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Dianne Dugaw (she/her) is a singer-musician, writer, and scholar who publishes in folklore, music, and literary studies with an emphasis on queer topics. Her childhood on a small Pacific Northwest ranch and her early years as a Catholic nun shape her storytelling and scholarship. Her memoir California Medieval: Nearly a Nun in 1960s San Francisco received the 2023 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and will be published by Schaffner Press in 2024. Her other books, which include Warrior Women & Popular Balladry (University of Chicago Press) and ‘Deep Play’—John Gay & the Invention of Modernity (University of Delaware Press), investigate cross-dressing women heroes, ballad origins of musical comedy, and gender and sexuality in history. She has also recorded two CDs, singing traditional British and American folksongs. Professor Emerita at the University of Oregon, Dugaw lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley with her wife and wee dog.