Yesterday brought news that I’ve had another Tolkien article accepted for publication. This one was co-written by one of my very good friends: A. Keith Kelly, an Assistant Professor at Kutztown University, who specializes in Old English and Old Norse. Keith’s a terrific fellow medievalist who I met at the …
Reading student evaluations is never a fun process for me. I am, by nature, someone who shakes off positive feedback in order to focus like a hawk on anything negative (of which there are, thankfully, usually not many). This weekend I was going over my course evaluations from this past …
One of my current academic projects in process is a book bringing together most of the known material on the 937 CE Battle of Brunanburh — one of the most important (but often forgotten) battles in the history of England. I’m General Editor for the volume, which in this case …
Okay, well not quite completely done. I’m still waiting on material from one graduate student. But, seriously, that’s really close. Good enough for government work, as they say (though one suspects Mr. Obama might well be changing that kind of thinking). Anyway, almost all the grades are in, and I’m …
I’ve got the end-of-semester crunch soon, and an academic book that very much needs as much of my attention as I can manage in the coming months, but I’m still trying to get a bit of space here and there for research on my next fiction book (while crossing fingers …