Carl Lindahl
Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-2955
- Email: clindahl@uh.edu
- Office: 224B Roy Cullen Building
Carl Lindahl, Martha Gano Houston Research Professor of English, is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society and an internationally recognized authority in medieval folklore, folktales and legends, festivals and celebrations, folklore fieldwork, and the ways in which folk cultures seek and exercise covert power. Among the folk cultures he has explored are French Americans (Cajun, Creoles, Canadians, and Caribbean) and the regional cultures of Texas, Appalachia, and the Ozarks. His many books and articles have received recognition in the United States and Europe.
Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana was named the Louisiana Humanities Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He has received the Alcée Fortier Award from the American Folklore society, and has won a University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award. His latest book, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, appeared in 2004. He has recently received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to spend the winter, spring, and summer of 2004-2005 conducting folktale research at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. While overseas, he will deliver the keynote address at the Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research in Tartu, Estonia (July 2005).
Education
- Ph.D., Indiana University
- M.A., Indiana University
- B.A., Harvard College
Research Interests
Folk narrative, American folktale, Cajun and Appalachian folk culture, medieval folklore
