This coming Wednesday evening, at 6:30pm, I’ll be presenting a free public lecture here at The Citadel (Bond Hall auditorium, room 165), entitled “Tolkien’s Creation by Edition: The Medieval Origins of The Hobbit.” It should be a really entertaining and informative time!
It is truly amazing how stacked up my semester got with lectures, and the thick of it is right now. Today I gave the keynote lecture at the Lowcountry Writing Project, and Wednesday night I give another lecture — this time free and open to the public, on Tolkien and …
I’ve been so busy that I don’t think I posted notice of a review of The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook. The review is from a somewhat unexpected source, The Fortean Times, but it’s a very flattering one. My favorite highlights: Many books have been written on the subject over …
High noon this coming Saturday, 10 March, I’ll be giving the keynote lecture for the Lowcountry Writing Project’s Spring Conference here in Charleston, SC. As it’s a writing conference largely aimed at teachers, my talk features some pedagogical approaches to writing. Entitled “From Beginning to End: The Universal Presence of …
This afternoon I learned that I’ve been chosen as The Citadel’s delegate to one of the Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminars at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The particular seminar I’ll be at is on the subject of early Christian Apocrypha (the “other” gospels and biblical books that …