Oral Tradition Volume 7, Number 2October 1992
About the Authors
Emmanuel Obiechina
Emmanuel Obiechina teaches African literature at the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford. Among his numerous publications are Culture, Tradition, and Society in the West African Novel (Cambridge, 1978) and Language and Theme: Essays on African Literature (Howard, 1990).
Svetozar Koljević
Equally conversant with modern British and his native South Slavic literature, Svetozar Koljević is Professor at the University of Sarajevo. His study The Epic in the Making (Oxford, 1980) provides the best English-language guide to the literary history of the South Slavic epic.
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).
Marilynn Desmond
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Marilynn Desmond specializes in medieval studies. Her Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Aeneid in the Middle Ages (Pennsylvania) will be published in 1993.
Sioned Davies
Sioned Davies, Professor of Welsh at Cardiff University, has published extensively on medieval storytelling as reflected in the tales of the Mabinogion. Her current project, “Performing from the Pulpit,” examines the dramatic preaching of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Wales.
Mary P. Coote
Mary Putney Coote, who teaches at San Franscisco Theological Seminary, works in South Slavic and has a particular interest in women’s songs. Her publications include articles in California Slavic Studies, the Journal of American Folklore, and the Oinas collection on Heroic Epic and Saga.
Alla Astakhova
Alla Astakhova, a specialist in Russian folklore, is a member of the Philological Faculty at Moscow State University.
Hiroyuki Araki
Author and editor of numerous publications on Japanese folklore, Hiroyuki Araki, now retired and living in Hiroshima, has most recently presided over the edition of A Series of Folk Narratives of the World (16 vols, Miyai-shoten, 1975-89) and Märchen of the World (28 vols., Komine-shoten, 1982-90).
