Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
Associate Professor of French and Global Affairs. Regional interests: West Africa, Central Africa. Jonathon Repinecz specializes in francophone literatures of West and Central Africa. While he has particular expertise in Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he regularly teaches texts and ...
The Folklore and Mythology concentration offers students the opportunity to study oral literature and traditional artifacts in their historical, cultural and performance contexts. Study in folklore addresses secular tales, songs, proverbs, jokes and material culture items as they are performed within...
Mason’s Folklore Program offers the only masters-level degree in folklore in the mid-Atlantic region, with a robust slate of course offerings and strong ties to local institutions such as the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, t...