Co-author Network
Map of Science
Co-investigator Network
Andrea Kitta
Affiliation
Publications
selected publications
presentations
-
presentation
- Finding Joy in Darkness, Roundtable Finding Joy: The Affective Dimensions of Folklore., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2024
-
Conspiracy Theories, Folklore, and Belief: Birds Aren't Real, Loch Ness Monsters, and Microchips.
, Benjamin A. Botkin Folklife Lecture, Library of Congress 2024 - God Gave Me an Immune System: Religious Belief, Anti-masking, and Anti-Vaccination Sentiments Online in the United States During COVID, Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2024
- In Search of Aromatic Treasures: Legend Tripping and Occupational Legends inVietnam's Agarwood Industry with Ngan Nguyen Thi Kim., International Society for Contemporary Legend Research Annual Meeting 2024
- "Uncertain Terrains in the Everyday," Plenary Lecture., International Society for Ethnology and Folklore 2023
- Lab Leaks, Bat Soup, and Common Cures: Folklore in the Time of COVID, Alan Dundes Folklore Lecture, University of California, Berkley. 2023
- "What exactly were they doing with that bat anyway? COVID Legends and Conspiracy Theories" October 4-7, 2022, Lund University, Sweden. 2022
- Are You Helping or Are You Just Buttering the Cat?: Jorts and Disability Twitter., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2022
- How to have Theory in a Pandemic: Precarity, Autoethnography, and Belief Scholarship during COVID, The Don Yoder Memorial Lecture in Folk Belief and Religious Folklife, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2022
- Fellows Follow-up Discussion of Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristics Engagements with Disability, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2022
- Understanding Folklore and Medicine I: How Knowledge of Medical Legends, Belief, and Folk Healing Systems Can Improve the Study of Health, Public Outreach, and the Treatment of Patients. Panel Chair and Discussant. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 20, 2021. Virtual., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2021
- Understanding Folklore and Medicine II: Folkloristic Research, Public Health, and Medical Professionals. Panel Chair and Discussant. October 21, 2021. Harrisburg, PA., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2021
- Vaccine Hunters and Fake Grannies: Distribution and Equity of the COVID-19 Vaccine. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 18, 2021. Virtual., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2021
- Communicating about COVID: Understanding how Folklore affects Medical Decision Making and what to do about it. Communities for Immunity Program: Western Kentucky University. September 30, 2021. Virtual. 2021
- Covid 19: Impacts on IPE and Proposed Strategies for Future Advancement, Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) conference 2021
- Unlikely Partners: Redefining the Interprofessional Health Care Team, Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) conference 2021
- Narratives About COVID-19 Prevention: Uncovering Rural Community Hesitancy, Teaching, Prevention 2021: Promoting Adaptability, Resiliency, and Sustainability Annual Meeting 2021
- Panel Discussant, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics International Panel Discussion in Collaboration with the World Medical Association on Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and Vaccine Hesitancy. March 21, 2021. University of Haifa, Melbourne, Australia. Virtual., UNESCO Chair in Bioethics International Panel Discussion in Collaboration with the World Medical Association on Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and Vaccine Hesitancy 2021
- God is My Vaccine, Invited Lecture, University of Bern, Switzerland. 2021
- Day of Straws and Folklore. December 2, 2020. Sirius Arts Centre, Cork County, Ireland. Virtual 2020
- COVID-19: Why Folklore is More Important than Ever. 2020 Fife Folklore Honor Lecture and Keynote Lecture for Utah Folklore Society, November 14, 2020. Virtual., 2020 Fife Honor Lecture and Keynote Lecture for Utah State University and the Utah Folklore Society 2020
- Making Changes with COVID: Possibilities for Living and Learning. November 25, 2020. The Interdisciplinary Nexus Center at Memorial University. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Virtual. 2020
- Author Meets Critics: Tom Mould's Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 14, 2020. Virtual., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2020
- Radical Death Reads: The Kiss of Death by Andrea Kitta. The Radical Death Studies Collective. October 17 & 18, 2020. Virtual., Radical Death Reads for the Radical Death Studies Collective 2020
- Using Social Media to Promote Folklore, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting. October 14, 2020. Virtual., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2020
- Dialogues in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Public Acceptance of Vaccines. September 16, 2020. Virtual., Dialogues in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2020
- Slender Man: The Academic Story of Folklore, the Supernatural, and You, Phenomenacon, September 18, 2020. Virtual., Phenomenacon 2020
- COVID-19 Folklore, Texas Folklife, August 20-21, 2020, Virtual., Texas Folklife 2020
