Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Luke J. Chambers is a doctoral student in English at Indiana University. He holds an M.A. from Western Michigan University in Medieval Studies and a B.S. from University of Wisconsin–River Falls in Physics and Mathematics. His doctoral research is in elves and fairies in Middle English romances and their relation to estrangement and possible worlds, and his master's thesis is on heroines of the Old Norse Trójumanna saga. His general interests are medieval languages and literature, especially romances, sagas, epics, and legends.
David Bratman is co-editor of Tolkien Studies.
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 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.
Megan N. Fontenot holds a dual B.A. in English and Humanities from Milligan College and an M.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University. Her work has been published in the journals Mythlore and Fafnir. She is also a regular blogger for Tor.com and is currently working on a series exploring the textual histories and developments of various Tolkien characters. She will be pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature, with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature and Tolkien studies, at the University of Georgia this fall.
Tom Hillman taught Greek, Latin, and Ancient History, and has published on Rome in the Late Republic and the use of Plutarch's Lives as a source. He also posts frequently on Tolkien, among others, at alasnotme.blogspot.com.
The Very Rev. John Wm. Houghton is Dean of the Alumni Chapel and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy, emeritus, 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 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, [End Page 273] and is the author of two fantasy novels, Rough Magicke and Like a Noise in Dreams, the novella Fortunate Empire, and Falconry and Other Poems.
Anika Jensen earned her B.A. in English from Gettysburg College and is currently pursuing an M.A. in English from the University of South Alabama. Her creative writing has been featured in several literary journals, and her scholarship focuses on femininity in the Scottish Women's Hospitals on the Eastern Front of the Great War. She occasionally blogs at anikajensenwriting.wordpress.com.
Marie H. Loughlin is associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia–Okanagan. She is the author of Hymeneutics: Interpreting Virginity on the Early Modern Stage (Bucknell UP, 1997) and Same-sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550–1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts (Manchester UP, 2014). She has published articles on Aemilia Lanyer, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, An[ne] Collins, and Thomas Campion; she has an article forthcoming in Janice M. Bogstad's collection The Hobbit in Fiction and Film (McFarland, 2019). She is presently completing a monograph on early modern women writers and genealogy.
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 fifteen years, and is the editor of the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia Reader's Diary website.
Kate Neville recently received her M...
