Anthony Bak Buccitelli

Anthony Bak Buccitelli is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Communications at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He currently serves as Director of the Penn State's Center for Folklore, coordinator of its Graduate Certificate in Folklore and Ethnography, and editor of the international journal Western Folklore. He is the author of the book City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston (2016, University of Wisconsin Press) and editor of Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture: Our Changing Traditions, Impressions, and Expressions in a Mediated World (2017, Praeger Books), a two volume collection that explores the role of folklore in the changing definitions, practices, and performances of race and ethnicity in the digital age. He has published more than 20 research articles and scholarly book chapters, which have appeared in the Journal of American Folklore, Oral History, Culture and Religion, Cultural Analysis, and Western Folklore, among other venues.