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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 14 June 2011

Courses run on the English in the Afternoon programme

Anglo-Saxon Literature
English Drama Before Shakespeare
English Poetry and History
The Faerie Queene,
The Development of the English Language 600 -1600 AD
Paradise Lost
Introducing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Medieval Romances (Fourteenth-century Middle English verse romances)
Shakespeare and Marlowe: Introducing late Elizabethan Drama
Women in Medieval English Literature

Forthcoming in 2012:
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Late 20th and 21st century Poetry

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