About

Brittany Nicole Hearne is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Illinois. Her research focuses on psychological distress, race-ethnicity, educational attainment, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has contributed to scholarly articles examining differences in psychological distress by race/ethnicity and educational attainment during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as intersectional analyses of coping behaviors and mental health disparities. Her work also explores the effects of paternal incarceration, race and ethnicity, and maternal health, along with the personal consequences of gender among young adults, including romantic relationships, parenthood, and depressive symptoms among young women.

Research topics

• History
• Sociology
• Art
• Library science
• Literature

Selected publications

• Leaving a Trail: Personal Papers and Public Archives Part One – The Donor’s Story

  Archivaria (Association of Canadian Archivists) · 2018-11-26 · 1 citations

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  Archives reveal multiple ways in which a person or institution's path intersects with public interest.New generations can gain insight from the legacies of others' ideas, actions, and influences, studying the past to affect the future.What those generations conclude will depend on the footprints left for them to follow.In this collaboration, an emeritus professor of storytelling, folklore, and children's literature joins with an archivist for faculty papers to preserve the evidence of the former's lifetime work.Although they approach their tasks differently, both narrators draw on long-term research experience to inform and describe the process with which each is involved.The importance of their interaction emerges through mutual references in their respective articles, as does the extent to which their personal stories affect the nature of their work and self-reflective approach.This connectivity allows them to portray what archiving means for a particular donor (Part One) and what working with a donor means for a particular archivist (Part Two).Their intent is to think in a visionary way about why and how donors and archivists do what they do, engaging readers to connect personally as well as intellectually along the way.This is the first article in a two-part sequence in this issue.

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• “Your One Wild and Precious Life”: A Tale of Divergent Patterns in Narrative and Musical Development

  Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education · 2017-01-01 · 5 citations

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  Abstract During a lifelong journey of studying stories, I have increasingly moved toward a focus on the intersection of personal and public narrative, “the inside and outside of knowledge” (Hearne, 2015). Here I use stories to explore three questions: What happened to make a musician into a nonmusician, what happened next, and why might that matter? I’ve processed those questions through mixed genres: auto-ethnography, family history, retrospective, narrative research, and commentary by poets and memoirists. What evolved is a personalized case study of the life, death, and reincarnation of a musical sensibility.

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• A STORY INTERNALIZED: 1900-1950

  2016-01-01

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  ing messages from art and entertainment, whether or not those messages are didactic. Their overt preoccupation with meaning, balanced as it may be with a sense of aesthetic conventions, is a new stage in the development of Beauty and the Beast. The deception of appearances becomes hot a homily but an existential recognition. Perception replaces obedience, and understanding supersedes advice as an ideal in the maturation process. The transition away from didacticism to thematic interpretation during this time is slightly different from the later psychological investigation of the story. These writers and artists, mostly male as in the nineteenth century, dwell not so much on the Oedipal triangle or archetypal patterns of a collective subconscious as on the struggle of the individual to achieve a balance within himor herself and with another, or by extension of the other, with a larger framework of family and society. The story represents personal dualities of light and dark, reality and fantasy, animal and spiritual, male and female, alienation and reconciliation. This search for and awareness of meaning unfortunately deepens the split between adult and child audiences. As writers

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• Folklore in Children’s Literature

  2015-02-17

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• Seven Ways

  E-Learning and Digital Media · 2014-01-01

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• Betsy Hearne Oral History

  2012-01-01

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• Folklore in Children's Literature

  2011-04-27

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• Review of <i>The Truth of Stories: A Native Narrative</i> by Thomas King

  On the Horizon The International Journal of Learning Futures · 2006-10-01 · 1 citations

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  Purpose This is a review of The Truth of Stories by Thomas King. Design/methodology/approach This review examines the ways in which the Native American stories collected by Thomas King have been used to shape lives, value systems and public policies. It pays special attention to the controversial way stories have been used both to reflect and to manipulate images of oppressed ethnic groups. Findings In six essays, a Canadian professor of literature gives a Native North American perspective on the relationship between stories, culture, and social history. Thomas King's blend of storytelling and analysis models a creative approach to critical methodology. Originality/value This review not only introduces an important interpreter of Native American stories, but also suggests ways in which Euro/American scholarship can learn from Native American traditions.

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• Effie Louise Power: Librarian, educator, author

  Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 2004-03-01 · 4 citations

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  Effie Louise Power (1873???1969) represented the high standard of collaboration&#13;\namong children???s librarians that characterized the entire development&#13;\nof youth services work. This article examines Power???s role in U.S. library&#13;\nhistory as a practitioner, library and information science educator, national&#13;\nand regional professional leader, and author. Particular emphasis is given to&#13;\nPower???s place in the network of children???s librarians in the early twentieth&#13;\ncentury, her professional authority as the librarian selected by the American&#13;\nLibrary Association to write the fi rst textbook for children???s librarianship,&#13;\nand her success as one of the many librarians who have written and edited&#13;\nchildren???s books, especially folktale collections for use in storytelling programs.&#13;\nEmerging most notably from this research is the discovery of how&#13;\nenergetically, albeit quietly, Power infl uenced not only her contemporaries&#13;\nbut also the next several generations of children???s librarians who have followed&#13;\nin her professional footsteps.

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• Ruth Sawyer: A Woman's Journey from Folklore to Children's Literature

  ˜The œLion and the unicorn · 2000-04-01

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  The development of children's literature is a story like any other. It has a plot, setting, characters, symbols, and style as clear as a folktale--with a subtext as complex as a folktale. The focus here is on the characters, though of course their action comes into play, and the setting is primarily Euro-American. The theme is folklore's journey into children's literature, and the quest(ion) is: Who are the heroes?

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Frequent coauthors

• Deborah Stevenson

  3 shared

• Zena Sutherland

  2 shared

• Christine Jenkins

  Cardiff University

  2 shared

• Roger Sutton

  2 shared

• Janice M. Del Negro

  2 shared

• Brian W. Sturm

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1 shared

• Kay Stone

  1 shared

• Christine A. Jenkins

  1 shared