Oral Tradition Volume 19, Number 1

About the Authors

Lori Ann Garner

Lori Ann Garner, Lecturer in the English Department at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, has published articles on medieval literature and oral traditions in Neophilologus, Studia Neophilologica, and Western Folklore. She has also contributed to the volumes Teaching Oral Traditions (1998) and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (forthcoming).

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 Assistant Professor of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary and the author of The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counter- Witness in Early Christian Communities (2004). Her research interests include oral narrative and social memory in relation to biblical texts as well as the place of women in Christian origins.

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).