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Christine Lynn Garlough is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Folklore and an affiliate of the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research focuses on the strategic use of folklore in grassroots political performances produced by South Asian feminist groups and South Asian American diasporic communities. She specializes in critical theory, particularly feminist and performative approaches, as well as phenomenological studies that relate to questions of recognition and acknowledgment. Currently, she is writing a book titled “Play and Politics: Testimony in South Asian American Grassroots Performance,” which explores rhetorical performances that testify against incidents of hate speech and crime directed at South Asian Americans, particularly after 9/11.
Robert Glenn Howard is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he serves as Associate Director of the Folklore Program and Participating Faculty in Religious Studies. His current research focuses on everyday expressive behavior in new communication technologies. He has published on topics ranging from pet Web sites to the involvement of the printing press in the Protestant Reformation. His writings have appeared in a variety of journals including Journal of Folklore Research, Journal of Church and State, and Journal of Media and Religion. Since 1994, his primary research interest has been an ethnographic study of online religious communities.
Elliott Oring is Professor of Anthropology, emeritus, at California State University, Los Angeles. He has published extensively on folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism. He is a contributing editor to the Journal of Folklore Research and is on the editorial board of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. His most recent book, Engaging Humor, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003. [End Page 251]
