Oral Tradition Volume 15, Number 2October 2000
About the Authors
Sybil Thornton
Sybil A. Thornton, Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, has published extensively on medieval Jishû (a Japanese Buddhist order), the epic, and Japanese cinema.
Koenraad Kuiper
Koenraad Kuiper teaches linguistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and has published in the fields of English vernacular oral traditions, morphology, and literary theory. He is the author of Smooth Talkers (1996), and has written on auctioneering, sports announcer talk, checkout operator small talk, weather forecasting, and ritual insult. He has also published three volumes of poetry.
Anna-Leena Siikala
Anna-Leena Siikala, chair of Folklore Studies at the University of Helsinki, is currently serving as Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland, where she is conducting a multinational research project entitled “Myth, History and Society: Ethno/Nationalism in the Era of Globalisation.” She also serves as editor-in-chief of both The Encyclopedia of the Uralic Mythologies and Studia Fennica.
Stephan Meyer
Stephan Meyer is currently working on a Ph.D. in philosophical theories of intersubjectivity and collaborative life-writing at Basel University. His publications focus on South African literature and contemporary critical theory. He is currently co-editing Telling lives: Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography with Judith Lütge Coullie and Thengani Ngwenya.
Lauri Harvilahti
Lauri Harvilahti is the Director of the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society. His research interests and activities include epic poetry, Finnish Kalevala poetry, folklore archive research, ethno-cultural worldviews, issues of cultural identity, and the history of folkloristics. He has carried out fieldwork in Russia, the Upper Altay in China, India, Bangladesh, and Kenya. His publications include four monographs, seven singly edited or co-edited volumes, and several dozen articles or book chapters, in various languages.
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).
