Associate Professor, cross-appointed with Music

B.A. (Texas at Austin)
M.A. (Memorial)
Ph.D. (Memorial)

hjeverett@mun.ca
709-864-8409
ED4050, Education Bldg.

Holly Everett is cross-appointed with the School of Music. Her research interests include belief, material culture, music, occupational folklife, popular culture, and tourism. Dr. Everett’s editorial work includes serving as English Language Book Review Editor for Material Culture Review and on the editorial board of Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. Her work has been published in Contemporary Legend, Cuizine, Ethnologies, Folklore, The Journal of American Folklore, Popular Music and Society, and The Folklore Historian, among others. Her book on roadside memorials, Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture, was published by the University of North Texas Press.

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Select Publications

"Gravemarkers and Memorial Assemblages," Chapter 19 in The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife.  Ed. Simon Bronner. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019.

"'Do You Play Newfoundland Music?': Tracking Traditional Music and the Tourist Imaginary." MusiCultures 42.2 (2016): 1-18.

“Food, Class and the Self: Seal Flipper Pie and Class Conflict.” Food for Thought: A Multidisciplinary Discussion. Ed. Robert Scott Stewart and Susan A. Korol. 71-97. Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press, 2012.

"Vernacular Health Moralities and Culinary Tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador." Journal of American Folklore 122 (2009): 28-52.

"'Passing Through Nature to Eternity': Roadside Crosses in 'America's Hometown.'" Proc. of First International Symposium on Roadside Memorials on Roadside Memorials, June 2004, University of New England, Armidale. Ed. Jennifer Clark. 119-139. Armidale, Australia: EMU Press, 2007.

Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2002.