Scholar

Milbre Burch holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Missouri (MU). She has served as Performance Review Editor for the peer-reviewed Story, Self, Society: an interdisciplinary journal of storytelling studies (2009-2012) and been a co-convener of the Storyteller Section of the American Folklore Society (2012-2016) and a co-convener of the Playwriting Symposium of the MidAmerica Theatre Conference (2016-2018).

She has published articles and reviews in the online, peer-reviewed International Journal on Conflict and Resolution and in Storytelling, Self, Society. Her chapter on fairy tale performance (co-written with Patricia Sawin) can be found in the Routledge Companion to Fairy Tale Cultures and Media, edited by Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy and Naomi Hamer (Abington-on-Thames, UK: Routledge, 2018). “The Storytelling Project,” her archival interview collection (created with Berkley Hudson), is housed in the Cotsen Children’s Library, a special collection at Princeton University.

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