Daniel Wojcik, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)
Statement
My interests include contemporary folklore studies, urban ethnology, and cultural theory; apocalyptic beliefs and millenarian movements; vernacular religion and alternative spiritualities; and “outsider” and visionary artists.
Publications
Books:
The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in
Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art. University Press of
Selected Essays:
"Avertive Apocalypticism." In the Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, ed. Catherine Wessinger, pp. 66-88. Oxford University Press, 2011.
"Spirits, Apparitions, and Traditions of Supernatural Photography." Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation 25, no. 1-2 (March-June 2009): 109-136. Special Issue, Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies in Religious and Cultural Contexts.
"Pre's Rock: Pilgrimage, Ritual, and Runners' Traditions at the Roadside Shrine for Steve Prefontaine." In Shrines and Pilgrimage in Contemporary Society: New Itineraries into the Sacred, ed. Peter Jan Margry. University of Amsterdam Press (2008).
"Outsider Art, Vernacular Traditions, Trauma, and Creativity." Western Folklore, no. 2 & 3 (Winter 2008).
"Visionary Artists." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, ed. Anand Prahlad, pp. 1343-1352. Greenwood Press (2006).
"Apocalyptic and Millenarian Aspects of American UFOism." In UFO Religions, ed. Christopher Partridge, pp. 274-300. Routledge (2003).
"Polaroids from Heaven: Photography, Folk Religion, and the Miraculous Image Tradition at a Marian Apparition Site,” Journal of American Folklore 109 (1996): 129-48.
"Embracing Doomsday: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Nuclear Age." Western Folklore 55, no. 4 (1996): 297-330.
Courses Taught
- Folklore and Popular Culture
- Folklore of Subcultures
- Folklore and Religion
- Folk Art, Visionary Art, and Material Culture
- History and Theory of Folklore Research
- American Folklore
- Introduction to Folklore
- Folklore and the Supernatural
