Peter Ramey is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he is currently completing a dissertation on the intersection of media and aesthetics in early English poetry. An essay he co-authored with John Miles Foley, “Oral Theory and Medieval Literature,” was recently published in the volume Medieval Oral Literature. Another article, “Variation and the Poetics of Oral Performance in Cædmon’s Hymn,” will appear this coming fall in Neophilologus.