Notes on Contributors
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Douglas A. Anderson is co-editor of Tolkien Studies.
David Bratman reviews books on Tolkien for Mythprint, the monthly bulletin of The Mythopoeic Society, for which he served as editor from 1980-1995. He has edited The Masques of Amen House by Charles Williams, compiled the authorized bibliography of Ursula K. Le Guin, and contributed articles on Tolkien to the journals Mallorn and Mythlore and the book Tolkien's Legendarium (ed. Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter). His documentary chronology of the Inklings is published as an appendix to The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer. He holds an M.L.S. from the University of Washington and has worked as a librarian at Stanford University and elsewhere.
James G. Davis is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Troy University in Alabama. Holder of an MFA in fiction writing, he specialized in American literature, but all of his presentations and publications in the last decade have been in the field of science fiction. This is his first professional journey into the world of Tolkien.
Jason Fisher is an independent scholar living in Dallas, Texas. Recent publications include entries in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (Routledge, 2006) and Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2008), as well as chapters in Tolkien and Modernity (Walking Tree, 2006), The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On (Walking Tree, 2007), and Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). In addition, he has presented papers on J.R.R. Tolkien and the Inklings in a variety of academic settings and conferences. His blog, Lingwë—Musings of a Fish can be found at http://lingwe.blogspot.com.
Lynn Forest-Hill is a former tutor in medieval and renaissance studies at the University of Southampton, UK and King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK. She is now a Fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton and is currently the Education Officer for the Tolkien Society. Besides regular contributions to the publications of the Society, she has published articles on Tolkien's work and influence in the Times Literary Supplement and on the web, as well as publishing a number of short stories. Her medieval and renaissance [End Page 309] research has included a book: Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama, (Ashgate 2000), articles on The Tempest (Shakespeare Survey 59), and the performance of gender in early Tudor drama (in Interludes and Early Modern Society, Rodopi [2007]). She currently runs Reading groups on Tolkien, Shakespeare, Poetry, and is about to launch a series of short courses for adults on early English literature.
Corey Olsen is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where he teaches Tolkien and medieval literature. His other research interests include Geoffrey Chaucer and Sir Thomas Malory. His article entitled "Adulterated Love: The Tragedy of Malory's Lancelot and Guinevere" will appear in Malory and Christianity, forthcoming from the Medieval Institute Press in May 2008.
Carl Phelpstead is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, Wales. His teaching and research interests are primarily in Old Norse-Icelandic and medieval English literature, and in twentieth-century medievalism. He has published several articles on Icelandic sagas and on modern medievalism, and he is the author of Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas (2007), editor of A History of Norway and the Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr (2001), and co-editor of Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture (2007).
Brian Rosebury , Principal Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire, is a literary critic and philosopher. In addition to his published writings on Tolkien, he has delivered invited lectures in Belgium, Poland, and Korea, and teaches an undergraduate course devoted to Tolkien's work. His wider interests are reflected in a book on the aesthetics of fiction, Art and Desire (St Martin's Press, 1988) and in articles in journals including Victorian Poetry, Philosophical Review, the British Journal...
