Liminal Cultures explores the places where folklore, art, literature, landscape, the built environment, and history intersect with the archive—both conceptual and actual—and the spaces in between. An avant-garde antiquarianism. A quest for the submerged. The uncovering of hidden connections, hidden meanings, within the otherwise mundane. A worldview rife with negative capability. Trans-Atlantic psychogeographic and hauntological modes prevail.

Stephen Canner Curriculum Vitae

Stephen Canner is an archivist, bibliographer, musician with the Austin, Texas-based mutant folk project Swarme of Beese, and historian of artifacts that emerge from the margins of culture.

Master of Library and Information Science
Kent State University.

Bachelor of Science (Linguistics & English Literature)
East Tennessee State University.

Publications

“Chris Torrance at Glan yr Afon: Earth Mysteries, Gothic Albion, and Poetic Truth” in Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion 2:2, 2024.

“Theo Brown: Folklore, Dartmoor, and the Underworld” in Undefined Boundary: Daughters of Psychick Albion 2:1, 2023.

Parsing the Traces: A Book of Disappearances. Backwoods Modern Press, 2023.

“The Horse, The Cup, and The King” in Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion 1:2, 2022.

“Alex Sanders: A Liminal Discography” in Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion 1:1, 2022.

“Authentic Music from Another Planet: The Howard Menger Story,” We Are the Mutants, 8 March 2022.

“Mark Probert, the Inner Circle, and UFOs: A Mystery in Vinyl,” We Are the Mutants, 17 December 2020.

“Unreliable Narratives: History and Folk Memory in the Southern Murder Ballad,” in Jim Peters, ed., Folk Horror: Harvest Hymns. Durham, UK: Wyrd Harvest Press, 2018.

“The Lines of the City: A Threnody for d.a.levy,” in Julian Hyde, ed., With the Eyes of the Angels, Windermere, UK: Voices in a Lane, 2018.

“Folklore and the River: A Reflection on Davis Grubb’s The Night of the Hunter,” in Andy Paciorek & Katherine Beem, eds., Folk Horror: Field Studies. Durham, UK: Wyrd Harvest Press, 2015.

Indexer and Bibliographer, Lynne Adele & Bruce Lee Webb, As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015.

“The Farmer Feeds Us All: The Origin and Evolution of a Grange Anthem,” paper delivered at Perspectives on American Freemasonry and Fraternalism Symposium, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, MA, 11 April 2014.