research is located in Atlantic Canada; much of it centers on the uses women make of folklore in their everyday lives. She is author of聽Baking as Biography. A Life Story on Recipes(2010), winner of the Elli K枚ng盲s-Maranda Book Prize by the Women鈥檚 Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS). With Pauline Greenhill, Dr. Tye is co-editor of聽Undisciplined Women. Tradition and Culture in Canada聽(1996) and聽Unsettling Assumptions. Tradition, Gender, Drag聽(2014). Her articles explore subjects from cultural understandings of regionally iconic foods like lobster, molasses and home-baked bread, to bachelorette parties, Christmas mummering, and contemporary legend, and have appeared in聽Food, Culture and Society,听CuiZine,听Women鈥檚 Studies International Forum, and聽Ethnologies, among other journals.
Dr. Tye is a member of the AFS Executive Board and co-editor of聽Digest, the online the journal of AFS鈥檚 Foodways Section. She is a past president of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada.