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  • About the Authors

Timothy W. Boyd is an associate research professor in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo. His interests include oral performances of heroic material from around the world, British and American poetry from the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, and military history.

Adam Brooke Davis completed his dissertation under John Foley’s direction at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1991. Following a postdoctoral year at Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, he has taught medieval literature, folklore, linguistics, and creative writing at Truman State University. He has also occupied a number of administrative roles and serves as editor of the literary journal GHLL and webmaster for the Missouri Folklore Society.

Michael D. C. Drout is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He is the author of Tradition and Influence (forthcoming) and How Tradition Works: A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of the Anglo-Saxon Tenth Century (2006), and has edited J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beowulf and the Critics (2003, rev ed. 2011), the J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (2006), and the journal Tolkien Studies (2003-present).

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).

Lori Ann Garner is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the author of Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England (2011) and has published articles on medieval English poetry and oral traditions. Her current research focuses on Anglo-Saxon charms and remedies.

R. Scott Garner teaches in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at Rhodes College, where he also serves as the director of the Fellowships Program through which he coordinates experiential learning opportunities for the college’s students. His research interests center around ancient Greek oral traditions, and he is the author of Traditional Elegy: The Interplay of Meter, Tradition, and Context in Early Greek Poetry (2011).

Morgan E. Grey is presently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she is working on a dissertation on Ovid. Her research interests include Latin poetry and the reception of classical literature. She has recently published an essay, “Mashups: Ancient and Modern.”

Dave Henderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008 and is an independent scholar who lives and works in eastern Missouri. His research has focused on the begging poem in Old and Middle English.

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.

Holly Hobbs is a public sector ethnomusicologist currently working in conjunction with Tulane University in New Orleans to design and launch a digital archive of post-Katrina hiphop music and oral history, while also serving as an archivist for the popular public radio show American Routes. Hobbs has conducted extensive fieldwork on folk songs and folklife throughout East Africa, Ireland, and the American South, and her interests in musical activism, documentary film, and digital media literacy have led to fascinating work with the Patois International Human Rights Film Festival, The KnowLA Project, and many other projects.

Professor of English and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Eastern Illinois University, Bonnie D. Irwin has published scholarly and pedagogical essays on the subject of frame tales. She is currently working on an edited volume about teaching the 1001 Nights.

Ruth Knezevich is a graduate student in English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research interests include folklore and oral tradition in literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish studies, and the ballad trends in eighteenth-century Britain.

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...

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