I have an essay in this year’s Tolkien Studies. It’s called “The Art of Eternal Disaster: Tolkien’s Apocalypse and the Road to Healing.” Be sure to check it out!

My paper on Tolkien and Francis Thompson (presented at Mythcon last year and subsequently published in Mythlore) is now freely available to download! Check it out!

John Updike, style icon: https://www.gq.com/gallery/john-updike-style-icon

New group for studies of Piers Anthony. Exemplar of Winnicottian play in a field of often dark, dour and free movement suppressing (the ogres are going to eat you, not engage in actually-quite-interesting-once-you-get-used-to-them conversations with you). Liberal, Paul Krugman-admiring, vegan, Jimmy Carter-admiring, unappreciated giant of…[Read more]

New group for studies of Gene Wolfe. Avant-garde. Phenomenological. Psychological/social interactionist. Let’s bring him into the MLA. https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/gene-wolfe/forum/

A paper about hobbit names I wrote a couple of years ago. It is perhaps more fun than digital-humanities papers usually turn out to be.

https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:10059/