Digital Folklore Creators & Guests

A high-effort nerd for all things creative.Mason is a professional sound designer and audio engineer.He is a hobbyist video editor, animator, coder, video game maker, actor, improviser, electronics tinkerer, and generally obsessive learner for all things media and tech.

Perry Carpenter is the Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer at KnowBe4.

Brittany Warman is a writer.

Vivian Asimos received her PhD studying virtual narratives. She’s interested in the study of popular culture, and what contemporary narratives have to tell us about our current societies, understanding these narratives as our contemporary mythology. She is the editor of the Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth, and the author of Digital Monsters and Digital Mythology and the Internet’s Monster.

Kathleen Hale is a professor of Political Science at Auburn University, and co-author of How We Vote.

Sara Cleto is a writer.

Dr. Lynne S. McNeill is a folklorist whose research focuses on legend, belief, the supernatural, and digital culture. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Folklore in the English Department at Utah State University, where she also serves as the Chair of the Folklore Program. She is reviews editor for the journal Contemporary Legend.McNeill's work has appeared the journals such as The Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, and Contemporary Legend, and in collections. Her first book, the textbook "Folklore Rules," was published in 2013. She co-edited "Slender Man is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet" and "Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook," both of which were published in 2018.

Tim Harford is an economist and journalist.

Ben Brock Johnson is a professional radio, digital and print journalist with extensive experience in news and features reporting for national broadcast organizations and publications. He currently hosts a daily show heard by nearly 2 million people around the US.

Dr. Francis Young is a historian and author of religion and belief. He is a professional indexer, a reader in the Church of England, and a tutor for the University of Oxford Continuing Education.

Elizabeth "Libby" Tucker is a professor of English, General Literature and Rhetoric at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Her research interests include children’s/adolescents’ folklore; folklore of the supernatural and digital folklore. She has been featured by many outlets for her insight into ghosts and urban legends.Tucker is the author of six books and has taught courses on folklore, children’s folklore, folklore of the supernatural, folklore and the mass media, and Native American folklore and literature. She is internationally known as an expert in children’s and adolescents’ folklore.She has received many awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, Children’s Folklore Section, American Folklore Society, October 2019.

Chelsey hosts the American Hysteria podcast.