Field-Of-Study: Folklore and Popular Culture

William R. Ferris is the Joel Williamson Eminent Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an adjunct professor in the Folklore Curriculum.  He is senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS), and is widely recognized as a leader in Southern studies, African-American

Dr. Tristram Potter Coffin, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the author of eighteen books and more than fifty scholarly articles and reviews. He is a past Associate Professor of English at Ohio’s Denison University, where he was elected to the Denison University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986 and the