About the Authors
- About the Authors
Paul Battles Paul Battles is Professor of English at Hanover College. His research focuses on the intersection between orality, tradition, and intertextuality. He has written extensively on Old English traditional themes, with essays on the subject appearing in Studies in Philology, Modern Philology, and Anglo-Saxon England. His forthcoming essay "Old Saxon-Old English Intertextuality and the 'Traveler Recognizes His Goal' Theme in The Heliand" examines another theme rooted in Germanic poetic tradition.
Virginia Blankenhorn Virginia Blankenhorn received her Ph.D. in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and held academic posts at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Ulster in Coleraine. Now retired and living in Edinburgh, she continues to research and publish on topics relating to the poetry and song traditions of Gaelic Scotland and Ireland.
Michael D. C. Drout Michael D. C. Drout is Professor of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, where he teaches Old and Middle English, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Drout is the author of How Tradition Works, Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literature, and Drout's Quick and Easy Old English. He recently co-authored Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis.
Mary Knight Mary Knight received her Ph.D. in Classics from New York University, with a dissertation on Strabo's Egypt. In association with that work she received a Fulbright Scholarship to Egypt, and consequently developed an interest in modern Egypt. She is currently preparing an expanded version of this article for an e-book (Stylistics of the Qur'ān: A Handbook of Grammatical and Linguistic Features and Rhetorical Figures).
Duncan Poupard Duncan Poupard is Assistant Professor in Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in the translation of Chinese ethnic minority texts, particularly of the Naxi minority, focusing on issues of identity and hybridity. He has worked with museums and research groups around the world, including the Barcelona Museum of World Cultures and the British Library. Recent academic articles have appeared in Neohelicon and the Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese.
Leah Smith Leah Smith is the Creative Director for the public arts collective Tape Art. A graduate of Wheaton College, Massachusetts, she is co-author of Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis and "Lexomic Analysis of Anglo-Saxon Prose: Establishing Controls with the Old English Penitential and the Old English translation of Orosius."
Maria Vivod Maria Vivod, Ph.D., is an Associate Researcher in Cultural Anthropology at the Dynamics of Europe Research Laboratory in Strasbourg, France. Her research interests are ethnomedicine, visual/Eastern European anthropology. She is the author of ten ethnographic documentaries, some of which are part of the permanent exposition in the media library of Musée de l'Homme (Paris). Her publications include Fifteen Years After—An Anthropological Field from a Diachronic Angle and Radmila—the Fairy-clairvoyant. Rethinking Ethnopsychiatry—a Case Study from Serbia.
Charles D. Wright Charles D. Wright is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A specialist in Old English literature, he is author of The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature and numerous essays on Old English poetry and prose. Among his recent publications is another article dealing with oral-traditional formulae: "An Old English Formulaic System and Its Contexts in Cynewulf's Poetry."
