Oral Tradition Volume 10, Number 1March 1995
About the Authors
Keyan Tomaselli
Keyan Tomaselli, who teaches film studies at the University of Natal/Durban in South Africa, and Maureen Eke, at Michigan State University’s African Studies Center, have contributed to such periodicals as the South African Theatre Journal, Media Information Australia, and a collection of essays entitled Oral Studies in Southern Africa (1990).
Maureen Eke
Keyan Tomaselli, who teaches film studies at the University of Natal/Durban in South Africa, and Maureen Eke, at Michigan State University’s African Studies Center, have contributed to such periodicals as the South African Theatre Journal, Media Information Australia, and a collection of essays entitled Oral Studies in Southern Africa (1990).
Steve Reece
Steve Reece is Professor of Classics at Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He has published a wide variety of articles and book chapters on Homeric studies, New Testament studies, comparative oral traditions, historical linguistics, and pedagogy. He is also the author of a book about the rituals of ancient Greek hospitality, The Stranger’s Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene (1993), and of a study of early Greek etymology entitled Homer’s Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory (2009).
Walter J. Ong
One of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of study that Oral Tradition serves, Walter J. Ong, now University Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Saint Louis University, has published a brilliant succession of books and articles, among them The Presence of the Word (1967), Interfaces of the Word (1977), Fighting for Life (1981), and Orality and Literacy (1982).
Russell H. Kaschula
Formerly a lecturer in the Department of Xhosa at the University of the Western Cape, Russell Kaschula has accepted an appointment to the University of Cape Town. He has contributed such essays as “New Wine in Old Bottles: Some Thoughts on the Orality-Literacy Debate, with Specific Reference to the Xhosa Imbongi” (1991).
Bonnie D. Irwin
Professor of English and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Eastern Illinois University, Bonnie D. Irwin has published scholarly and pedagogical essays on the subject of frame tales. She is currently working on an edited volume about teaching the 1001 Nights.
Jesse Byock
Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Jesse L. Byock has published a number of books, among them Feud in the Icelandic Saga (California, 1984) and a translation, The Saga of the Volsungs (California, 1990).
Timothy W. Boyd
Timothy W. Boyd is an associate research professor in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo. His interests include oral performances of heroic material from around the world, British and American poetry from the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, and military history.
F. Odun Balogun
Professor of English at Delaware State University, F. Odun Balogun specializes in African and African American literature. Among his publications are Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story (1991) and Adjusted Lives (1995), a collection of his own short stories.
Mark C. Amodio
Mark C. Amodio, Professor of English at Vassar College, is the author of Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England (2004). He has recently co-edited, with Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. (2003).
