The new Autumn 2008 programme offered by Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning is now online here. A hard copy of Choices will be available soon. To see my courses for the academic year 2008-2009 go to Teaching section above.
Tolkien on Fairy-Stories
A new expanded edition of Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories” has just been published, edited by Douglas Anderson and Verlyn Flieger. The book includes previously unpublished versions of the essay, rejected passages, as well as a critical study of the history…
Space, Time, Machine and Monster
A science fiction, fantasy and horror conference, organised by Academi, will take place on Saturday 21 June 2008. Space, Time, Machine and Monster: A Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conference for the Valleys will be held at the University of…
Tales Before Narnia
Following the successful Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas Anderson has now edited a wonderful collection of tales that inspired C.S. Lewis, entitled Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction. This delightful anthology includes stories by Roger Lancelyn…
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History
My book Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in Autumn 2008. For more information see Publications.
Old Norse Made New
A collection of essays entitled Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture, edited by David Clark and Carl Phelpstead, has been published by the Viking Society for Northern Research. The essays investigate…