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McNeill, Lynne Sullivan (2009) Serial collaboration: small world activities and the global community. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Mercer, Paul (1978) A bio-bibliography of Newfoundland songs in printed sources. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Moore, Sarah Janette (2017) "When I came out": coming out and personal experience narratives of LGBTQ persons in Newfoundland and Labrador. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Moreira, James (1995) Ballad worlds : structure, meaning, and the fictional landscapes in classical and broadside ballads in oral tradition. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Moreira, James (1984) The songs of the shantymen : composition and performance in a nineteenth century tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Morrison, Monica Sue (1977) "Small boy in small town" : an individual's response to the study of his own life. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Morritt, Noah James Andrew (2014) The making of Scotty Carmichael's Collingwood: folklore and vernacular history in a central Ontario shipbuilding community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Moyle, Jeremy (2018) House style and class in Victorian and Edwardian Dunedin, New Zealand, 1870-1910. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Murray, Hilda Emily Louise (1972) The traditional role of women in a Newfoundland fishing community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Myrick, Jean M. (1999) Belief and custom surrounding the Ouija board. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Neal, J. David (James David) (1999) Life on the rocks : environmental perceptions of the rock crawlers, a western American recreational community. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ní Shúilleabháin, Caoimhe (2004) The wren tradition and other visiting customs in Newfoundland and Ireland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Nippard, Leone Holly (2013) Fishing is not everything: the occupational folklife of guides at Pratt Falls salmon lodge. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Olender, Jenna (2005) View from the edge: vernacular theory and cyberpunk fandom. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Partyka, Justin (2001) The occupational folklife of a Norfolk lurcherman. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Patch, Rosie (2007) Contemporary hobby knitting: the preservation and reinvention of traditional craft. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Peere, Isabelle Marie,1956- (1992) Death and worldview in a ballad culture : the evidence of Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Pierce, Leslie (2009) Making a scene: an ethnography of participation in the St. John's independent rock music scene, circa 1985-1995. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Pietropaolo, Cristina (2011) So 'na Bujanes[a] in Canada: the language & poetry of Concetta Sinibaldi. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Planetta, Elizabeth Beaton. (1980) Sorcery beliefs and oral tradition in Cheticamp, Cape Breton. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Pocius, Gerald L. (1975) The place of burial : spatial focus of contact of the living with the dead in eastern areas of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Porter, Michelle. (2011) 'Tales in a tent': John Sampson's representation of Romanies. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Posen, I. Sheldon (1974) Song and singing traditions at children's summer camps. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Quigley, Colin Harding (1981) Folk dance and dance events in rural Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Rahn, Mildred L. (1993) Club 47: an historical ethnography of a folk-revival venue in North America, 1958-1968. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Read, Heather Anne Creighton (2007) Storying home in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Richardson, Amy (2019) The devil is a myth: the dynamic uses of the folkloresque within Hellboy and Fables. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Rieti, Barbara Gaye (1990) Newfoundland fairy traditions : a study in narrative and belief. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Robidoux, Michael A. (1999) Power-play : critical considerations of the meaningful universe of professional hockey. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Roubo, Kelly (2019) Narrating Waegook identity: building transitory foreign-teacher community through folklore in the Republic of Korea. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Roy, Purna (2013) Situational storytelling for children and young adults in Bengali households: a study of texts in contexts. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Rutherford, Clara Joan (2009) The place of the Labrador fishery in the folklife of a Newfoundland community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sadighjamali, Saeedeh (2012) Courtyard housing : a comparative study. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sanchini, Laura Marie Andrea (2009) "It's strange, we're not Italian but we're not Canadian either" : the performance of ethnic identity among young Montreal Italians. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sanchini, Laura Marie Andrea (2018) "We are the rug hooking capital of the world": understanding Chéticamp rugs (1927-2017). Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sarwar, Nadia (2019) (Re)Historicization of the past at the Royal Newfoundland Regiment gallery of The Rooms. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Saugeres, Lise (1991) Figgy Duff and Newfoundland culture. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Saunders, Sheila Maud (1982) Folklore, the school and the child: the role of formal education in children's calendar customs in a Newfoundland outport. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sawden, Kari (2018) Maps of our own making: practicing divination in 21st century Canada. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Schwoeffermann, Catherine Ann (1981) An exploration of the November fifth bonfire celebration in Brigus, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Scott, John Roper (1985) Personal experience narratives among professional sailors : generic keys to the study of an occupation. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Scott, John Roper (1974) The function of folkore in the interrelationship of the Newfoundland seal fishery and the home communities of the sealers. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Shultz, Sarah T. (2023) Spice, culinary tourism, and expressions of whiteness in London, England and Nashville, Tennessee. