John Miles Foley

John Miles Foley is Byler Chair in the Humanities, Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English, and director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri, Columbia, as well as founding editor of the Journal Oral Tradition. In addition to Immanent Art, Traditional Oral Epic, The Singer of Tales in Performance, and The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology, he has written numerous articles in the fields of oral tradition, ancient Greek, Old English, and South Slavic.