Lord-Parry Lecture Series

Lectures are customarily delivered during the Fall semester and published in Oral Tradition within a year. Starting in 2006, lectures will be either simultaneously webcast live or videotaped and archived for later viewing on the CSOT site.

Upcoming Lecturers

Previous Lord and Parry Lecturers

  • Joseph J. Duggan, French and Comparative Literature, U. C. Berkeley
  • Alan Dundes, Folklore, U. C. Berkeley
  • Sioned Davies, Welsh, University of Cardiff
  • Joseph Falaky Nagy, Celtic, UCLA
  • William C. Scott, Ancient Greek, Dartmouth
  • Ruth Finnegan, African, The Open University, London
  • Willi Erzgräber, Modern Novel, Universität Freiburg
  • Ursula Schaefer, Old English, Universität Freiburg
  • Richard Bauman, Folklore, Indiana University
  • Werner Kelber, New Testament, Rice University
  • Candace Slater, Brazilian, U. C. Berkeley
  • Susan Niditch, Old Testament, Amherst College
  • Lauri Harvilahti, Folklore, University of Helsinki
  • Barre Toelken, Folklore, Utah State University
  • Barry Powell, Ancient Greek, University of Wisconsin
  • Mark C. Amodio, Medieval English, Vassar College
  • Chogjin, Mongolian, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  • Stephen Mitchell, Scandinavian, Harvard University
  • Samuel G. Armistead, Hispanic, U. C. Davis
  • Joseph Harris, Germanic, Harvard University
  • Shelly Fenno Quinn, Japanese, Ohio State University
  • Paulu Zedda, University of Cagliari