Finnegan, Ruth

Ruth Finnegan is Emeritus and Research Professor at the Open University, UK. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1933, she studied classics at Oxford, followed by social anthropology, then fieldwork and university teaching in Africa. In 1969 she joined the Open University. Her books include "Oral Literature in Africa" (1970/2012), "Oral Poetry "(1977/1992), "Literacy and Orality" (1988), The Hidden Musicians" (1989/2007), "Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts" (1992), "South Pacific Oral Traditions" (joint ed., 1995), "Communicating" (2002/2014) and "The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words