Oral Tradition Volume 24, Number 2October 2009
About the Authors
Chris Jones
Chris Jones is Senior Lecturer in English Poetry at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Strange Likeness: the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006) and in 2006 was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on a history of verse lineation in English.
Neil Rhodes
Neil Rhodes is Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews. His interests in sound derive from work on speech for his book Shakespeare and the Origins of English (2004) but also from an earlier collection on the media in history, The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (2000), which he edited with Jonathan Sawday. His essay in the present collection links these more recent interests to Nashe and early modern popular culture, which was the subject of his first book, Elizabethan Grotesque (1980).
Andy Orchard
Andy Orchard is a Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and currently Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College. He is a former Reader in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, and has written widely in those areas, as well as in the field of Medieval Latin. He is currently completing a translation of the Poetic Edda for Penguin Classics, as well as books on Cynewulf, Wulfstan, and the Anglo-Saxon riddle tradition.
Alice Jorgensen
Alice Jorgensen studied for her PhD at the University of York and after a temporary post at the University of Andrews became Lecturer in English to 1500 at Trinity College, Dublin. She has published on Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos and on The Battle of Maldon. An edited volume on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is forthcoming from Brepols. She is currently working on a monograph on the representation of violence in the literatures of Anglo-Saxon England.
John Wesley
John Wesley is a Commonwealth Scholar and doctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2005-2008) at the University of St Andrews. He is currently completing his PhD on rhetorical delivery in the Elizabethan classroom, with particular emphasis on its role in mediating written composition.
Patricia Parker
Patricia Parker, Margery Bailey Professor in English and Dramatic Literature at Stanford University, is the author of Inescapable Romance (1979), Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property (1987), and Shakespeare from the Margins (1996) and co-editor of Shakespeare and the Question of Theory (1985), Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism (1985), Women, “Race” and Writing in the Early Modern Period (1994), and other critical volumes. She is currently preparing a new Arden 3 edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Neil Rhodes
Neil Rhodes is Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews. His interests in sound derive from work on speech for his book Shakespeare and the Origins of English (2004) but also from an earlier collection on the media in history, The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (2000), which he edited with Jonathan Sawday. His essay in the present collection links these more recent interests to Nashe and early modern popular culture, which was the subject of his first book, Elizabethan Grotesque (1980).
James Mulholland
James Mulholland is an assistant professor of English at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). His current research examines the connection between oral culture and the emergence of poetic voice in eighteenth-century Britain. It uncovers and analyzes a century-long experiment with the printed representation of performing voices. His work has appeared in ELH and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Dianne Dugaw
Dianne Dugaw is Professor of English at the University of Oregon. She has written on topics in folklore, literary history, eighteenth-century studies, and women’s and gender studies, including Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 1989; pbk ed., University of Chicago Press, 1996); The Anglo-American Ballad (Garland Publishing, 1995); and ‘Deep Play’—John Gay & the Invention of Modernity (University of Delaware Press, 2001). She has recorded two CDs: Dangerous Examples—Fighting & Sailing Women in Song and, with Amanda Powell and Dorothy Attneave, The Aunties’ Song Kettle—Songs for Kids of All Ages (http://cdbaby.com/dugaw).
Tom Pettitt
Tom Pettitt is a Research Professor affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark’s Centre for Medieval Literature and Cultural Sciences Institute. Designed ultimately to elucidate the vernacular cultures of medieval Europe, his research encompasses oral traditions such as customs, ballads, wondertales, and legends, as well as folk aspects in the work of Renaissance dramatists. He has also contributed to exploring the notion of a “Gutenberg Parenthesis,” which suggests (in line with the work of John Miles Foley) a compatibility between digital and pre-print cultures.
Bruce Johnson
Bruce Johnson, formerly Professor in English, University of New South Wales, is now Adjunct Professor, Contemporary Music Studies, Macquarie University Sydney; Honorary Professor, Music, University of Glasgow; Visiting Professor, Cultural History, University of Turku. His publications include The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz, and The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity. His research lies in acoustic cultural history and the role of sound and music in the emergence of the modern era. With Martin Cloonan of Glasgow University, he has just finished a book called Dark Side of the Tune: Music and Violence, to be published by Ashgate.
Derek Attridge
Derek Attridge teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature in the University of York, England. His books include Well-weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres (Cambridge, 1974); Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (Cornell and Routledge, 1988; reissued 2004); Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1995); J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading (Chicago, 2004); The Singularity of Literature (Routledge, 2004); and How to Read Joyce (Granta, 2007). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.
Chris Jones
Chris Jones is Senior Lecturer in English Poetry at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Strange Likeness: the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006) and in 2006 was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on a history of verse lineation in English.
Emily Greenwood
Emily Greenwood is Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. Her recent publications include Thucydides and the Shaping of History (Duckworth, 2006) and various articles on the reception of Classics in the Caribbean. She is co-editor, with Barbara Graziosi, of Homer in the Twentieth Century: between world literature and the Western canon (Oxford, 2007) and, with Liz Irwin, of Reading Herodotus: a Study of the logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus’ Histories (Cambridge, 2007). She is currently writing a book entitled Afro-Greeks: dialogues between Classics and Caribbean Literature.
