Oral Tradition Volume 7, Number 1March 1992
About the Authors
Paul Sorrell
A specialist in Anglo-Saxon poetry, Paul Sorrell received his doctoral degree from Cambridge University, where he wrote on “Studies in the Treatment of Theme and Its Sources in Some Old English Narrative Poems.” He is now a member of the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Joseph Sobol
Joseph Sobol is Coordinator of the Storytelling Graduate Program at East Tennessee State University. He is a co-founder and co-editor of Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies. His most recent book, The House Between Earth and Sky: Harvesting New American Folktales, was published in 2005.
Joan N. Radner
Joan Radner teaches in the Department of Literature at The American University. Her prime interests fall in areas shared by folklore and literature: storytelling, folklore and literary theory, Irish verbal arts, and women's studies.
Ward Parks
Ward Parks is the author of Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative: The Old English and Homeric Traditions (1990) and numerous articles combining interests in medieval English and ancient Greek oral traditional poetry with a perspective from contemporary critical theory. He now resides in Ahmednagar, India, where he has served since 1998 as part of a research team editing and reconstructing materials for the Avatar Meher Baba Trust.
Lea Olsan
Lea Olsan is Professor of English and Foreign Languages at Northeast Louisiana University. She has recently written articles for the Encyclopedia of Medieval Folklore ("Medicine") and for Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia ("Magic").
Thomas A. McKean
Thomas A. McKean, a Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, specializes in the Scots and Gaelic song traditions of Scotland. His publications include Hebridean Song-Maker: Iain Macneacail of the Isle of Skye (1997) and articles on various aspects of Scottish tradition.
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.
Willi Erzgräber
Willi Erzgräber is Professor of English Literature in the Englisches Seminar at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany, where he also co-directs the Sonderforschungsbereich on Orality and Literacy, a multi-departmental research consortium. Professor Erzgräber has published widely on British literature of all periods, with special emphasis on modernism.
Warren S. Walker
Warren Walker’s biography is not available.
Carolyn Higbie
Carolyn Higbie is Park Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo. Her most recent publications focus on the Greeks’ knowledge of their past, and her current research explores issues of collection and forgery in ancient Greece.
