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About the Authors
Michael D. Cherniss
(Professor of English at the University of Kansas) has written
a number of books and articles on medieval literature, principally that in Old and
Middle English. His continuing interest in the influence of oral tradition on Old
English literature is reflected in several of his earlier writings, such as
Ingeld and
Christ: Heroic Concepts and Values in Old English Christian Poetry,
as well as in his
current work in progress on
Beowulf.
Wayne Kraft
teaches German at Eastern Washington University. In addition to his
primary training in medieval studies, he has developed a specialty in Hungarian
and Scandinavian folklore, particularly folk dancing. Kraft has worked with native
Hungarian scholars and artists, and is presently editing a collection of indigenous
folk songs.
Karl Reichl
is Professor of English (linguistics and medieval literature) at the
Universität Bonn. He has also taught at Munich and Bochum, and is at present
Visiting Professor of Turkic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
Reichl has conducted extensive
fi
eld trips to the Turkic-speaking parts of the Soviet
Union and China, and has written extensively on both Old English poetry and
central Asian epic.
William
C.
Scott
(Humanities Research Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College)
has a special interest in classical Greek poetry, both epic and tragic. He has written
widely on classical authors; his major works include
The Oral Nature of the Homeric
Simile, A Commentary on Prometheus Bound,
a translation of Plato’s
Republic,
and
Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater,
which was awarded the 1986 Goodwin Award
of Merit by the American Philological Association.
Charles Segal’s
most recent books include
Interpreting Greek Tragedy
(1986),
Pindar’s Mythmaking
(1986),
Language and Desire in Seneca’s Phaedra
(1986),
and
Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet
(1989). He is presently a Senior Fellow of the
Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences for 1989-90, and will take an
appointment as Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard in 1990-91.

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