Belcher, Stephen Paterson, 1953-

LC control no.	n 86041411
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3552.E4593 IEN
Personal name heading	Belcher, Stephen Paterson, 1953- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Belcher, Stephen, 1953-
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Egypt Nigeria Benin Tanzania Kenya France Italy Guinea Mauritania
Birth date	1952-02-07
Place of birth	Cairo (Egypt)
Field of activity	Epic literature, African Mythology, African Comparative literature
Affiliation	Pennsylvania State University Brown University Université de Nouakchott Université de Kankan United States. Department of State Peace Corps (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Literature teachers Authors Translators
Found in	His Stability and change, 1985: t.p. (Stephen Paterson Belcher IV) p. ii (b. 2/7/53 at Cairo, Egypt) Oral epics from Africa, 1997: CIP t.p. (Stephen Belcher) galley (asst. prof. of comp. lit., Pennsylvania State Univ.) The golden secret of Kri Koro, 2021: title page (Stephen Belcher) page 326 (son of a Foreign Service officer, and spent much of his childhood in Africa (Egypt, Nigeria, Benin/Dahomey, Tanzania, Kenya) and in France and Italy; served as a contract interpreter from French with the U.S. State Department accompanying African visitors around the US, which led to work accompanying American performing arts groups to countries in Africa, Asia, the Near East, and Latin America; he has a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Brown University; he has taught at the University of Nouakchott, Mauritania as a Peace Corps volunteer, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Kankan, Guinea on a Fulbright grant; author of Epic traditions of Africa, and African myths of origin; now lives in Vermont; he has completed two translations of books on Guinean history by Lansine Kaba, and is working with colleague Stephen Bulman on a corpus of colonial-era accounts of the story of Sunjata)
Associated language	eng fre