Ballot Archive

09 Dec 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Essaka Joshua

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA (Oxford) PhD (Birmingham)

Profession or occupation

Associate Professor

Grounds for election

Dr Joshua is a widely distinguished scholar of British folklore and European myth. Her most important contribution to date on the former is _The Romantics and the May Day Tradition_ (2007, repr. 2018), which was shortlisted for the Folklore Society's 2008 Katherine Briggs Award. She is currently working on a book on disability and folklore. Her work on European myth includes her first book, _Pygmalion and Galatea: The History of a Narrative_ (2001). She has an exceptional knowledge of the forms and reception of folklore understood as part of the oral, textual, and visual antiquities of the British Isles in particular.

Signatories

The following Fellows have signed this Blue Paper