Lepselter, Susan – Anthropologist, Educator
Susan Lepselter – “Dreaming Across Cultures”
Books: The Resonance of Unseen Things, E.T. culture: anthropology in outerspaces edited by Debbora Battaglia
Publications:
“The License.” In Writing Outer Spaces, ed. Debbora Battaglia. Duke University Press, 2005.
“Why Rachel Isn’t Buried in her Grave.” In Histories of the Future, eds. Susan Harding and Daniel Rosenberg. Duke University Press, 2005.
“The Politics and Poetics of Folklore: The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1937-1947.” Roma (44-45), 1998.
From the Earth Native’s Point of View: The Earth, The Extraterrestrial and the Natural Ground of Home.” Public Culture 9(2): 197-208, 1997.
Topic of Transformation: Some Aspects of Myth and Metaphor.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10: 148-160, 1993.
Courses Taught:
CMCL-C450 Gender, Culture and Narrative
CMCL-C314/ AMST 350 American Captivity
Stories of everyday life: media, ethnography and the representation of the self
Seminar: Ethnophenomenologies Discourses of Repression: The poetics and politics of American Trauma
Source: Performance and Ethnography: Faculty
More Writings:
Susan Lepselter Awarded the 2017 Bateson Prize by Karen Strassler – Cultural Anthropology – CulAnth.org
The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny (University of Michigan Press)
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- Anthropological Perspectives of the Transformative UFO Scene by Susan Lepselter – ELFIS Issue 2, Fall ’94
- E.T. culture: anthropology in outerspaces edited by Debbora Battaglia
- The Flight of the Ordinary: Narrative, Poetics, Power and UFOs in the American Uncanny – 2005 PhD, Susan Lepselter, (University of Texas PDF) – Austin [Dissertation] (Scribd)