Oral Tradition Volume 1, Number 2May 1986
About the Authors
Mark W. Edwards
Mark W. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Stanford University. His main research interest is ancient Greek epic, and he is the author of several books on Homer, including Homer: Poet of the Iliad (1987) and volume 5 of the Cambridge University Press commentary on the Iliad (1993).
Margaret Clunies Ross
Margaret Clunies Ross, a member of the English department at the University of Sydney, has for some time had a special interest in the oral traditions of the Australian Aborigines. She has carried on fieldwork, particularly in North Arnhem Land, and has written numerous articles and monographs on this area.
Joseph Falaky Nagy
Joseph Falaky Nagy is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Co-Coordinator of the UCLA Program in Oral Tradition Studies. He is the author of books and articles on medieval Celtic narrative, including Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (1997).
David Bynum
David E. Bynum (Cleveland State University) was trained in Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University. His The Daemon in the Wood: A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns (1978) treated the motif of the two trees in the world’s folk literature. Dr. Bynum is also an editor of the Parry Collection series Serbo-Croatian Heroic Songs.
Ruth House Webber
Ruth House Webber (University of Chicago, Emerita) was the first to introduce the scholarship of Parry and Lord to Spanish medieval literature in 1951. She is author of a long and distinguished series of articles and monographs on the oral traditional forms of epic and ballad, especially in relation to questions of style and narrative structure.
Elizabeth Hoffman
Elizabeth Hoffman is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University. Her areas of concentration include the influence of classical Greek and Roman cultures and literatures on the western Renaissance in light of the rise of western literacy and the impact of print.
Franz Bäuml
Franz H. Bäuml (University of California/Los Angeles) has done much to extend studies in oral tradition to Middle High German poetry. In a series of articles, he has stressed the audience’s “reception” as well as the poet’s composition, with special emphasis on the uses of literacy and the social function of the texts involved.
Frank Gurrmanamana
Frank Gurrmanamana’s biography is not available.
