Notes on Contributors

Maria Artamonova, D.Phil. (Oxon.) has taught Old and Middle English as well as courses on Tolkien at Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education and a number of summer schools. Her publications include "Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles," in Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (2010), "Edith Tolkien in the Eye of the Beholder," in Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History (2021). She has also contributed to translations of Tolkien's works and Tolkien criticism into Russian.

Mark Atherton is Senior College Lecturer in English language and literature at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. He is the author of There and Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit (2012) and has published on Hildegard of Bingen, philology and the study of language in the nineteenth century, and early medieval English history and literature. His recent publications include Complete Old English (2019) and The Battle of Maldon: War and Peace in Tenth-Century England (2021).

Tom Birkett is the Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork (UCC), where he coordinates the Medieval and Renaissance MA. He specializes in the reception of Old English and Old Norse literature and is the author of Reading the Runes (Routledge) and editor of the collections Translating Early Medieval Poetry and The Vikings Reimagined. His retelling of Norse myth and legend was recently published as The Norse Myths by Quercus.

David Bratman is coeditor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review and edited The Masques of Amen House by Charles Williams. His articles include studies of Tolkien, the Inklings, Mervyn Peake, and Neil Gaiman. Formerly a librarian at Stanford University, he works as a classical music critic.

Liam Campbell is an independent writer and scholar from Northern Ireland who has lectured in English literature for the University of Ulster. He is the author of The Ecological Augury in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien (2011) and has published previously on Tolkien and environmentalism, as well as given many talks across Europe and America on Tolkien, ecocriticism, and contemporary literature.

Anna Caughey D.Phil. (Oxon.) has taught Old and Middle English at Keble College and Harris Manchester College, Oxford, in addition to working on a variety of outreach and digital projects at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on masculinity, conflict, and ethical conduct in both medieval and contemporary medievalist literature. Her most recently published articles are on children and adolescents as readers of late medieval advisory writing and representations of gender and sexuality in late medieval Scottish romance.

Cait Coker is Associate Professor and Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the intersections of genre history, women's writing, and the history of women in publishing. She is Coeditor of the Women in Book History Bibliography, a senior bibliographer for the Science Fiction Research Index, and has published articles in The Seventeenth Century, Transformative Works and Cultures, and the Journal of Fandom Studies. Most recently, she has edited the volume The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World (McFarland, 2020).

Janet Brennan Croft is Associate University Librarian for Content Discovery at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2004; Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies). She has also written on the Peter Jackson films, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other topics, and is editor or coeditor of many collections of literary essays, including Tolkien on Film (2004), Tolkien and Shakespeare (2007), Baptism of Fire (2015), Perilous and Fair (2015), and 'Something Has Gone Crack': New Perspectives on Tolkien in WWI (2019). She edits the scholarly journal Mythlore.

Patrick Curry is a writer and scholar living in London. He is the author of several books, including Deep Roots in a Time of Frost: Essays on Tolkien (2014), Ecological Ethics, rev. 2nd edn. (2017) and Enchantment (2019), as well as many papers on Tolkien. He has been a Lecturer at Bath Spa University and the University of Kent.

Leslie A. Donovan is a professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. She is author of "The Valkyrie Reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings," editor of Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works (MLA 2015), and coeditor of Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien (with Janet Brennan Croft, Mythopoeic Press, 2015).

Bradford Lee Eden is Director of Scholarly Connections at Drexel University. He has a master's and PhD in musicology and an MS in library science. He publishes in the areas of librarianship, medieval music and liturgy, and J.R.R. Tolkien. His most recent books are Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien (2010) and The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences (2014). He is also the editor of The Journal of Tolkien Research.

Rachel Falconer is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne. Her publications include Orpheus Dis(re)membered: Milton and the Myth of the Poet-Hero (Continuum, 1996), Hell in Contemporary Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2005), The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership (Routledge, 2009), and as contributing editor, Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on Her Work (EUP 2014); with Adlam, Makhlin, and Renfrew, Face to Face: Bakhtin Studies in Russia and the West (Continuum, 1997); with Karin Littau, Invention: Literature and Science (EUP, 2005); with Andrew Oliver, Re-reading/La relecture: Essays in Honour of Graham Falconer (Cambridge Scholars, 2012); with Denis Renevey, Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Science and Medicine (Gunter Narr, 2013), with Madeleine Scherer, A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature (Routledge, 2020). She is currently finishing a monograph entitled Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry (EUP, forthcoming 2021).

Dimitra Fimi is Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. She has published two award-winning monographs on J.R.R. Tolkien and on Celtic-inspired children's fantasy, and she has coedited original manuscripts by Tolkien on linguistic invention (A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, HarperCollins, 2016). She has also published on world-building, medievalism, children's literature, and adaptation. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Journal of Tolkien Research, and she often contributes to TV and radio programs on fantasy. Many of her published essays and articles are available open access via her website: http://dimitrafimi.com/.

Verlyn Flieger is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, where for 36 years she taught courses in Tolkien, Medieval Literature, and Comparative Mythology. She is the author of five critical books on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien: Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World; A Question of Time; Interrupted Music; Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien; and There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien. She edited the extended edition of Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major. With Carl Hostetter she edited Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, and with Douglas A. Anderson she edited the expanded edition of "On Fairy-Stories." She is a coeditor of the yearly journal Tolkien Studies. She has also published two fantasy novels, Pig Tale and The Inn at Corbies' Caww, an Arthurian novella, Avilion, and the short stories "Green Hill Country" and "Igraine at Tintagel."

Christopher Garbowski is an Associate Professor at the Department of English at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland. He is the author of several books, including Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2000) and Spiritual Values in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings (2005). His most recent book is Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present: National Identity in the Historical Films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda (2018).

John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War (2003) won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award; his second book, Tolkien at Exeter College (2014), was a nominee. His latest, The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien (2020), continues his ongoing study of the roots and routes of Tolkien's creativity. A winner of the Tolkien Society's Outstanding Contribution Award, Garth read English at St. Anne's College, Oxford, worked for many years for the London Evening...