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The Signum Scene — 141 episodes

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Thesis Theater: J. Michael Southards, "Sophistic Critique into the Lewis-Plato Conversation"

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Thesis Theater: Tamara Bootsma, "The Old Swedish Bjärköarätten: an English Translation"

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Thesis Theater: Elizabeth (Libby) Lyon, “Chaucer’s Enigmatic Quitting of The Canterbury Tales"

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State of the University Address, 2025

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Storyweb 005 - Stacy Aannestad

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Thesis Theater: Bronwyn Rivera, "Pilgrimage Narrative in Violet Evergarden"

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Thesis Theater: Grace Bennett, “Neutral and Evil Technology in Lewis and Tolkien"

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Thesis Theater: Sarah Shahan Polo, "The Lord of the Rings, Modernism, and The Counterculture"

9

Storyweb 004 - Julian Barr

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Thesis Theater: Jeffrey Wade, "Do the Inhabitants of Arda Know How Their Own Story Ends?"

11

Thesis Theater: Fr. Andrew Damick, "Divine Council Theology in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth"

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Storyweb 003 - Brad Patty

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Thesis Theater: Sarah Monnier, "Toward a Digital Edition of Widsið"

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Storyweb 002 - What Has Gone Before

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Thesis Theater: Kimberly McKinney, "Ecology, Eucatastrophe, and Estel"

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Storyweb 000 - Trailer

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Storyweb 001 - Sparrow Alden

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State of the University Address, 2024

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Thesis Theater: Jay Moses, "Seedbed Of Darkness: M.R. James, Folk Horror, And 17th Century England"

20

Thesis Theater: Peter DeVault, "Illuminating the Metrical Grammar of Germanic Alliterative Poetry"

21

Thesis Theater: Julia Stowe, "Time and Eternity in 8-10th c. West Germanic Language and Literature"

22

Thesis Theater: Robert Black, "Beowulf as a Christian Critique of Germanic Heroism"

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Thesis Theater: Celesta Clegg, "Original Sin: A Portrait of the Fall Through Germanic Texts”

24

Thesis Theater: Shannon Choudhari, "Notion Club Papers and Tolkien’s Vision of Creative Mysticism"

25

Thesis Theater: Trevor Brierly, "Tolkien's Vision of Faërie in 'Smith of Wooton Major'"

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Thesis Theater: Timothy Francis, "Administrative Art as Genre in Kafka, Tooker, and Ravn"

27

Thesis Theater: Duane Watson, "Dominate or Preserve: Magic as a Means of Production in Middle-earth"

28

Thesis Theater: Laurel Stevens, "An Awareness of Debts: Dark Academia and its Source-Texts"

29

State of the University Address, Fall 2023

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Thesis Theater: Kira Tregoning, "The Semantic and Narrative Meaning in Homeric Epithets"

31

Thesis Theater: Gina Petrone, "'Let Me In!' Vampirism in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights"

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Thesis Theater: Christoph Schabert, "Magus Saga Jarls: A Digital Edition"

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Thesis Theater: Patrick Lyon, "The Familiar and the Strange in the Old English Rhyming Poem"

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Summer Courses 2023

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Thesis Theater: Jennifer Ewing, “The Promises to the Overcomer”

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Spring Courses 2023

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State of the University Address, Fall 2022

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Thesis Theater: Nadia Schafer, "One Strange (s)Elf:...the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf"

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Fall Courses 2022

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Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, "Sub-creation Through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium"

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Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, "Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien's Epic of War"

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Thesis Theater: Emily Austin, "The Road Gives Ever On: the Road Motif in Lord of the Rings"

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Thesis Theater: Taylor Johnson Guinan, "Ventures into the Land of the Dead in Children's Literature”

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Thesis Theatre: Phil Knight, “Drauma-Jóns Saga: A Digital Edition and Translation”

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Summer Courses 2022

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Spring Courses 2022

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Thesis Theater: Elise Trudel Cedeño ~ "Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic"

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Hugo Award 2021: Best Novel Roundtable

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Thesis Theater: Ryan Moniz ~ “Brewing Óðinn’s Mead: A Reconstructive Approach”

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Thesis Theater: Eugene Sullivan ~ "Red Indians in Middle Earth"

