Oral Tradition Volume 8, Number 2October 1993
About the Authors
Debra Wehmeyer-Shaw
Debra Wehmeyer-Shaw serves as Director of the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education in Columbus. Her fieldwork for this project was conducted in Columbia, Missouri while she was studying oral tradition at the University of Missouri.
Madeline Sutherland
Madeline Sutherland, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin, recently became Chair of her department. Her book, Mass Culture in the Age of Enlightenment: The Blindman’s Ballads of Eighteenth-Century Spain, appeared in 1991.
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.
Miriam Youngerman Miller
Associate Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Miriam Youngerman Miller specializes in Old and Middle English literature. She is editor of Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1986) and co-editor of Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives on the Pearl-Poet (1991).
Thomas A. DuBois
Thomas A. DuBois is Professor of Scandinavian studies and folklore at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among his most recent books are Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe (2006), Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia (2008), and An Introduction to Shamanism (2009).
Mishael Maswari Caspi
Mishael Maswari Caspi, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has published widely on Arabic and Jewish oral traditions, especially the traditions of women. Among his books are Daughters of Yemen (1985) and, with Julia Ann Blessing, who has completed her M.A. in Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, Weavers of the Songs (1991).
Julia Ann Blessing
Julia Ann Blessing, M.A. in Religious Studies from Santa Clara University, co-authored Weavers of the Songs (1991) with Mishael Maswari Caspi, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
ORTRAD-L
ORTRAD-L is an electronic discussion group sponsored by the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition.
