Foley, John Miles
Contributed to
ef06'Udovica Jana'
'Udovica Jana'article 1976
ef06Traditional recall and family histories
Traditional recall and family historiesessay 1977
- Summary
- John Miles Foley was a scholar of comparative oral tradition, particularly medieval and Old English literature, Homer and Serbian epic. He was the founder of the academic journal Oral Tradition and the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri, where he was Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English and W. H. Byler Endowed Chair in the Humanities. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1947 [2]
- 1947-01-22 [5]
- Birth Place
- Northampton, Mass. [3]
- Northampton [5]
- Died
- 2012 [2]
- 2012-05-03 [5]
- Death Place
- Columbia [5]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [5]
- literary critic [5]
- university teacher [5]
- journalist [5]
- classical scholar [5]
- Employer
- University of Missouri [5]
- University of Belgrade [5]
- Work Place
- Missouri (Staat) [2]
- Educated at
- University of Massachusetts Amherst [5]
- Colgate University [5]
- Country of Education
- United States [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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