Professor Department of English Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-737-1945 Email: kirklandj@ecu.edu Website: https://english.ecu.edu/people/faculty/james-kirkland/ Areas of expertise: American literature, magico-religious healing traditions, traditional healing, rhetoric and composition, herbal medicine, tall tales and urban legends, folklore
Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Department of English Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Phone: 252-328-2832 Email: kittaa@ecu.edu Website: https://english.ecu.edu/people/faculty/andrea-kitta/ Areas of expertise: Cultural history of vaccination, the anti-vaccination movement, modern medical folklore, folklore of medicine, patient/doctor communication, urban legends, folklore, Slender Man, the supernatural, ghosts
