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Fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton. Tolkien Society Education Officer. Facilitator for the Tolkien, Shakespeare, and Poetry Reading Groups hosted by the Central Library Southampton. Contact for Tolkien-related matters: educationATtolkiensocietyDOTorg. For all other enquiries: lynnevdaATclaraDOTcoDOTuk

Current Research Projects

  • Sixteenth-century politics in Shakespeare's The Tempest
  • The Significance of the Matter of England in The Lord of the Rings. Associated with this and with the course on Romances see the link to Bevis of Hampton
  • Poetry and its influence in The Lord of the Rings

Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture

For more information about the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, including graduate seminars and conferences, see www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/

See also http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/research/fellows.html

Wednesday, 14 November 2007

Most recent publication

In Tolkien-related research:
ed., The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). This is a collection of essays based on the Proceedings of the Tolkien session at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2006. For more details see www.c-s-p.org

In Medieval and Renaissance research:
'Maidens and Matrons: The Theaticality of Gender in the Tudor Interludes', in Peter Happe, ed., Interludes and Early Modern Society (Amsterdam And New York: Rodopi, 2007), 43-69

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