Professor Michael Foster
Indiana University Assoc. Professor of Folklore
“Yōkai: Supernatural Creatures of Japanese Culture”
Dr. Foster received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 2003. The US expert on yōkai or Japanese monsters, he has published the monograph Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai and articles on both traditional yōkai (including tanuki and kappa) and yōkai deriving from contemporary urban legends, such as the Slit-Mouthed Woman.
Peeler Auditorium
Wednesday, April 13
4:15 p.m.
Open to the public.