Anthony Bak Buccitelli

   Associate Professor of American Studies and     
   Communication,

Anthony Bak Buccitelli is 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.

Buccitelli’s research centers on vernacular culture and communication, in connection with digital technology, memory, narrative, space and place, and race and ethnicity. He regularly teaches and lectures on topics in technology and culture, folkloristics, ethnography, and race and ethnicity. He is the author of the book City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston (2016, University of Wisconsin Press). He is also 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.