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Paul Manning
Paul Manning is a linguist and linguistic anthropologist. He is a professor of anthropology at Trent University and author of three books (Strangers in a Strange Land [Academic Studies Press, 2012], Semiotics of Drinks and Drinking [Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2012] and Love Stories [University of Toronto Press, 2015]). His primary field site is the country of Georgia, but he has written on the ‘spectral migrations’ of various kinds of folkloric monsters in time and space, from Georgian goblins migrating into cities, and Cornish Pixies and mining spirits called Tommyknockers, to North American ghosts and Spiritualist seances.
Contact: Department of Anthropology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, K9L 0G2, Canada.