Editorial Team

Erin Gould is a cultural anthropologist. Her research focuses on contemporary oral storytelling practice of Moroccan youth as it is informed by the historical memory of past storytelling traditions. From 2016 to 2019, she examined how young storytellers are finding ways to “revive” and innovate storytelling performance practices through investigating different places for performance, different languages of performance, and different practices within performance (including other media, etc.). While continuing this research, she is also delving deeper into this conception of “the historical storyteller” by tracing pathways of distribution and circulation of Moroccan storytellers in previous centuries, and how these circulations have brought innovations to storytelling practice and content. As she continues this research in Morocco, she is also beginning a tangential research agenda focused on the stories and narratives people hold in relation to iconic neon signs in the Las Vegas and Los Angeles regions.