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Anthony Bak Buccitelli is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Communications at The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He holds a PhD in American and New England Studies from Boston University and an MA in Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. He also currently serves as co-editor for Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture. His research and teaching focus on digital culture, folk narrative, festive culture, social memory practices, the history of technology, ethnic and urban history and culture, vernacular religion, and the history of folkloristics.
James R. Dow is Professor Emeritus of German Folklore and Linguistics at Iowa State University. He is editor of Bruno Schweizer’s Zimbrische Gesamtgrammatik: Vergleichende Darstellung der zimbrischen Dialekte (2008), co-editor and translator with Hannjost Lixfeld of German Volkskunde (1986), co-editor and translator with Hannjost Lixfeld of The Nazification of an Academic Discipline (1994), and co-author with Olaf Bockhorn of The Study of European Ethnology in Austria (2004). He edited the Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie for ten years and was a senior bibliographer for the Modern Language Association. His folklore articles have appeared in such journals as Journal of American Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Asian Folklore Studies, and International Folklore Review. He was a Guggenheim Fellow from 2005–2006 and has just received a grant from the American Philosophical Society to continue his work on the Cultural Commission.
Emily Kader is the rare book research librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. She holds a PhD from Emory University, where she studied the literature and folklore of Ireland and the American South. Her work has received support from the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry in Atlanta, Georgia, and The Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Her work has appeared in The Irish Review and the collection Rethinking the Irish in the American South: Beyond Rounders and Reelers. Currently she is writing a book on the transnational Jack tale called Jack and the Western World: The Irish Roots and Southern Migrations of an American Folk Hero.
A graduate of Macalester College, Renata Limón is currently the editorial/publicity assistant at the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where she works with crime and mystery fiction. She holds an MA in Folklore Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in Medical History from the University of Chicago. This paper is derived from her master’s thesis at Berkeley. [End Page 484]
