Information about Contributors
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Evangelos Gr. Avdikos is a professor of folklore and popular culture in the Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece. His research interests include folktales, fables, riddles, proverbs, and oral history.
Heather A. Haas is an associate professor of psychology at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia. Her research focuses on determining what types of behavior are most likely to be advocated by proverbial wisdom and on understanding how people's endorsement of proverbial wisdom is related to their personality traits.
Wolfgang Mieder is a professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for thirty-one years as the chairperson of the Department of German and Russian. He is an internationally acknowledged proverb scholar, the author of the two-volume International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology, and the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. His numerous books and articles published in German or English are concerned with cultural, folkloristic, historical, linguistic, literary, philological, social, and political topics. While he has published on fairy tales, legends, folk songs, and other genres, his major scholarly work deals with the international, comparative, and diachronic study of proverbs in all their manifestations.
Jack Thiessen, retired professor of German at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of the Mennonite Low German Dictionary, published by the Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He coauthored Mennonitische Namen/Mennonite Names with Victor Peters and wrote Mennonitische Jeschichten, a collection of short stories. He is considered one of the leading contemporary writers of Mennonite Low German.
Katharine Young is an independent scholar, writer, and visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine and Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative and the editor of Bodylore. She is currently studying the relationship between gestures and narrative, body image, space, interiority, consciousness, volition, thought, emotion, memory, and time in somatic psychology. [End Page 123]
