Oral Tradition Volume 4, Number 3October 1989

About the Authors

Charles Segal

Charles Segal’s most recent books include Interpreting Greek Tragedy (1986), Pindar’s Mythmaking (1986), Language and Desire in Seneca’s Phaedra (1986), and Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet (1989). He is presently a Senior Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences for 1989-90, and will take an appointment as Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard in 1990-91.

William C. Scott

William C. Scott (Humanities Research Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College) has a special interest in classical Greek poetry, both epic and tragic. He has written widely on classical authors; his major works include The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile, A Commentary on Prometheus Bound, a translation of Plato’s Republic, and Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater, which was awarded the 1986 Goodwin Award of Merit by the American Philological Association.

Karl Reichl

Karl Reichl is Professor of English philology at the University of Bonn. He is the author of books on Middle English literature, English word-formation, and Turkic oral epic poetry, including Singing the Past (2000) and a German translation of the Uzbek heroic epic Alpamish (2001). He is at present preparing a performance-oriented edition of the repertoire of a Karakalpak oral epic singer from Uzbekistan.

Wayne Kraft

Wayne Kraft is Professor of German at Eastern Washington University. He participated in John Foley’s 1989 NEH Summer Seminar, “The Oral Tradition in Literature,” and contributed an article to Oral Tradition in the same year entitled “Improvisation in Hungarian Ethnic Dancing: An Analog to Oral Verse Composition.” In 2003 Kraft received an endowed lecture award for “Transylvanian Dancing in the Final Hour” from the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance.

Michael D. Cherniss

Michael D. Cherniss (Professor of English at the University of Kansas) has written a number of books and articles on medieval literature, principally that in Old and Middle English. His continuing interest in the infl uence of oral tradition on Old English literature is refl ected in several of his earlier writings, such as Ingeld and Christ: Heroic Concepts and Values in Old English Christian Poetry, as well as in his current work in progress on Beowulf.

Vincent A. Dunn

Vincent A. Dunn’s biography is not available.