📖 Overview
Michael Dylan Foster is an American scholar specializing in Japanese folklore, mythology, and cultural studies. He serves as a professor at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Foster focuses his research on Japanese supernatural beings, folk traditions, and the intersection of traditional culture with modern media. His academic work examines how folklore adapts and persists in contemporary Japanese society. He has written extensively about yokai, the supernatural creatures and phenomena found in Japanese culture.
His scholarship bridges anthropology, literary studies, and cultural analysis. Foster's work appears in both academic publications and books aimed at general readers interested in Japanese culture and folklore.