Elizabeth "Libby" Tucker is a professor of English, General Literature and Rhetoric at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Her research interests include children’s/adolescents’ folklore; folklore of the supernatural and digital folklore. She has been featured by many outlets for her insight into ghosts and urban legends.Tucker is the author of six books and has taught courses on folklore, children’s folklore, folklore of the supernatural, folklore and the mass media, and Native American folklore and literature. She is internationally known as an expert in children’s and adolescents’ folklore.She has received many awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, Children’s Folklore Section, American Folklore Society, October 2019.