Long-Wilgus, Eleanor R.

Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus was born in 1923 in Seattle, Wash. She received her Ph. D. in English Literature and Folklore from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968. Long-Wilgus moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1993 shortly after the death of her husband, D.K. Wilgus, folklorist and professor of English and Anglo-American Folksong in the Department of Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. In Chapel Hill, she became an active member of the local folklore community and established the D.K. Wilgus Fellowship in Comparative Ballad and Folksong Study in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Long-Wilgus died in May 2005 in Chapel Hill.

Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus was born on 9 February 1923 in Seattle, Wash., to Earl Percy Jones and Myrtle Eleanor Jones. In 1957, she earned a Bachelor of Science in General Studies with Honors from Portland State College (now Portland State University). In 1958, Long-Wilgus earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Portland, followed by a Ph.D. in Enlgish Literature and Folklore from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968. She was a member of several professional organizations including the Modern Language Association, the American Folklore Society, the Irish Folklore Society, the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, the International Arthurian Society, the International Commission for Ballad Research, and the North Carolina Folklore Society. Long-Wilgus moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1993 shortly after the death of her husband, D. K. Wilgus, folklorist and professor of English and Anglo-American Folksong in the Department of Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. In Chapel Hill, she became an active member of the local folklore community and established the D. K. Wilgus Fellowship in Comparative Ballad and Folksong Study in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Long-Wilgus died on 8 May 2005 in Chapel Hill, N.C.