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Silvester, Niko (1999) There's a piece wad please a brownie : a comparative study of offerings to the fairies in traditional cultures and contemporary earth-centred religions. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Simmonds, Tara (2016) A qualitative exploration of complementary and alternative health beliefs and practices in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Small, Contessa (2015) Co-creating Harry Potter: children's fan-play, folklore and participatory culture. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Small, Contessa (1999) Occupational narratives of pulp and paper mill workers in Corner Brook, Newfoundland : a study in occupational folklife. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Small, Lawrence George (1971) Patterns in personal experience narratives: storytelling at cod harbour - a Newfoundland fishing community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Staple, Benjamin Harris (2024) Crack and release: a study of pirate culture, community, and folklore. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Staple, Benjamin (2010) Folklore of the virtual elves : social identity construction and performance in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Stepanek, Heidi J. (2000) An examination of folk-music-inspired composition in Canada through an analysis of settings of "Dans tous les cantons". Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Swackhammer, Robert McBeth (1979) "I'm a professional, but I'm not on records" : the reflection of a performer's self-image in his repertoire. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Taft, Michael (1977) The lyrics of race record blues, 1920-1942 : a semantic approach to the structural analysis of a formulaic system. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tallman, Richard Sensor (1974) The tall tale tradition and the teller : a biographical-contextual study of a storyteller, Robert Coffil of Blomidon, Nova Scotia. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Taylor, David Alan (1980) Boatbuilding in Winterton : the design, construction, and use of inshore fishing boats in a Newfoundland community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Taylor, David Alan (1989) A survey of traditional systems of boat design used in the vicinity of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and Hardangerfjord, Norway. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tennier-Stuart, Emma (2017) The performance of heritage tourism sites: communicate competence in two Cornish tourist villages. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Thomas, Gerald (1977) Stories, storytelling and storytellers in Newfoundland's French tradition: a study of the narrative art of four French Newfoundlanders. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Thomas, Gerald (1970) An analysis of the tall tale genre with particular reference to Phillippe d'Alcripe's La nouvelle fabrique des excellents traits de vérité (circa 1579); together with an annotated translation of the work. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Thurgood, Ranald (1999) Storytelling on the Gabarus-Framboise coast of Cape Breton : oral narrative repertoire analysis in a folk community. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tye, Diane (1988) Local characters and the community : a case study of tradition and individual nonconformity in the Maritimes. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tye, Diane (1981) A contextual study of a Newfoundland folk artist : Patrick J. Murphy, Bell Island. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Urquhart, Emily (2013) The 21st century outport: reimagining home in Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Urquhart, Emily (2008) "That nice gorgeous cusp" : social stratification in contemporary Newfoundland rug-hooking. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Verrall, Edith Ann (1975) The use of videotaping in folklore fieldwork : some problems in the transcription of a children's game. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Visos-Ely, Jade (2024) Transformative narratives: resisting and reinforcing patriarchy in reimagined fairy tales. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Wall, Stephen E. (2017) The men we sell ourselves: the communication of masculinities folklore through the medium of television advertising. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Walsh, Kristin Harris (2009) Dancing on the head of a pin: Irishness and vernacular dance in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Walsh, Kieran (2004) The Newfoundland and Labrador sea urchin fishery: popular knowledge, identity and occupational attitudes within the new fishery. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Wang, Xuan (2022) Naodongfang: an examination of meanings in Chinese wedding games and pranks. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Warren, John Phillip (2009) Moose hunting in Heart's Content, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Weir, Gail (1986) The Wabana iron ore miners of Bell Island, Conception Bay, Newfoundland : their occupational folklife and oral folk history. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Welch, Wendy (2006) Identity authority, artistic authority, markets and meaning: contemporary English-language storytellers examined. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Wheeler, Sandra (1999) Anchoring time : an ethnographic study of public responses to Elizabeth Margot Wall's paintings. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Widdowson, J. D. A. (John David Allison) (1972) Aspects of traditional verbal control : threats and threatening figures in Newfoundland folklore. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Wilson, Lisa Ann (2011) Iconography of the Newfoundland quilt: piecing together meaning on the Great Northern Peninsula. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Winter, Laura (2015) Bloody Mary in the mirror: a comparative examination of a living tradition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ye, Tanyan (2018) Somewhere in between: Chinese identity and community in St. John's as seen through Chinese restaurants. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Yoshimura, Ayako (2009) Oriental shop: an ethnography of material communication inside an Asian grocery store in Madison, Wisconsin. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Zhu, Nianqiang (1991) Told by the Newfoundland Chinese: a translation, contextual description and analysis of the jokes collected from two groups in the St. John's Chinese community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.