Claire Schmidt is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research interests include Anglo-Saxon oral tradition and hagiography, postcolonial theory, humor theory, and the occupational folklore of twenty-first-century prison workers and social workers. Her essay, “‘She Said She’d Never Even Had Fried Chicken!’: Foodways, Humor, and Race in Bob Roberts,” was the winner of the Sue Samuelson Award for Foodways Scholarship and is forthcoming in the journal Digest.