Faye Ringel retired in 2009 from her position as Professor of Humanities, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; the retirement ceremony and subsequent celebrations have passed into legend. She remains a consultant to the USCGA Alumni Association, supporting the Honors Program. She has published New England's Gothic Literature (E. Mellen Press, 1995); and articles in Proceedings of the European Association for American Studies Conference (Prague, 2004; Reprinted in After History, ed. Prochazka, Prague, 2006), Scholarly Stooges (ed. Peter Seeley, McFarland, 2005), Medievalism: The Year's Work for 1995 (Studies in Medievalism, 2000) Views of Middle Earth (eds. Clark and Timmons, Greenwood, June 2000; nominated for the 2001 and the 2002 Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies), The Encyclopedia of New England Culture (Yale University Press, 2005), Handbook of Gothic Literature (ed. Roberts, Macmillan, 1998), Ballads Into Books: The Legacies of Francis James Child (eds. Cheesman and Rieuwerts, Peter Lang, 1997), Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic (ed. Leonard, (Greenwood, 1997), and The Year's Work in Medievalism 1991 (ed. Rewa, Studies in Medievalism, 1997). She has also published articles and presented conference papers on New England vampires, urban legends, urban fantasy, demonic cooks, neo-pagans, Lovecraft, King, Tolkien, McKillip, mad scientists, Medievalist Robber Barons, Yiddish folklore and music, and most notably, on the fiction of Greer Gilman. Faye has reviewed books for Necrofile, Gothic Studies, The NEPCA Newsletter, and The Journal of American Culture. Her CD of traditional music with fiddler Bob Thurston is Hot Chestnuts: Old Songs, Endearing Charms; she has performed bawdy ballads and piano blues at many a con or parlor.