Jan Harold Brunvand
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Jan Harold Brunvand is an American retired folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah.
Brunvand in 2023
Benjamin Radford and Jan Brunvand at the 2014 American Folklore Society conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jan Harold Brunvand trying on a pair of ski goggles on his 75th birthday
Richard Dorson
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Richard Mercer Dorson was an American folklorist, professor, and director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. Dorson has been called the "father of American folklore" and "the dominant fo
Jan Harold Brunvand
…served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth and was discharged with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. While attending Michigan State, Brunvand met Richard Dorson, a folklorist and professor, who became a mentor. Brunvand took an undergraduate American Folklore course Dorson offered in the fall quarter of 1954…
Richard M. Dorson
Dorson criticized the commercialization of folk traditions, specifically that of Paul Bunyan.