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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...
Lijun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Folklore in George Mason University’s English Department. Her research interests include material culture, heritage (tangible and intangible), museums and curatorship, institutionalization of culture, tourism, oral narrative, and folklore of China and East Asia. ...
“The Flow of Tradition”: Mason’s Folklore Program Visiting Scholars Curate Lunar New Year Exhibit By Stephanie Aitken The stage is set, or in this case, Fenwick Gallery is ready to host “The Flow of Tradition–Chinese Folk Art of the Lunar New” This exhibit will run in Fenwick Gallery in the l...
Storytelling has always been an integral part of Meg Nicholas’s cultural and personal traditions. In a phone conversation she had with the George Mason University Folklore Program’s graduate student, Stephanie Aitken, she revealed that it was not something she chose. For the Lenape, a storyteller is ...