Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Paul Acker is Professor of English at Saint Louis University, where he teaches Tolkien’s main subjects, Old English and Old Norse. He has published “On Tolkien’s Shadowfax and Old Norse Names for Horses,” in Translating the Past: Essays on Medieval Literature in Honor of Marijane Osborn (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012). He is currently writing a book on dragons from classical myth through modern fantasy.
David Bratman is coeditor of Tolkien Studies.
Simon Cook is an intellectual historian. For over two decades he has studied various facets of Victorian and Edwardian scholarship, ranging from political economy through the history of historical thought and related developments in classics, anthropology, and archaeology. He is interested in the ideas of an age as yet unfragmented by modern disciplinary specializations and is especially attracted by the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, whose imagination was singularly free of ready-made ideas. He is an independent scholar and cofounder of Rounded Globe, which publishes accessible electronic scholarship.
Edith L.Crowe is Faculty/Librarian Emerita at San José State University in San José, California. A Mythopoeic Society member for over 30 years, she served on its board, the Council of Stewards, for 15. She has published a number of articles and book reviews in both library-focused and fantasy-focused journals and has presented papers and served on panels at many conferences. Among her papers is “Power in Arda: Sources, Uses and Misuses,” first published in the Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference 1992 and recently reprinted in Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan (Mythopoeic Press, 2015).
Matthew M. DeForrest is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at Johnson C. Smith University. His recent published works have appeared in in the Yeats Journal of Korea, the Yeats Annual, and W. B. Yeats’s A Vision: Explications and Contexts. He has presented recently at the International Yeats Society’s inaugural 2015 conference in Limerick, Ireland, and the International Conference on W. B. Yeats in Seoul, South Korea. He has also worked as an educational consultant and game designer and has served on a number of boards and commissions, including the Monroe Historic Commission Board, the Union County Community Action Board, and the Executive Council of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. [End Page 319]
Jason Fisher is the editor of Tolkien and the Study of His Sources (McFarland, 2011), which won the 2014 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. With Salwa Khoddam and Mark R. Hall, he coed-ited C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology and C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Discovering Hidden Truth (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 and 2015). Fisher’s work has appeared in Tolkien Studies, Mythlore, the Journal of Inklings Studies, and other journals, books, and encyclopedias.
John Wm. Houghton, an Episcopal priest, is Firestone Endowment Chaplain and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He has contributed to the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, Tolkien the Medievalist, Mythlore, and Tolkien Studies and was most recently editor in chief of Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey (McFarland, 2014). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Mythlore and the Journal of Tolkien Research.
John Magoun is a teacher of high school social studies and other subjects for hospitalized students, as well as a tutor for college admissions tests. Prior careers include designing scenery for stage and film, for which he won a Daytime Emmy in 1996. At various times he has taken degrees from Harvard, New York University, and Columbia. A Tolkien fan since childhood, he has been active in TheOneRing.net’s Reading Room forum for over ten years and is the editor of the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia Reader’s Diary website.
Jeremy Painter is an English literature professor at Regent University in Virginia...
