HH__2890My research centers on vernacular culture and communication, in connection with digital technology, memory, narrative, space and place, and race and ethnicity. I regularly teach and lecture on topics in technology and culture, folkloristics, and race and ethnicity.

I am Associate Professor of American Studies and Communications and Chair of the American Studies program at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. I also direct the Penn State’s Pennsylvania Center for Folklore (formerly the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies).

I have previously been the editor of the quarterly refereed journal Western Folklore and co-editor of the refereed annual Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture.

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