William Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition featuring Dr. David J. Puglia

This year’s William Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition will feature David J. Puglia, folklorist and author of North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook.

Mining a mountain of folklore publications, North American Monsters unearths decades of notable monster research. Nineteen folkloristic case studies from the last half-century examine legendary monsters in their native habitats, focusing on ostensibly living creatures bound to specific geographic locales.