Lowell Brower

Lowell Brower is a Lecturer in the Folklore & Mythology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, serving as Teaching Faculty IV. He returned to UW-Madison after directing Harvard's Folklore and Mythology undergraduate program (2018-2022). His interdisciplinary research bridges Folklore, African Studies, Anthropology, Internet Studies, and Refugee/Migration Studies. He speaks Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda, with extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, Rwanda, and the Upper Midwest.

Research Focus: Specializes in 'folklore of emergency' during crises, post-genocide storytelling in Rwanda, digital memetic warfare, and supernatural narratives in modern contexts. Current book project: Once Upon a Time in the Land of Never Again: Storytelling and Survival in Post-Genocide Rwanda.

Teaching: Courses include Internet Folklore, Supernatural in the Modern World, Badgerlore (campus culture), Folklore of Migration, and Foodways ethnography. Active in fieldwork pedagogy and digital folklore analysis.

Languages: English, Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda.