Anthony B. Buccitelli, Ph.D.

Anthony Bak Buccitelli is Interim Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and Communications at the Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Ph.D. in American and New England Studies from Boston University and an M.A. in Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently serves as Director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore and as co-editor of the book series New Directions in the Study of Everyday Life, Past and Present, published by the Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore and Berghahn Books. He has previously served as chair and professor-in-charge of the American Studies program at Penn State, editor of the quarterly journal Western Folklore (2017-2022), and co-editor of Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture (2006-2014).

Buccitelli’s research centers on vernacular culture and communication, memory, narrative, space and place, 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). This volume was selected for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series and received honorable mention for the American Folklore Society’s 2016 Wayland D. Hand prize, “given for the best book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials.” 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 edited collection that explores the role of folklore in the changing definitions, practices, and performances of race and ethnicity in the digital age. With his colleague Solimar Otero, Buccitelli has also edited the forthcoming volume Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance (Indiana University Press). He has published more than two dozen articles and scholarly book chapters, which have appeared in the Journal of American Folklore, Oral History, Culture and Religion, the Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies, and many other venues.

Academia:

https://pennstate.academia.edu/AnthonyBuccitelli