Harold Scheub has taught African storytelling for decades, but he still has the unflagging enthusiasm that kept him walking through southern Africa decades ago to find storytellers in remote areas and learn from them.
The 76-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison professor speaks nonstop rapid-fire to the 460 students crowded into a huge lecture room in Bascom Hall. He talks about the importance of storytelling and how the same patterns of stories have developed over the years in countries on different continents.
“I love my research, I enjoy writing, but my passion is teaching. I haven’t thought of retirement yet,” he said later.