Faye Ringel is Professor of Humanities, U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She has published New England’s Gothic Literature (E. Mellen Press, 1995); “Westward the Course: Nostalgia for Imperialism in American Gothic” in Proceedings of the European Association for American Studies Conference, Prague 2004; “Slap-Shtik: The Three Stooges in the Context of Yiddish Theatre” in Scholarly Stooges. Ed. Peter Seeley, McFarland, 2005; “Bright Swords, Big Cities: Medievalizing Fantasy in Urban Settings” in Medievalism: The Year’s Work for 1995 (Studies in Medievalism, 2000); “Women Fantasists: In the Shadow of the Ring” in Views of Middle Earth, Clark and Timmons, eds., (Greenwood, June 2000; nominated for the 2001 and the 2002 Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies); “Gothic New England” in The Encyclopedia of New England Culture (Yale University Press, in press); “Witches” and “Wizards” in Handbook of Gothic Literature, Roberts, ed., (Macmillan, 1998); “Stealing Plots and Tropes: Traditional Ballads and American Genre Fiction” in Ballads Into Books: The Legacies of Francis James Child, Cheesman and Rieuwerts, eds., (Peter Lang, 1997); “Reclaiming the Invisible World: Maryse Conde’s I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” in Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic, Leonard, ed., (Greenwood, 1997); “Current Medievalist Writing Groups: Worlds Shared and Unshared” in The Year’s Work in Medievalism 1991, Rewa, ed., (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, (separate articles, that is, though now that she thinks of it ...). She 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.