My schedule for the Spring semester is reportedly settled into place. I’ll be teaching English 102 (our introduction to literature course), but more interestingly I’ll be teaching my 200-level Tolkien course and an Honors seminar on Norse literature. Vikings and Elves, kids! Vikings and Elves!
A number of folks are swinging through this site as a result of The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook. For those interested in that subject — who are also fortunate enough to live within easy reach of Nottingham — I highly suggest attending the upcoming Norse and Viking Seminar on …
The semester is in full swing here at The Citadel, which has clearly made my life busy again and contributed a bit to the quiet hereabouts. But that’s not the only thing that’s been happening. Earlier this year I was asked to be the Associate Director of the Honors Program, …
I’ve been so busy — pleasantly so, what with going to Wales and all — that I somehow missed the fact that my short story “Purging Cocytus” has earned a second review (you may recall that the first review, from Lois Tilton, was quite good). This time the kind words …
Look what I got in the mail today: Yessir, that there’s my long-awaited (by me and some other geeky Middle English scholars!) edition of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament (MEMPOT), available now from Medieval Institute Publications. I’d been told by the press that I’d be getting …