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Why Soulstepping?
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About the Author
 Elizabeth
C. Fine, Professor, holds a joint appointment in the Department of
Interdisciplinary Studies and the Department of Communication Studies at
Virginia Tech. She is currently Chair of the Department of
Interdisciplinary Studies.
She received her Ph.D. in
Communication from the University of Texas at Austin (1978), her M.A. in
Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley (1973), and her B.S.
in Speech Communication from the University of Texas at Austin (1971). She
was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1971, and the Outstanding
Dissertation Award in the Humanities from the University of Texas in 1978.
In 1993 she received the
Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and
Performance Studies. Fine's research interests include cultural studies,
African American folklore, performance studies, and Appalachian Studies.
She is an Associate Editor of Text and Performance Quarterly. Her
book The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print (Indiana
University Press, 1984, 1994) was selected by Choice as an
Outstanding Academic Book of 1985 and was awarded a Chicago Folklore
Prize. Performance, Culture, and Society, co-edited with Jean
Speer, was published by Praeger in 1992. Soulstepping: African American
Step Shows, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003.
Her articles have been
published in such journals as the Journal of American Folklore,
Semiotica, Communication Monographs, Communication Education,
Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, National Women’s
Studies Association Journal, Southern Folklore, Literature
in Performance, Annals of Tourism Research, Sprache und
Sprechen, and The Drama Review, as well as in numerous books.
She has also produced and directed several documentaries, including The
Patient Art: Weaving the Tampa Tapestries and Up and Down These
Roads: A Rural County in Transition.
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