Oral Tradition Volume 17, Number 1

About the Authors

Werner H. Kelber

Werner H. Kelber is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Cultures at Rice University. His signature work is The Oral and the Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition, Mark, Paul, and Q (1983; 2nd ed., 1997).

LindaAnn Loschiavo

Native New Yorker LindaAnn Loschiavo has presented programs on the folk culture of southern Italy and Sicily in Manhattan venues such as the American Museum of Natural History, The Harvard Club, and The Players Club, where “Ninu Murina” came alive on stage on February 11, 2003. Her nonfiction work “Return of the Native to Stromboli” was reprinted by nine different publications last year; a bilingual excerpt appears online at www.CyberItalian.com [Galleria section]. With a paternal grandfather from Stromboli and a maternal grandfather from Naples, she is descended from volcano dwellers on both sides.

Maureen N. McLane

Maureen N. McLane is a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. Her book, Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species, appeared in 2000. Her poems have recently appeared in New American Writing, Jacket, and Sugar Mule. She is currently working on two books: Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and other Poetic Mediations of Culture and History, 1800/2000, and Poetry in Prose: Lost Souls, Dead Poets, Live Feeds, and other Media Phenomena.

Thomas A. DuBois

Thomas A. DuBois is Professor of Scandinavian studies and folklore at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among his books are Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala (1995), Nordic Religions in the Viking Age (1999), and Finnish Folklore (2000), the last co-authored with Leea Virtanen.

Andrew Cowell

Andrew Cowell teaches in the Departments of French and Italian, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at the University of Colorado. He works on both medieval European literature and Native American traditional narratives. He is currently completing an anthology of Arapaho oral narratives as well as a book on changing performance traditions among the Northern Arapaho from the nineteenth century to the present.

John McBratney

Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, John McBratney is the author of a recently published book on Kipling, Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling’s Fiction of the Native-Born. He has also published articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and is currently at work on book-length studies of cosmopolitanism in Victorian Britain and of nineteenth-century British discourse on social and racial types.