Jan Harold Brunvand
Author of The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
About the Author
He lives in Salt Lake City, where he is professor emeritus at the University of Utah. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Series
Works by Jan Harold Brunvand
A Guide for Collectors of Folklore in Utah (Vol. 7 of Univ. of Utah publications in the American West) (1971) 4 copies
Journal of American Folklore : July - September 1977 : volume 90 number 357 (1877) — Editor — 1 copy
The Architecture of Zion: Nineteeth-Century Mormon Houses: A Portfolio of Folk Architecture (1976) 1 copy
Urban Legends 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Brunvand, Jan Harold
- Birthdate
- 1933-03-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Michigan State University (BA|1955)
Michigan State University (MA| 1957)
University of Oslo
Indiana University (PhD|1961) - Occupations
- University of Idaho, Moscow, assistant professor of English
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
University of Utah
Indiana University - Relationships
- scholar of English language and literature
university professor - Organizations
- University of Idaho
Southern Illinois University
University of Utah
Indiana University - Awards and honors
- Fulbright scholar in Norway (1956-57)
Fulbright grant for Romania (1970-71)
Guggenheim fellow (1970-71)
fellow in Romania, International Research and Exchanges Board (1973-74, 1981)
fellow of Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
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