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.

From the description of Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus papers, 1956-1974. WorldCat record id: 320085988

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