Bad Bunny’s “Baticano”

by | Aug 21, 2026

Why Teach “Baticano” as a Monster Text? Bad Bunny released “Baticano” on Halloween (October 31, 2023) as part of his album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana. Directed by Stillz and featuring Steve Buscemi, the black-and-white video stages an overt gothic homage: Bad...

We Are All Monsters Here

by | Aug 15, 2026

This essay introduces an undergraduate honors course that approaches monsters as products of monstrification, a discursive act of interpellation. Students move from analyzing to creating and inhabiting monsters, and the monsters they produce reveal concerns about...

Hunting Ghosts in a College Classroom

by | Aug 15, 2026

  Do monsters really exist? Surely they must, for if they did not, how could we? Jeffrey Jerome Cohen When I first received the email asking for proposals for a small humanities education materials grant, I knew I wanted to do something that would benefit our...

Mapping the Legend

by | Aug 15, 2026

Introduction In the 2024 collection What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures, the marine biologist and writer Ayana Elizabeth Johnson interviews the Louisiana organizer and lawyer Colette Pichon Battle about the role of diaspora, home, and tradition in the...

Introduction

by | Sep 10, 2025

We write this introduction with deep gratitude for the opportunity to serve as Guest Editors of the 2025 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education, “Cultural Frameworks for Transformative Documenting and Learning.” As Co-Directors of Los Herederos, an...