Debbie Felton has degrees in English from UCLA (B.A. 1986) and in Classics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1995). She has taught at UMass since 1999. Her main research interest is folklore in classical literature, with particular attention to the supernatural and the monstrous. She is Editor of the journal Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural (Penn State Press) and has served as Associate Review Editor for the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts for many years. Professor Felton's first book, Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity (UT Press, 1999), examined the oral and literary transmission of ancient folklore about ghosts as well as analyzing the development of the ghost story as a literary form. Her forthcoming book, Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers of Classical Myth and History, examines the likelihood that stories of familiar monsters as well as of certain human characters from ancient literature were based on an understanding of real-life serial mutilation murders.