Wolfgang Mieder is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for thirty-one years as chairperson of the Department of German and Russian. He is an internationally acknowledged proverb scholar, the author of the two-volume International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology (2009), and the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship (since 1984). His numerous books and articles are concerned with cultural, folkloristic, historical, linguistic, literary, philological, social, and political topics. Among his more recent books are "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words": Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature, and Mass Media (2008), "Making a Way Out of No Way": Martin Luther King’s Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric (2010), "Behold the Proverbs of a People": Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics (2014), and "Right Makes Might": Proverbs and the American Worldview (2019).