Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 American Folklore Society annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
AFS 2024 Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 American Folklore Society annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 American Folklore Society annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 American Folklore Society annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
October’s free e-book is here! Check out Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World by Robin P. Harris before the month is over! Olonkho, the epic narrative […]
Welcome to our 2021 American Folklore Society Virtual Exhibit. Step inside to browse our journals, featured books, and more. Use Promo Code AFS21 to get 50% off all our folklore […]
Welcome to our 2020 American Folklore Society Virtual Exhibit. Step inside to see our featured titles, journals, music, and more. Browse our newest American Folklore Studies titles, and use Promo […]
We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded […]
Forget Halloween. August is the time for monster mashing in Illinois. One peruse of the state’s long history of monster sightings shows that warm summer nights bring the cryptids out […]
This week, we received word that Jane C. Beck’s acclaimed book Daisy Turner’s Kin: An African American Family Saga, won two awards: the 2016 Chicago Folklore Prize and the 2016 Wayland […]
Humanity has undoubtedly told stories since forever. Possibly our ancestors acted or danced them before speech found its way into our brains. Writing brought religious texts and Gilgamesh but even […]