The current Journal of American Folklore (JAF) Editorial Collective seeks to recruit an additional Collective member for service during the remainder of the Collective’s joint editorship. Applications are due September 15, 2026.
The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or semester-long residential fellowships. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET, October 1, 2026.
AFS is pleased to share details about an additional hotel, The Four Points by Sheraton, across the street from the Renaissance, which will have a small block of rooms geared in particular to students and those who may be traveling with pets.
Book your room at the AFS Annual Meeting hotel in Asheville now!
AFS is pleased to share the preliminary program for pre-organized panels, assembled panels, and forums. This schedule is visible only to presenters for now, with public release coming soon.
The 2026 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education (JFE) edited by Camille Maria Acosta and Sheila Bock is now available. The theme of this issue is "Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow."
The Only True Folksongs in English (University Press of Mississippi) uncovers how nineteenth-century American scholars including the children of farmers, sail makers, and ministers set out to prove that a young republic could, in fact, have its own folk tradition.
Volume 63, issue 2 of the Journal of Folklore Research (JFR) is now available in print via Indiana University Press and in electronic form on Project MUSE. This special issue focuses on the topic of conspiracy theories.
The History of Cornish Tradition (University of Exeter Press) examines the rich tradition of the West Country, providing a definitive historical analysis of how the region’s legends, language, and customs have transformed over the last four centuries.
Folklorist Hasan M. El-Shamy died on August 16, 2026 in Bloomington, IN at the age of eighty-eight.
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