#  Joseph Harris 

Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor in English

Ph.D. Harvard University

 

 

 



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 An editor of the journal *Oral Tradition*, Joseph Harris is a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Scandanavian language and culture. He has published extensively on Germanic myth, the heroic tradition, and Anglo-Saxon literature, with a particular interest in the Beowulf poem, its language, and its literary history. He is the editor (with Barbara Hillers) of *Child's Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies (*Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013).



 

 

 





 

 

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