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Professor, African Oral and Written Literatures E-mail: hescheub@wisc.edu
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Dr.Scheub is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature and one of the world's leading scholars in African oral traditions and folklore. To record oral traditions he has walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho. Dr. Scheub has published more than two dozen books and more than 70 articles. His course, The African Storyteller, is one of the most popular classes on the UW campus - regularly enrolling 500 students.
Degrees:
Ph.D.
African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969
M.A. English Literature, University of Michigan, 1960
BA, with distinction, English Literature, University of Michigan, 1958
Courses Taught: (click links for PDF syllabi)
AF210
- The African
Storyteller
AF270
- Hero and Trickster
AF412
- Contemporary African Fiction
AF471
- Oral Traditions and the Written Word
AF902
- Seminar in African Oral Tradition
AF935
- Seminar in South African Oral and Literary Traditions
AF955
- Seminar in African Mythology
Selected Publications:
A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Storyteller as Mythmaker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Poem in the Story. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Story. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.