Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
David Bratman is co-editor of Tolkien Studies.
Simon J. Cook is an intellectual historian who has become increasingly interested in the scholarly tomes that Tolkien never wrote and the overlap between his theoretical speculations on language and history, on the one hand, and his fairy stories, on the other. Of late he has found himself house bound conducting an experimental regime of home schooling.
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.
Christopher Gilson is the publisher of the journal Parma Eldalamberon, for which he has co-edited a number of Tolkien’s writings in and about his invented languages, such as The Gnomish Lexicon, The Qenya Lexicon, Early Elvish Poetry, and Words, Phrases and Passages in The Lord of the Rings. He has contributed to Tolkien’s Legendarium and the journals Mythlore, Vinyar Tengwar, and Arda Philology.
Peter Grybauskas is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Maryland, where he teaches Tolkien courses both on campus and abroad in the UK. He is currently at work on a monograph, and his essays have appeared in Mythlore, Tolkien Studies, and edited collections in English and Italian.
Wayne G. Hammond is the Chapin Librarian at Williams College in Massachusetts, where he has been a specialist in rare books and manuscripts for more than forty years. His descriptive bibliographies of J.R.R. Tolkien (1993) and Arthur Ransome (2000) are standard references.
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 on Honor of Tom Shippey (McFarland, 2014). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Mythlore and the Journal of Tolkien Research, 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.
Michael P. Keaton is Associate Professor of History at Southern Wesleyan University. His specialties include twentieth-century U.S. military history, the post–Civil War South, and political philosophy. Keaton has made appearances on the History Channel’s Hillbilly: The Real Story and in the PBS documentary, The Outlaw Lewis Redmond. He is also the author of the science fiction novel, All Hail The Emperor, and he is always looking for someone with $50 million who would like to produce the movie version. He currently resides in Seneca, SC, with his wife and two daughters.
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.A. in Tolkien Studies from Signum University with a thesis examining the development of Lúthien Tinúviel through 1931. Her previous degree was from Vassar College in 1975, where she majored in drama. The intervening years were devoted primarily to family and local theater; she currently keeps the books for her husband’s online publishing business, serves on the board of the local public library, and looks forward...
