Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
David Bratman is co-editor of Tolkien Studies.
Kathy Cawsey is Associate Professor of English Literature at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She publishes primarily on medieval literature, especially Chaucer and Malory, and teaches medieval literature as well as Tolkien and modern fantasy. This is her first foray into publishing on Tolkien after a moment in class when she realized that Gollum's poem was fourteen lines long.
Giovanni Carmine Costabile holds an Mphil in Philosophy from the Università della Calabria in Italy. Prior work experiences include journalism and different artistic endeavours: a collection of his poems, Lingue di te, was published in Italy in 2017. Currently he is working as a private teacher and a freelance translator, while researching and publishing as an independent scholar with forthcoming publications in the Inklings Jahrbuch and in the Peter Roe Memorial Fund papers of the Tolkien Society.
Edith L. Crowe is Faculty/Librarian Emerita at San José State University in San José, California. A Mythopoeic Society member for over thirty years, she served on its board, the Council of Stewards, for fifteen. She has published a number of articles and book reviews in both library-focused and fantasy-focused journals, and 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).
Jason Fisher is the editor of Tolkien and the Study of His Sources (Mc-Farland, 2011), which won the 2014 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. With Salwa Khoddam and Mark R. Hall, he co-edited 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.
Christopher Gilson is the editor and publisher of the journal Parma Eldalamberon, for which he has coedited a number of Tolkien's writings in and about the Elvish languages, such as The Gnomish Lexicon, The Qenya Lexicon, Early Elvish Poetry, and Words, Phrases and Passages in The [End Page 297] Lord of the Rings. He has contributed to Tolkien's Legendarium and the journals Mythlore, Vinyar Tengwar, and Arda Philology.
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.
Jeffrey J. MacLeod is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. MacLeod holds a PhD in political science (Western) and his research explores politics, culture and art through arts-based methods of inquiry. Journals in which his work is published include Mythlore, Mallorn (illustrations), The Artifice, The International Journal of the Image, The Canadian Journal of Political Science and the Canadian Parliamentary Review. Macleod is also an active visual artist (drawing and painting).
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, John 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...
