Böcker i Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology-serien

Michael Dylan Foster is Associate Professor of Folklore and East Asian Studies at Indiana University. He is author of Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (2009), The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (2015), and numerous articles on Japanese folklore, literature, and media. Lisa Gilman is Associate Professor of Folklore and English at the University of Oregon. She researches dance, gender, and politics in Malawi and has published on the use of women¿s dancing in Malawi¿s political sphere. She has also done extensive research with US veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

Diane E. Goldstein is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and is a former President of the American Folklore Society. Her publications include Talking AIDS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends andVernacular Risk Perception and Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore.Amy Shuman is Professor of folklore at Ohio State University. Her publications include Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents, Other People¿s Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy, and (with Carol Bohmer) Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century.

Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and has carried out folklore research in Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the other islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean. He is the author of Verbal Arts in Madagascar and Stars and Keys (IUP 2007), a collection of folktale translations from the Indian Ocean islands.