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Thesis Theater: Shae Rossi, "Movement Through Enchantment...the Otherworld in Tolkien’s Legendarium"
Thesis Theater: Galen Miller-Atkins, "Word-Foot Theory and the Early Runic Language"
Thesis Theater: J. Michael Southards, "Sophistic Critique into the Lewis-Plato Conversation"
Thesis Theater: Tamara Bootsma, "The Old Swedish Bjärköarätten: an English Translation"
Thesis Theater: Elizabeth (Libby) Lyon, “Chaucer’s Enigmatic Quitting of The Canterbury Tales"
State of the University Address, 2025
Storyweb 005 - Stacy Aannestad
Thesis Theater: Bronwyn Rivera, "Pilgrimage Narrative in Violet Evergarden"
Thesis Theater: Grace Bennett, “Neutral and Evil Technology in Lewis and Tolkien"
Thesis Theater: Sarah Shahan Polo, "The Lord of the Rings, Modernism, and The Counterculture"
Storyweb 004 - Julian Barr
Thesis Theater: Jeffrey Wade, "Do the Inhabitants of Arda Know How Their Own Story Ends?"
Thesis Theater: Fr. Andrew Damick, "Divine Council Theology in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth"
Storyweb 003 - Brad Patty
Thesis Theater: Sarah Monnier, "Toward a Digital Edition of Widsið"
Storyweb 002 - What Has Gone Before
Thesis Theater: Kimberly McKinney, "Ecology, Eucatastrophe, and Estel"
Storyweb 000 - Trailer
Storyweb 001 - Sparrow Alden
State of the University Address, 2024
Thesis Theater: Jay Moses, "Seedbed Of Darkness: M.R. James, Folk Horror, And 17th Century England"
Thesis Theater: Peter DeVault, "Illuminating the Metrical Grammar of Germanic Alliterative Poetry"
Thesis Theater: Julia Stowe, "Time and Eternity in 8-10th c. West Germanic Language and Literature"
Thesis Theater: Robert Black, "Beowulf as a Christian Critique of Germanic Heroism"
Thesis Theater: Celesta Clegg, "Original Sin: A Portrait of the Fall Through Germanic Texts”
Thesis Theater: Shannon Choudhari, "Notion Club Papers and Tolkien’s Vision of Creative Mysticism"
Thesis Theater: Trevor Brierly, "Tolkien's Vision of Faërie in 'Smith of Wooton Major'"
Thesis Theater: Timothy Francis, "Administrative Art as Genre in Kafka, Tooker, and Ravn"
Thesis Theater: Duane Watson, "Dominate or Preserve: Magic as a Means of Production in Middle-earth"
Thesis Theater: Laurel Stevens, "An Awareness of Debts: Dark Academia and its Source-Texts"
State of the University Address, Fall 2023
Thesis Theater: Kira Tregoning, "The Semantic and Narrative Meaning in Homeric Epithets"
Thesis Theater: Gina Petrone, "'Let Me In!' Vampirism in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights"
Thesis Theater: Christoph Schabert, "Magus Saga Jarls: A Digital Edition"
Thesis Theater: Patrick Lyon, "The Familiar and the Strange in the Old English Rhyming Poem"
Summer Courses 2023
Thesis Theater: Jennifer Ewing, “The Promises to the Overcomer”
Spring Courses 2023
State of the University Address, Fall 2022
Thesis Theater: Nadia Schafer, "One Strange (s)Elf:...the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf"
Fall Courses 2022
Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, "Sub-creation Through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium"
Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, "Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien's Epic of War"
Thesis Theater: Emily Austin, "The Road Gives Ever On: the Road Motif in Lord of the Rings"
Thesis Theater: Taylor Johnson Guinan, "Ventures into the Land of the Dead in Children's Literature”
Thesis Theatre: Phil Knight, “Drauma-Jóns Saga: A Digital Edition and Translation”
Summer Courses 2022
Spring Courses 2022
Thesis Theater: Elise Trudel Cedeño ~ "Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic"
Hugo Award 2021: Best Novel Roundtable
Thesis Theater: Ryan Moniz ~ “Brewing Óðinn’s Mead: A Reconstructive Approach”
Thesis Theater: Eugene Sullivan ~ "Red Indians in Middle Earth"
Tales in the Dark: A Samhain Romp
State of the University Address, Fall 2021
Thesis Theater: Shawn Gaffney ~ Hidden Contact: Unremarkable Evidence of Brittonic and Latin Effects
Dr. Joy Sanchez-Taylor: Author Talk and Q&A on Science Fiction and Authors of Color
Fall Courses 2021
Thesis Theater: Maximilian Hart ~ Draconic Diction: Truth and Lies in Le Guin's Old Speech
Summer Courses 2021
Holly Ordway: Author Chat and Q&A on Tolkien's Modern Reading
Carolyne Larrington - Author Q&A on Game of Thrones
Fireside Poetry for the Winter Solstice
The Tower by Owen Barfield: Presentation and Q&A
Thesis Theater with Mark Lachniet
State of the University Address, Fall 2020
Open Class: The Anatomy of the Vampire Myth
Thesis Theater with Gwen Grant
Open Class: Adaptations and Fandoms
Thesis Theater with Jens Hieber
Thesis Theater with Alexis Heit
How the Humanities Can Fix the Foundational Skills Gap
Roundtable on Fall 2020 Courses
Thesis Theater with Mickey Corso
Hugo Award 2020: Best Novel Roundtable
John Garth Author Chat and Q&A
Thesis Theater with Amy Troolin
Thesis Theater with Keli Fancher
Thesis Theater with Anne Marie Gazzolo
Thesis Theater with David Hepting
State of the University Address, Spring 2020
Thesis Theater with Christopher Hawkins
Roundtable on Summer 2020 Courses
Teaching Engaging Classes Online
An Eglerio to Christopher Tolkien
Roundtable on Spring 2020 Courses
Ghost Stories for the Winter Solstice
What is Signum Culture?
Narnia and Friendship
Phillip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth
Thesis Theatre with Kelly Orazi
C.S. Lewis, Gender, and The Four Loves
Thesis Theatre with Stephen Wiseheart
Thesis Theatre with Sara Waldorf
Thesis Theatre with Richard Rohlin
Thesis Theatre with Richard Rohlin
Thesis Theatre with Emily Denny and Lola Lindle
Mental Health in the Academy
Thesis Theatre with Jenn Raimundo
Mythmoot V: 05 - JRR Tolkien's Guidelines for Translation and Sir Orfeo
Mythmoot V: 06 - Narrative Functions of Sickness in Egils Saga Skallagrimssonar and Laxdaela Saga