Philip Hiscock
B.A. (Memorial)
M.A. (Memorial)
Ph.D. (Memorial)
Dr. Philip Hiscock retired in 2017. He specialized in the folklore of Newfoundland and Labrador with active interests in language, folksong, relationships between folklore and popular culture, and the evolution of custom, publishing in all these areas. From 1979 to 1999 he was Archivist of the MUN Folklore and Language Archive and retained an active interest in field research, archival organization, and conservation. A managing member of the English Language Research Centre, he and his ELRC colleagues oversaw the digitization and on-line publication of the original workfiles of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and produced an on-line interactive dialect atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador. Hiscock taught both regional courses on Newfoundland and Labrador and topical courses on language, play, archiving, fieldwork, and the genres of folklore. Among the many theses he supervised were ones on the topics of the community of English-language teachers in South Korea, alternative music in 1990s St. John's, LGBT coming-out narratives, intentional communiuty living in Winnipeg, and a post-Moratorium fishermen's choir in Newfoundland.