Diane Tye’s research is located in Atlantic Canada; much of it centers on the uses women make of folklore in their everyday lives. She is author of Baking as Biography. A Life Story on Recipes(2010), winner of the Elli Köngäs-Maranda Book Prize by the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS). With Pauline Greenhill, Dr. Tye is co-editor of Undisciplined Women. Tradition and Culture in Canada (1996) and Unsettling Assumptions. Tradition, Gender, Drag (2014). Her articles explore subjects from cultural understandings of regionally iconic foods like lobster, molasses and home-baked bread, to bachelorette parties, Christmas mummering, and contemporary legend, and have appeared in Food, Culture and Society, CuiZine, Women’s Studies International Forum, and Ethnologies, among other journals.
Dr. Tye is a member of the AFS Executive Board and co-editor of Digest, the online the journal of AFS’s Foodways Section. She is a past president of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada.