Oral Tradition Volume 11, Number 2October 1996

About the Authors

Mary Ellen Brown

Mary Ellen Brown, Professor of Folklore at the University of Indiana, is the editor of the Journal of Folklore Research. Her research interests in folklore include “all things Scottish,” as evidenced by numerous articles in that area and by her 1984 book on Burns and Tradition.

Burton Raffel

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent books are a fully annotated edition of Hamlet (2003), the first in a series of such editions from Yale University Press, and a new translation of Stendahl’s The Red and the Black (2003).

Robert Henke

Robert Henke, Assistant Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University, has published articles on Renaissance drama in a variety of journals as well as a 1997 book entitled Transformations: Italian Tragicomedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays.

Erik Pihel

Erik Pihel is the bibliography coordinator at the MLA International Bibliography and teaches contemporary and classical literature at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He has published essays and articles in a wide spectrum of journals and is currently working on a book entitled Media Strains: A History of Poetry and Technology from Homer to Hip Hop.

Thomas A. DuBois

Thomas A. DuBois is Professor of Scandinavian studies and folklore at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among his most recent books are Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe (2006), Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia (2008), and An Introduction to Shamanism (2009).

J. Scott Miller

J. Scott Miller serves as Associate Professor of Japanese literature at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on the ties between oral and written traditions of verbal art in Japan near the turn of the century, and has appeared in journals such as Monumenta Nipponica and New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan.

Leslie K. Arnovick

Leslie K. Arnovick, Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, works primarily in late medieval English literature. Among her publications are articles in Studia Neophilologica and Oral Poetics in Middle English Literature; she has also written a book on Doringen’s Promise and Scholars’ Premise: Anachronism in Medieval Drama and the Franklin’s Tale.

Bruce Louden

Currently Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas El Paso, Bruce Louden has written widely on Homeric epic, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Indo-European poetics and mythology. He has recently completed a book on the narrative structure of the Odyssey.

R. Scott Garner

R. Scott Garner teaches in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at Rhodes College, where he also serves as the director of the Fellowships Program through which he coordinates experiential learning opportunities for the college’s students. His research interests center around ancient Greek oral traditions, and he is the author of Traditional Elegy: The Interplay of Meter, Tradition, and Context in Early Greek Poetry (2011).

William Merrit Sale

William Merritt Sale, Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at Washington University, has published extensively on Homer, South Slavic, and Romance epic as well as other classical areas. Essays on oral tradition in the Iliad andOdyssey have appeared in journals such as Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, the American Journal of Philology, and Transactions of the American Philological Association.