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David F. Elmer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University and Assistant Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature. He has published articles on ancient Greek literature and South Slavic epic in the journals Classical Antiquity, Classical Philology, Transactions of the American Philological Association, and Oral Tradition. He is currently working on a book-length study of collective decision making in the Iliad.

Carl Lindahl is Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor in English at the University of Houston. He has published in the fields of folk narrative, medieval folklore, and festive folklore and has conducted his most extensive fieldwork with the regional cultures of the mountain South, French Louisiana, and Lowland Scotland. He is currently researching narrative communities in eastern Kentucky, Lowland Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and codirecting Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, the world's first large-scale project in which disaster survivors take the lead in documenting their experiences.

Tonya N. Taylor is a postdoctoral fellow at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She has published on diverse topics such as Shona folklore, the political ecology of HIV/AIDS, quality of life and AIDS, traditional African medicine, and the relationships among medical discourses, knowledge, and power. Her research examines embodied experiences of sickness and disease, as expressed through discourse and personal-experience narratives.

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