Sarah N. Lawson

Grad student studying Comparative Literature and Folklore at Indiana University. Attending #AFSAM18.

For fiction writing, follow @sarahviehmann.

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Hello everyone! I'm consolidating my Twitter accounts. I didn't use this one much anyway, but I'm far more active on the other one. If you'd like to follow me at @SarahViehmann (the handle will also change soon), you'll see far more of me!

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Hello! If you followed this account because of #afsam19, please head over to @SarahNLawson and follow that account! I merged accounts this summer and use that one exclusively now, but didn't get a chance to update the conference program!

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Hello everyone! I'm consolidating my Twitter accounts. I didn't use this one much anyway, but I'm far more active on the other one. If you'd like to follow me at @SarahViehmann (the handle will also change soon), you'll see far more of me!

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Ahh, gotta love going off on a rabbit trail about the use of rape in an ATU 451 retelling when you'd meant to be talking narrative proportion.

Guess that's what revising for organization is for. 🤷

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

It feels strangely good to hole myself up in my house and just work on final papers. I haven't been able to dedicate that much extended attention to anything in months.

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Update: I forgot my chiropractor told me that my right leg is longer than my left which at least partly explains why my right inner heel of every shoe is the first to go.

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Lady/femme academics, I need shoe recommendations! All I want is a standard black boot with a low heel that will hold up to campus-crossing without disintegrating by the end of a semester or two. Help??

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Happy to say I've won the Newton P. Stallknecht Memorial Essay prize in Comparative Literature for my paper on transcription, translation, and transfiguration in the Grimms' "All-Ki ds-Of-Fur"!

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

I was about to quit grad school and my dream of a PhD, but my MA advisor said, "You have great fluency in this ... You don't need a new career, you need a new school." Now I'm three years into a PhD program.

[Amanda Deibert @amandadeibert]

Has a person ever encouraged you in a way that changed your life?

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

I'm having #PCAACA19 FOMO! No logistical way to fit it in this year, but maybe next year!

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

@foxyfolklorist @_katiedidnt *gasp* yes! I'd love to hear about this!

[John Fenn III @johnfenn3]

Hello, @QueerEye! While at the Library of Congress, drop by the American Folklife Center if you've got a few minutes. We have culture, @Karamo. We have foodways, @antoni. We have vernacular arch, @bobbyberk. We have costume and dress, @tanfrance. And, we have hairstyles, @jvn

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

My goal for the next academic year is to up my pedagogy game. Also my PowerPoint game. This tweet brought to you by watching Tom Mould show us his magic PowerPoint skills.

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

Great thread for #folklore friends!

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

It's that time of the semester where there's too much to do and I can only care *this much* about all of it. Oh, and I'm trying to compose exam lists on top of that. NICE.

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, especially since I attend graduate school in a town I *know* I won't stay in. I want to build those relationships now, but there's a large part of me that's "holding off" until I have a "stable job." (Yes, I'm an idealist.)

[Dr. Jeff "Castlevania" Tolbert @JeffreyATolbert]

I've ranted this rant before, but a legend is an ambiguous narrative which makes truth claims but is difficult or impossible to verify. A myth is a sacred truth. Neither is a patently false or erroneous statement, and neither connotes a lack of rationality or intellectual rigor.

[Sarah N. Lawson @SNLawsonCMLT]

@foxyfolklorist @briarspell I feel like I'll love it so much I'll explode. And I'll have something good to present next year, too!

[Dr. Andrea Kitta 🎃 👻 @AndreaKitta]

I've been studying #vaccine discourse since 2003, wrote a book on vaccination, wrote several articles on (you guessed it, vaccination) and I've *still* never been interviewed by a US media source. Sweden? Yes. UK? Yes. Canada? Oh hell yes. That's weird, right?