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Grendel’s Mother Talks Back
“Grendel’s Mother Talks Back: Contemporary Women’s Mythopoeic Revisions” is a talk I gave for the Midsummer Online Seminar of the Mythopoeic Society in August. A link to the recorded talk is included.
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Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2025
Tolkien studies sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 2025.
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Some glimpses into Westmoot 2025
Some glimpses into Westmoot 2025 including a summary of my keynote and links to other talks that have been since uploaded.
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Shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Best Article Award!
I’m thrilled to find that my article “Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Poetic Allusions and the Experience of Time” has been shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Award! Voting for TS members open until Friday 25 April.
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cfp: Tolkien and War
CFP: Tolkien and War. 21st Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont hybrid conference. April 5, 2025; proposals due Feb. 2.
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Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’
Links to two articles available for free download on J.R.R. Tolkien’s play, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” and a video recording of a conference presentation on Tolkien as a playwright. These essays discuss manuscript revisions, ideas about drama, and allusions to medieval poetry.
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My recent talk: Dreaming the Middle Ages: The Case of Grendel’s Mother
My recent talk: “Dreaming the Middle Ages: The Case of Grendel’s Mother.” Keynote for the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group, Oct. 4, 2024.
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Beowulf as children’s lit: 2 recent publications
Anna Smol’s “Beowulf and Boyology,” explores the conflation of medieval stories and childhood in late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her review of a collection of essays titled “Beowulf as Children’s Literature,” highlights the volume as a valuable resource for studying medieval adaptations for young readers.
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A link to my latest post on Tolkien & Alliterative Verse
Please follow along at tolkienalliterative.ca if you’re interested in the alliterative poems Tolkien wrote. My research assistants and I are building a bibliography of Tolkien’s alliterative verse, some online guides to alliterative metre, and links to some of Tolkien’s notes on the topic. You’ll also find an occasional blog post on what’s new in this…
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Upcoming deadlines: CfPs in Tolkien studies
We’re still enjoying summer weather here in Nova Scotia, but let’s face it, fall is just around the corner, and with it, some deadlines for Tolkien scholars interested in presenting their research at conferences in the coming year. If you don’t intend to propose anything, you still might want to browse the topics that people…
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