John Miles Foley
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.
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- Northampton
- Educated at
- University of Massachusetts AmherstColgate University
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- 🏆 Fulbright Scholarship🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
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