John D. Niles

John D. Niles is author of Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature and a number of other books relating to early medieval literature and the theory and practice of oral narrative. Before his retirement in 2011, he taught at Brandeis University; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was the Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities.