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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

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Forthcoming in June

This week sees the last session of the course on Anglo-Saxon. My new course on The Development of the English Language 600 - 1600 will begin on 10th June and again run for 6 weeks, but not consecutively - we will not meet during the first week of July. Further details will be available at the Central Library, Southampton, or by contacting the email address included on this website.

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