Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tartaglia, Dominick, and Kaitlyn Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Anna Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, Jared L. Schmidt. 2023. “Becoming Folkwise: Sustaining Digital Community while Socially Distant.” Cultural Analysis (1): Pandemic & Politics.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2023. “Gaming Extinction: Representations of the Thylacine in Video Games.” Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger, edited by Gareth Linnard and Branden Holmes, 176-179. CSIRO Publishing [Book received 2023 Whitley Award for Historical Zoology].

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2023. “Narrating Perseverance: An Overview of Thylacines in Fiction.” Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger, edited by Gareth Linnard and Branden Holmes, 175. CSIRO Publishing [Book received 2023 Whitley Award for Historical Zoology].

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2022. “Giving Life to Legends: Material Representation of Ostensive Behavior.” Western Folklore. 82(1): 3-59.

Sleight-Price, Camille, Daisy Ahlstone, and Michelle Jones. 2018. “Forbidden Foodways: Tide Pods, Ostensive Practice, and Intergenerational Conflict.” Contemporary Legend 3, no. 8: 86-112.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2015. “Can Feminists be Funny?: Feminist Humor in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.” NOMAD, no. 14: 42-51.

Dissertation (2025)

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2025. “What Holds Us Together: Community, Ecology, and Folklore in the 21st Century.” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University.

Book Reviews

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2022. “Posthuman Folklore” by Tok Thompson. Western Folklore 81(1): 75-78.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2021. “Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective” by Quinn, Jocey, and Claudia Blandon. Disability Studies Quarterly 41(1).

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2019. “Culture and Value: Heritage, Tourism and Property” by Regina Bendix. Western Folklore 78(4): 357-359.

Other Publications

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2025. The Thylacine: The Life, Death, and Legends of the Tasmanian Tiger. Zine, Microcosm Publishing.

Ahlstone, Daisy and Ang DiNardo. 2024. “Fruit, Folklore and Future: Zines in the Writing Style of Folklorists.” Series of 14 self-published zines utilizing the algorithmic outputs of ChatGPT to demonstrate the use and interpretation of folklore scholarship by AI.

Tartaglia, Dom and Kaitlyn Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Anna Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, & Jared L. Schmidt. 2021. “A Case Study: Folkwise.” Folklore Advocacy Toolkit, American Folklore Society. 8 September 2021.

Forthcoming Publications

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2026. “MycoLore: A Fungal Guide to Folklore Studies.” BorderLore. July 2025. https://borderlore.org/

Ahlstone, Daisy and J. S. Jordan. 2026. “Wild Systems Theory and the Contextual Reality of Meaning: Folklore, Embodied Context, and Community” Journal of Folklore Research. Special Issue: Disturbed Traditions: Folklore in the Anthropocene.

Selected Refereed Conference Presentations

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2025. “MycoLore: How to Study Folklore like Fungi.” Presented at the American Folklore Society annual conference. Atlanta, GA. October 2025.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2025. “What is a Quilt About?: Wild Systems Theory, Embodied Context, and Folklore.” Presented at the Western States Folklore Society annual conference. Logan, UT. April 2025.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2025. “What is a Quilt About?: Wild Systems Theory, Embodied Context, and Folklore.” Presented at the IU/OSU Shared Traditions: More than Human Experiences conference. Columbus, OH. February 2025.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2024. “Wild Systems Theory, Embodied Context, and Folklore.” Presented at the American Folklore Society annual conference. Albuquerque, NM. November 2024.

Kuo, Kathleen, Daisy Ahlstone, Chrissy Widmayer, Ryan Thompson, and Dana Plank. 2024. “Playful Learning on Twitch: Perspectives on Creating Educational and Engaging Livestreams.” Presented at Play Make Learn Conference, Madison, WI. July 2024.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2024. “Previewing the new WSFS website” Presented at the Western States Folklore Society annual conference, Los Angeles, CA. April 2024.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2024. “Crafting Assignments in the Folklore Classroom” Presented at the Western States Folklore Society annual conference, Los Angeles, CA. April 2024.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2023. “Workshop for Online Communication for Folklorists.” Hosted at the American Folklore Society annual conference. Portland, OR. November 2023.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2023. “Manufacturing Cryptids.” Presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association annual conference. Chicago, IL. October 2023.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2022. “Decomposition as a Model for Concluding Ethnographic Projects.” Presented at the American Folklore Society annual conference, Tulsa, OK. October 2022.

