Jon Lee, PhD

Research Interests

• Folk Medicine
• Oral Narratives
• Folk Literature
• Urban Legends and the Supernatural
• Modern Poetry 
• Creative Writing

Select Publications

Books

• IN/DESIDERATO. Durham, North Carolina: Jacar Press, 2021
• An Epidemic of Rumors: How Stories Shape Our Perceptions of Disease. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2014.
• These Around Us. Hemet, California: Aldrich Press, 2014.
• Ode to Brian: The Long Season. Winside, Nebraska: Logan House Press, 2006.

Book Reviews

• “Review of Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health and Trauma.” Journal of American Folklore (forthcoming).
• “Review of From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children’s Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity.” Children’s Folklore Review 31 (2009).
• “Review of Véronique Campion-Vincent’s Organ Theft Legends.” Marvels & Tales 21.2 (2006).

Selected Conference Presentations

• “Tradition and Illness Narratives.” American Folklore Society, Long Beach, California, 2015.
• “A Troubling Tendency to Exist: New Strategies for Dealing with Harmful Narratives.” Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, Providence, Rhode Island, 2014.
• “The H1N1 Rumor Epidemic.” American Folklore Society, Nashville, Tennessee, 2010.
• “Full Circle: The Recycling of Disease Narratives.” International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, 2009.
• “‘Please Receive Communion Through Your Hands’: Personal and Communal Mediation of Stigma in the 2003 SARS Epidemic.” American Folklore Society, Québec City, Canada, 2007.
• “Private Actions in Public Spaces: SARS and Paradigm Violations." International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2007.
• “Public Reactions to the SARS Virus: Rumors, Panics and Pseudo-Preventatives.” International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Aberystwyth, Wales, 2004.

Awards & Honors

• Visiting Professor of Folklore, Utah State University, Spring 2015