Oral Tradition Volume 16, Number 1

About the Authors

Linda White

Linda White (Ph.D. in Basque Studies, 1996) is a researcher at the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She co-authored the Basque-English English-Basque Dictionary as well as translated six books on the Basques; she has also published some thirty articles on various Basque topics.

H.C. Groenewald

H. C. Groenewald is a senior lecturer in the Department of African Languages at the University of Johannesburg (formerly Rand Afrikaans University). His research interests include performance and Zulu drama. His recent publications include an article on Ndebele praise poetry in Oral Tradition and a study of Zulu theatre in the South African Theatre Journal.

John F. García

John F. García teaches classics at the University of Iowa, where his research interests include early Greek poetry and the historical and anthropological linguistics of ancient Greek. He is presently finishing a book on religious aspects of Homeric and hymnic performance, on which he has published two articles and given numerous lectures.

Anatole Mori

Anatole Mori is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she specializes in the literary culture and society of the early Hellenistic period. Her research and teaching interests include Homeric epic, classical Greek poetry and prose, Aristotelian philosophy, and ancient attitudes toward gender and ethnicity. She is currently working on a study of the influence of Aristotle’s Politics on New Comedy, as well as a booklength project on the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius.

Guillemette Bolens

Guillemette Bolens is on the faculty of the University of Geneva, where she teaches medieval English literature and comparative literature. She is the author of a recent book, La Logique du corps articulaire: Les articulations du corps humain dans la littérature occidentale (L’Iliade, Beowulf, Lancelot de Chrétien de Troyes), and of articles on Chaucer and Plato.

Derek Collins

Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan, Derek Collins has published a book on Homeric epic, Immortal Armor: The Concept of Alkê in Archaic Greek Poetry, and several articles on archaic Greek poetry, divination, and magic. He is presently completing a book on competition in Greek poetry and performance, and his article in Oral Tradition reflects some preliminary findings of that research.

Stephen Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell, Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University, writes on performance, magic, and witchcraft as well as the Old Icelandic sagas and related forms, as evidenced by his Heroic Sagas and Ballads (1991). He is also curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature and co-editor of its publication series.