raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun:
One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes.
Raconteur is from French, from raconter, "to relate, to tell, to narrate," from Old French, from re- + aconter.
Higher education in all its "glory": teaching, writing, politics (when it's possible to be discreet, of course), and anything I have to profess or confess.