Wayne Kraft is Professor of German at Eastern Washington University. He participated in John Foley’s 1989 NEH Summer Seminar, “The Oral Tradition in Literature,” and contributed an article to Oral Tradition in the same year entitled “Improvisation in Hungarian Ethnic Dancing: An Analog to Oral Verse Composition.” In 2003 Kraft received an endowed lecture award for “Transylvanian Dancing in the Final Hour” from the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance.