Oral Tradition Volume 8, Number 1March 1993
About the Authors
Ursula Schaefer
A member of the Englisches Seminar and Sonderforschungsbereich on Orality and Literacy at the Universitat Freiburg, Ursula Schaefer has published many influential works, among them Vokalitat: Atlenglische Dichtung zwischen Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit (1992).
William Merrit Sale
William Merritt Sale, Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at Washington University, has published extensively on Homer, South Slavic, and Romance epic as well as other classical areas. Essays on oral tradition in the Iliad and Odyssey have appeared in journals such as Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, the American Journal of Philology, and Transactions of the American Philological Association.
James B. Pearce
James Pearce, Professor of Classical Studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, maintains research interests in a variety of Greek authors, especially Homer and Theocritus.
Raymond F. Person, Jr.
Raymond F. Person, Jr., is Professor of Religion at Ohio Northern University. His research interests include the application of oral traditional studies to ancient texts and the application of conversation analysis to literature. Although his primary area of research is the Hebrew Bible, he has also published on Homer, Shakespeare, and modern English-language short stories and novels.
Eric L. Montenyohl
One of folklorist Eric Montenyohl’s chief interests is represented here in his discussion of strategies for textualization of oral traditions, a topic that he is pursuing in a book-length manuscript. Having received a Ph.D from Indiana University, he now teaches at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Keith Dickson
Presently assistant professor of classics at Purdue University, Keith Dickson has published on Homer, Pindar, and ancient medicine. He is currently writing a book on the Homeric epics, with special emphasis on the contribution of modern theories of narrative.
Egbert J. Bakker
Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. His main interests are oral tradition, pragmatics, and narratology in ancient Greek literature. His books include Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and the Brill Companion to Herodotus (co-ed., 2002).
