Oral Tradition Volume 10, Number 1

About the Authors

Keyan Tomaselli

Keyan Tomaselli, who teaches film studies at the University of Natal/Durban in South Africa, and Maureen Eke, at Michigan State University’s African Studies Center, have contributed to such periodicals as the South African Theatre Journal, Media Information Australia, and a collection of essays entitled Oral Studies in Southern Africa (1990).

Maureen Eke

Keyan Tomaselli, who teaches film studies at the University of Natal/Durban in South Africa, and Maureen Eke, at Michigan State University’s African Studies Center, have contributed to such periodicals as the South African Theatre Journal, Media Information Australia, and a collection of essays entitled Oral Studies in Southern Africa (1990).

Steve Reece

Steve Reece is Associate Professor of Classics at Saint Olaf College. He has published widely in the areas of Homeric epic, comparative oral traditions, oral poetics, Greek lexicography, and New Testament studies, including The Stranger’s Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene (1993).

Walter J. Ong

One of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of study that Oral Tradition serves, Walter J. Ong, now University Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Saint Louis University, has published a brilliant succession of books and articles, among them The Presence of the Word (1967), Interfaces of the Word (1977), Fighting for Life (1981), and Orality and Literacy (1982).

Russell H. Kaschula

Formerly a lecturer in the Department of Xhosa at the University of the Western Cape, Russell Kaschula has accepted an appointment to the University of Cape Town. He has contributed such essays as “New Wine in Old Bottles: Some Thoughts on the Orality-Literacy Debate, with Specific Reference to the Xhosa Imbongi” (1991).

Bonnie D. Irwin

Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, Bonnie D. Irwin has published scholarly and pedagogical essays on frame tales. She is currently writing a book-length study of the 1001 Nights in American popular culture.

Jesse Byock

Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Jesse L. Byock has published a number of books, among them Feud in the Icelandic Saga (California, 1984) and a translation, The Saga of the Volsungs (California, 1990).

Timothy W. Boyd

Timothy Boyd teaches Latin in the Harvard Extension School. His interests include classical studies, Irish literature, and nineteenth century English literature.

F. Odun Balogun

Professor of English at Delaware State University, F. Odun Balogun specializes in African and African American literature. Among his publications are Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story (1991) and Adjusted Lives (1995), a collection of his own short stories.

Mark C. Amodio

Mark C. Amodio, Professor of English at Vassar College, is the author of Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England (2004). He has recently co-edited, with Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. (2003).