Director

Professor Meg Brady of the Department of English and the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah has taught folklore, narrative theory, and American Indian Studies at the university for over 25 years. As the 2003-2004 University Professor, she created and taught the advanced undergraduate course that was the inspiration for YourStory. Brady has been honored as the recipient of the Presidential Teaching Scholar and the University Distinguished Teaching Awards, as well as the Ramona Cannon Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities. Her first book, “Some Kind of Power”: Navajo Children’s Skinwalker Narratives, won the American Folklore Society’s Botkin Prize for the best first book in folklore. Her latest book, Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Mary Susannah Fowler’s Life of ‘Unselfish Usefulness’ recently published by Utah State University Press won the Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize for women’s folklore scholarship and was a finalist for the Evans Biography Prize. Her most recent research has been recording the life stories of women living on islands off the southwest coast of Ireland.