Tartaglia, Dom, Kaitlyn Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Anna Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, and Jared L. Schmidt. 2021. “Becoming Folkwise: Sustaining Digital Community while Socially Distant.” Presented at the American Folklore Society annual conference, Virtual. October 2021.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2021. “Ostensive Behavior: The Effect of Storytelling on Non-Human Animals.” Presented at the American Folklore Society annual conference, Harrisburg, PA. October 2021.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2021. “The Material Practice of Ostensive Behavior.” Presented at the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research annual conference, Virtual, June/July 2021.

Tartaglia, Dom, Kaitlyn Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Anna Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, and Jared L. Schmidt. 2021. “Texting, Zooming, and Memes: Sustaining Digital Community while Socially Distant.” Roundtable presentation given at the Western States Folklore Society annual conference, Virtual, April 2021.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2020. “Ostensive Behavior: The Limitations of Combining Theories” Presented at the Folklore Society of Utah annual conference, Virtual, November 2020.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2020. “Hindsight is 2020: Revisiting and Revising Past Projects.” Panel Discussant at the OSU/IU annual student conference, Columbus, OH, February 2020.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2019. “Thylacine Tourism: Marketing the Undead.” Presented at the American Folklore Society annual conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2019.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2019. “A Functional Analysis of Legendary Folk Heroes in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Fences.” Presented at the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research annual conference, Memphis, TN, June 2019.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2018. “A Folklorist’s Touch: Applying Ethnographic Interview Techniques in Learning Environments.” Presented at the Folklore Society of Utah annual conference, Ephraim, UT, November 2018.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2018. “Thylacine Dreams: Symbolism in the Vernacular Resurrection of an Extinct Marsupial.” Presented at the American Folklore Society annual conference, Buffalo, NY, October 2018.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2018. “Thylacine Dreams: Ostensive Practice in the Vernacular Resurrection of an Extinct Marsupial.” Presented at the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research annual conference, Brussels, Belgium, June 2018.

Sleight-Price, Camille, Daisy Ahlstone, and Michelle Jones. 2018. “Forbidden Foodways: Tide Pods, Ostensive Practice, and Intergenerational Conflict.” Presented at the Western States Folklore Society annual conference, Long Beach, CA, April 2018.

Ahlstone, Daisy. 2017. “Pins, Balls, and Beyond: Juggling as Meditative Practice.” Presented at the Folklore Society of Utah annual conference, Ogden, UT, November 2017.

Invited Talks & Workshops

Guest Speaker. 2024. “Manufacturing Cryptids: Threatened and Endangered Species Storytelling.” Folk Zoology Conference. Virtual. 30 October 2024.

Guest Lecturer. 2023. “Manufacturing Cryptids.” Intro to Folklore taught by Patricia Sawin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 24 April 2023.

Guest Speaker. 2023. “Decomposition as a model for ethnographic community centered research” Belief Narrative Network Online Lecture Series, International Society for Folk Narrative Research. 3 March 2023.

Guest Speaker. 2022. “Quilting and Queer Folklore.” Intro to Folklore taught by Zahra Abedi, The Ohio State University, 10 November 2022.

Guest Lecturer. 2022. “Manufacturing Cryptids.” Queer Ecology taught by Robin Cremins, The Ohio State University, 4 November 2022.

Guest Speaker. 2022. “Ecology and Folklore as Tools for Resistance,” Folklore & Resistance Roundtable, The Carterhaugh School for Folklore and the Fantastic, 24 July 2022.

Guest Speaker. 2022. “Using Folklore to Bring Communities Together Online,” Intro to Folklore taught by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, 24 February 2022.

Guest Speaker. 2021. Storytelling on Social Platforms Twitch & Discord, Artists Standing Strong Together, 9 August 2021.

Guest Speaker. 2021. Intro to Folklore taught by Rachel Ross, Penn State Harrisburg, 19 April 2021.

Guest Lecturer. 2021. “Manufacturing Cryptids.” Intro to Folklore taught by Dr. Mary Sellers, Penn State Harrisburg, 1 March 2021.

Guest Lecturer. 20018. “Curriculum Vitae Workshop.” Utah State University, November 2018.

Guest Lecturer. 2018. “Legends and Ostension.” Co-led with Michelle Jones. ENGL 2210 Introduction to Folklore, Utah State University, October 2018.

Guest Speaker. 2017. “Organizing Your Way Through Grad School.” ENGL 6820 Practicum in Teaching Writing, Utah State University, October 2017.