What’s my life like these days? Well, here’s a selection of snapshots from my life this past week: Saturday, 2:54 pm. Idly thinking about what Wednesday’s Tolkien lecture will focus on, I begin to ponder the possibility of a new philological reading for a line in The Hobbit. The idea …
Another of my freshmen students has had his essay accepted for publication in the Lesser Squawk. Congratulations, Michael Nicholas!
I realized today that my online C.V. was distressingly out of date. So I’ve uploaded a new copy that includes forthcoming papers and work in progress (like Brunanburh). It’s not exciting reading.
I spent a good couple of hours this afternoon building the next couple of lectures for my Tolkien class. It’s been interesting. Partly because it’s Tolkien, of course, but also because I’m doing the slides using Google Presentations instead of PowerPoint. I’d frankly grown tired of being forced to remember …
Among the interesting things to happen this past week: I received a request from Children’s Literature Review to reprint an article that I published last year in the academic journal Mythlore. CLR is an annual “Best of Criticism” collection, so it’s a pretty nifty honor. Even better, it pays. I …