- History of the Antivaccination Movement., Wayne Community College Lecture Series 2019
- Vaccination: Legend, Rumor, and Alternative Facts., Addressing the Vaccine Crisis: The Digital World, Big Data, and Public Health. 2019
- New Directions Forum: The Ethics of Digital Fieldwork., American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2019
- Constructions of Home and Family in the Supernatural in Queer Ghost Hunters, Ghosts in the Hood, and Ghost Brothers., Folklore Studies Association of Canada Annual Meeting 2019
- Slender Man and the Experience of the Supernatural, Discovery Themes Lecture, The Ohio State University 2019
- Slender Man and the Unacknowledged Common Experience, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Invited Lecture 2019
- A Death on Campus: Campus Ghosts Walks as Teaching and Academic Experiment, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2018
- Slender Man and the Unacknowledged Common Experience of the Supernatural, Supernatural in Contemporary Society 2018
- Vaccination Myths., Thinking on Sundays. Conway Hall Ethical Society, London, UK 2018
- Fake News, Folk News, and Contemporary Legends: Information and Belief in the Age of #Alternative Facts (with Lynne S. McNeill)., International Society for Contemporary Legend Research Annual Meeting 2018
- Slender Man and the Unacknowledged Common Experience., The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Legends. London Fortean Society. 2018
- The Ghost Walk as Teaching and Research Tool., International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 2018
- Responding to Challenges in Healthcare Through Various Methodological Approaches., Conference on College Composition and Communication 2018
- Alternative Health Websites and Fake News: Taking a Stab at Definition, Genre, and Belief., American Folklore Society's Annual Meeting 2017
- Professional Development Workshop: Communicating about the Field., American Folklore Society's Annual Meeting 2017
- Folklore Cheerleaders and Academic A$$holes: Getting Others to Take Folklore Seriously While Remaining a Serious Folklorist (with Lynne S. McNeill and Trevor J. Blank)., Future of American Folkloristics Conference 2017
- Folklore and Science Roundtable (with Tim Frendy and Greg Schrempp)., Future of American Folkloristics Conference 2017
- Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me, East Carolina University 2017
- Vaccination: Legend, Rumor, and Alternative Facts Throughout History., Osler Library, McGill University 2017
- Vaccines, Slender Man, and Sea Monsters: A Scholarly Life in Alternative Methodology, Nexus Interdiscplinary Conference 2016
- Slender Man Goes Viral: Suicide, Violence, and Slender Sickness in the Slender Man Phenomena., American Folklore Society 2016
- Patient Zero, Outbreak Narratives, and the 2015 Disneyland Measles Outbreak, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 2015
- The Power of Stories: Folklore, Urban Legends, and Medicine, Arts@Science, East Carolina University 2014
- Untellibility and the Stigmatized Vernacular Among Dancers with Chronic Pain., American Folklore Society 2014
- The History of the Anti-vaccination Movement and Perceptions of Vaccines, History of Medicine Lecture Series 2010
- Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Understand Public Concerns and Provide Information, Canadian Immunization Conference 2010
- From the Hip: A Middle Eastern Dancer's Perspective of Dance and Worldview, American Folklore Society 2002
Research
principal investigator on
- SPARC Grant awarded by East Carolina University 2023
- Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Reassignment Award, Spring 2020 awarded by Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences 2019
- Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Summer Research Award, Summer 2019. awarded by Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences 2018
- Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Conference Grant 2016
- Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research 2007
- Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research 2006
- Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research 2005
co-principal investigator on
investigator on
Service
professional service activities
- Chair of the Don Yoder Lecture at the American Folklore Society's Annual Conference 2023
- Nomination Committee, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 2018 - 2022
- Lifetime achievement award for the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 2016 - 2022
- Journal, Folk, Knowledge, and Place 2022
- Lifetime Achievement Awards Committee, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 2015 - 2021
- Contemporary Legend 2014 - 2020
- International Society of Contemporary Legend Research 2014 - 2020
- Journal of American Folklore 2019
- New Directions in Folklore 2019
- Media and Public Outreach Committee, American Folklore Society. 2018
- Task force on disability for the American Folklore Society 2017
- American Folklore Society Co-Chair for the Belief Section's Silent Auction which funds the entire Belief Section 2017
- Western Folklore 2015
- Medical Humanities Reviewed article on vaccination in Sweden for Medical Humaities. 2014
- Oral Tradition 2013
- National Science Foundation 2012
- North Carolina Folklore Society 2011
- Journal of Folklore Research 2011
- Vaccine 2011