Oral Tradition Volume 19, Number 1March 2004

About the Authors

Lori Ann Garner

Lori Ann Garner is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the author of Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England (2011) and has published articles on medieval English poetry and oral traditions. Her current research focuses on Anglo-Saxon charms and remedies.

Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris is Professor in the English Department and the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. Among his many publications are articles on “Beowulf’s Name,” “Beowulf as Epic,” and “Gender and Genre: Short and Long Forms of the Saga Literature.” His forthcoming and in-progress work addresses Norse mythology, religion, and related poetry; ballads and issues of performance; and Beowulf.

Edward R. Haymes

Edward R. Haymes teaches in the Department of Modern Languages at Cleveland State University. He has published on Middle High German epic, Old Norse poetry and prose, and Richard Wagner. His most recent book is Das Nibelungenlied: Geschichte und Interpretation (1999).

Holly Hearon

Holly Hearon is Associate Professor of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary. She has published numerous articles on the written and spoken word in the first-century CE Mediterranean world, with a particular emphasis on storytelling. She is the author of The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counter-witness in Early Christian Communities (2004).

Kristin Kuutma

Kristin Kuutma is Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum and teaches at the University of Tartu, where she focuses on reflexive studies of cultural representations and expressive traditions. Her dissertation at the University of Washington was entitled “A Sámi Ethnography and A Seto Epic: Two Collaborative Representations in their Historical Contexts” (2002).

Isidore Okpewho

Isidore Okpewho is State University of New York Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Binghamton University and President of the International Society for Oral Literature in Africa. Among his numerous publications are African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity (1992) and Once Upon A Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity (1998).