Salt Lake City
Lisa Gabbert is Professor of Folklore Studies in the Department of English at Utah State University. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes, and she specializes in studies of landscape, festival, and occupational folklore.
She is the author of Winter Carnival in a Western Town: Identity, Change, and the Good of the Community (2011), which examined a winter carnival in McCall, Idaho and the creation of community identity in the context of recreational tourism. Her second book, An Introduction to Vernacular Culture in America was co-authored with Keiko Wells and published in Japan. Her new book The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore among Physicians, examines humor and folklore in medical contexts and will be published in August, 2024.
She lives in Salt Lake City with her family and enjoys hiking, skiing, paddleboarding, and gardening.