Office Number and Phone: 
   220 Sanford  
   828 262-2350
Email:  conwayec@appstate.edu

Spring 2007 Office Hours:
Fellow in Residence at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

1st Semester Summer 2008:
English 4800 & AS 4530/AS 5530:  Folklore Fieldwork
Fall 2008:
English 1510 Freshman English TR 2:00
English 3710 Women and Literature TR 12:30
Appalachian Studies 4015/5015 Old Time Music Traditions Wed 6-9

Education:
Duke University English, BA & MA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD.

Academic Specialties:
Folklore: Roots of Mountain Music (African Roots of the Banjo; Ballad Keepers)
Appalachian Culture & Literature
20th C American Literature

Relevant publications:
African Roots of Old Time Banjo & Fiddle Media Lecture with live music,
        Center for Black Music Research, Chicago & VFH, Charlottesville, 2005-6, 2008.
Mountain Banjo and Dulcimer Maker Clifford Glenn Video.
         BRFI, NEA, NCAC, ASU, NC Tourism Office, 2004-8
My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell (w Les Blank) Anthologized on
         Oxford American Magazine’s 1st DVD, 2007.  (NEA, NC Film & Flower Film Project, 1994.)
Mountain Banjos, African Roots, and Influences Exhibit, Guest Curator, Appalachian
        Cultural Museum & 1st Ever Black Banjo Gathering, Co-Organizer (April 7-10, 2005)
Robert Morgan’s Lucid Poetry Video, Cane Creek & ASU.
Black Banjo Songsters of NC and VA CD & notes [Co-] Producer, Smithsonian Folkways, NEA, 1998
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia. U of Tennessee Press & American Folklore Society, 1995


Awards & Grants:
2008-9     ASU Foundation Fellow
2008        Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellow
2005-present        African Roots of Old Time Fiddle & Banjo Video, NEA, $20,000.
                            Black Banjo Songster CD #2, SF (VFH, NCAC, ASU, NEH, NEA).
                            Go Back and Fetch It: Black Banjo Gathering 2005 Video, NCHC
                            Black Banjo Songster Rufus Kasey Video, w E. Simon. BRFI, VFH, & ASU