Nicole Revel is Emeritus Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (CNRS). Her recent publications include Songs of Memory in Islands of Southeast Asia (2013, ed.) and Literature of Voice: Epics in the Philippines (2008, ed.). She has conducted extensive fieldwork for over forty years on Palawan language and oral traditions, and in 1991 began documenting Palawan intangible heritage with the goal of a multimedia archive in mind, now The Philippine Epics and Ballads Archive.