#  Joseph C Harris 

Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor of English and Research Professor of Folklore

 

 

 



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**Education**: B.A. 1961 University of Georgia; B.A. 1967 Cambridge; M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1969 Harvard.  
**Interests**: Old English; Old Norse-Icelandic; Folklore and Mythology.  
**Selected Works:** Child’s Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies*,* ed. (2012); ‘Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing’: Old Norse Studies by Joseph Harris (2008); Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse, ed. (1997); “Eddische Dichtung und die Ballade. Stimme, Vokalität und Performanz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von DgF 1,” Balladen-Stimmen. Vokalität als theoretisches und historisches Phänomen (2012), 39-57; “Performance and Performers” (with K. Reichl), Medieval Oral Literature (2011), 141-202; “Early Germanic Oral Literature,” ibid., 253-78; “The Rök Stone through Anglo-Saxon Eyes,” The Anglo-Saxons and the North (2009), 11-46; “Philology, Elegy, and Cultural Change,” Gripla 20 (2009): 257-79; “Myth and Meaning in the Rök Inscription,” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2 (2006): 45-109

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)