Oral Tradition Volume 12, Number 2October 1997
About the Authors
Catherine Quick
Catherine Quick is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Director of the Coastal Bend Writing Project. Her teaching and research areas include rhetoric and composition, literacy studies, English education, and young adult literature. Quick’s book, Fat Kids Rule the Books: The Rhetoric of Obesity in Young Adult Literature, is forthcoming in 2012.
Chao Gejin
Chao Gejin (Chogjin) is Senior Researcher and Director of the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests cover folkloristics, oral tradition, intangible cultural heritage, and Chinese ethnic minorities’ literatures, especially oral epics. His publications include The Heroic Songs of the Past: Fieldnotes on the Oirat Mongolian Epic Tradition (2004) and Oral Poetics: Formulaic Diction of Arimpi’s Jangar Singing (2000), as well as numerous papers.
Walter Feldman
Walter Feldman, of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches Turkish language and culture and also serves as Coordinator of Turkic Programs. He has contributed articles to such journals as Asian Music, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Yearbook for Traditional Music, and Ethnomusicology.
Leslie Stratyner
Leslie Stratyner is Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi University for Women. Among her publications are “By the Banks of the Acheron: T. S. Eliot, Dante, and ‘The Hollow Men’” and “pe us as beagas geaf: Sauron and the Perversion of Anglo-Saxon Ethos.”
Vaira Vikis-Freibergs
Vaira Vikis-Freibergs, Professor of Psychology at the Université de Montréal, is the editor of Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folk Songs. She has also contributed articles to the Journal of Baltic Studies, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, and the Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore.
Thomas A. Hale
Thomas A. Hale holds the Liberal Arts Professorship in African, French, and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He studies West African epic and griots, both of which are addressed in his Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music (1998).
