Notes on Contributors
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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 bio-bibliography of the Inklings is an appendix to Diana Pavlac Glyer's book The Company They Keep. He holds an MLS from the University of Washington and has worked as a librarian at Stanford University and elsewhere.
Merlin DeTardo is the general manager at Cleveland Play House. He has contributed articles to the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment and reviews to Mythprint, and is a regular participant in the Reading Room forum at TheOneRing.net.
Rebecca Epstein has worked on the Tolkien Studies annual bibliographies since 2004, with the scope of her efforts increasing each year. She is a recent graduate of Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.
Peter Grybauskas teaches English in Rome, where he also collaborates with the Roman Association of Tolkien Studies (jrrtolkien.it). He has contributed articles to Mythlore and a forthcoming Italian collection, C'era una volta...Lo Hobbit - Alle origini del Signore degli Anelli. He has presented at the ICMS in Kalamazoo and the 7th Annual Tolkien Conference at the University of Vermont. He holds an MA in Literature from the University of Maryland.
Gerard Hynes is a doctoral candidate in Trinity College, University of Dublin. He is writing a dissertation on Tolkien's treatment of the physical world, with a focus on the intersection of Tolkien's theology and ecology. He has taught on the Tolkien course offered as part of the Trinity College's M Phil in Popular Literature and Children's Literature. He is coordinating an international Tolkien conference, "Tolkien: The Forest and the City," with Dr. Helen Conrad-O'Briain in Trinity College in September 2012.
Douglas C. Kane is an attorney specializing in employment discrimination and harassment cases and other civil rights matters. He is also a Middle-earth enthusiast who has loved the works of J.R.R. Tolkien for [End Page 153] more than thirty years. He co-founded and runs the Tolkien Internet discussion site thehalloffire.net. His first book, Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, was published by Lehigh University Press in 2009, with a paperback edition released in 2011; it was a Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies finalist in 2010 and 2011. Doug Kane lives in Santa Cruz, California with his partner, Beth Dyer, and two cats.
Amelia A. Rutledge is an associate professor of English at George Mason University. Trained as a medievalist, her teaching interests include medieval literature (especially Arthurian legend), children's literature, science fiction, fantasy, and intellectual history. She has published articles on Robin McKinley's Deerskin, on the construction of masculinities in the Arthurian novels of Jack Whyte and Bernard Cornwell, and on configurations of nurture in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. [End Page 154]
