Oral Tradition Volume 8, Number 1March 1993

About the Authors

Ursula Schaefer

A member of the Englisches Seminar and Sonderforschungsbereich on Orality and Literacy at the Universitat Freiburg, Ursula Schaefer has published many influential works, among them Vokalitat: Atlenglische Dichtung zwischen Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit (1992).

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.

James B. Pearce

James Pearce, Professor of Classical Studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, maintains research interests in a variety of Greek authors, especially Homer and Theocritus.

Raymond F. Person, Jr.

Having recently received his doctorate from Duke University, Raymond Person has two books in press, the latter of which brings sociolinguistic analysis to bear on the Old Testament Book of Job.

Eric L. Montenyohl

One of folklorist Eric Montenyohl’s chief interests is represented here in his discussion of strategies for textualization of oral traditions, a topic that he is pursuing in a book-length manuscript. Having received a Ph.D from Indiana University, he now teaches at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Keith Dickson

Presently assistant professor of classics at Purdue University, Keith Dickson has published on Homer, Pindar, and ancient medicine. He is currently writing a book on the Homeric epics, with special emphasis on the contribution of modern theories of narrative.

Egbert J. Bakker

Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. His main interests are oral tradition, pragmatics, and narratology in ancient Greek literature. His books include Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and the Brill Companion to Herodotus (co-ed., 2002).