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Tales in the Dark: A Samhain Romp

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State of the University Address, Fall 2021

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Thesis Theater: Shawn Gaffney ~ Hidden Contact: Unremarkable Evidence of Brittonic and Latin Effects

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Dr. Joy Sanchez-Taylor: Author Talk and Q&A on Science Fiction and Authors of Color

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Fall Courses 2021

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Thesis Theater: Maximilian Hart ~ Draconic Diction: Truth and Lies in Le Guin's Old Speech

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Summer Courses 2021

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Holly Ordway: Author Chat and Q&A on Tolkien's Modern Reading

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Carolyne Larrington - Author Q&A on Game of Thrones

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Fireside Poetry for the Winter Solstice

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The Tower by Owen Barfield: Presentation and Q&A

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Thesis Theater with Mark Lachniet

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State of the University Address, Fall 2020

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Open Class: The Anatomy of the Vampire Myth

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Thesis Theater with Gwen Grant

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Open Class: Adaptations and Fandoms

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Thesis Theater with Jens Hieber

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Thesis Theater with Alexis Heit

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How the Humanities Can Fix the Foundational Skills Gap

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Roundtable on Fall 2020 Courses

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Thesis Theater with Mickey Corso

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Hugo Award 2020: Best Novel Roundtable

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John Garth Author Chat and Q&A

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Thesis Theater with Amy Troolin

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Thesis Theater with Keli Fancher

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Thesis Theater with Anne Marie Gazzolo

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Thesis Theater with David Hepting

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State of the University Address, Spring 2020

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Thesis Theater with Christopher Hawkins

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Roundtable on Summer 2020 Courses

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Teaching Engaging Classes Online

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An Eglerio to Christopher Tolkien

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Roundtable on Spring 2020 Courses

84

Ghost Stories for the Winter Solstice

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What is Signum Culture?

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Narnia and Friendship

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Phillip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth

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Thesis Theatre with Kelly Orazi

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C.S. Lewis, Gender, and The Four Loves

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Thesis Theatre with Stephen Wiseheart

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Thesis Theatre with Sara Waldorf

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Thesis Theatre with Richard Rohlin

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Thesis Theatre with Richard Rohlin

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Thesis Theatre with Emily Denny and Lola Lindle

95

Mental Health in the Academy

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Thesis Theatre with Jenn Raimundo

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Mythmoot V: 05 - JRR Tolkien's Guidelines for Translation and Sir Orfeo

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Mythmoot V: 06 - Narrative Functions of Sickness in Egils Saga Skallagrimssonar and Laxdaela Saga

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Mythmoot V: 07 - Crossing Frontiers from the Home front to the Battlefront

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Mythmoot V: 04 - The composite authorship of Andreas

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Mythmoot V: 03 - The Postmodern Kaleidoscope of London Below in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere

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Mythmoot V: 02 - Tolkien’s Crossing of Revisionary Boundaries

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Mythmoot V: 01 - Welcome

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Thesis Theatre with Franny Moore-Kyle and John Costello

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Tom Shippey's "Laughing Shall I Die"

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How to Present at Conferences

107

Transhumanism in Literature Roundtable

108

State of the University Address: Certification Update

109

Thesis Theatre with Rob Gosselin

110

The Inklings and King Arthur Roundtable

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Thesis Theatre with Tyler Swope

112

Faculty Chat with John Garth

113

Readings from Signum Webathon 2017

114

All About the MA Program at Signum 2017

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Thesis Theatre: Katherine Sas

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Episode 26: Tolkien's Sigurd and Gudrún, Part 3

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Tolkien's Sigurd and Gudrún, Part 2

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Tolkien's Sigurd and Gudrún, Part 1

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Old Norse Roundtable - April 2017

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Tolkien Dark Kullervo Aotrou And Itroun 1

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JRR Tolkien's Beowulf with Dr. Tom Shippey, Part 3

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JRR Tolkien's Beowulf with Dr. Tom Shippey, Part 2

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JRR Tolkien's Beowulf with Dr. Tom Shippey, Part 1

124

One Fantastic Rogue Beast

125

Christmas Faculty Roundtable, 2016

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Thesis Theatre: Kris Swank

127

Thesis Theatre: Aaron Masters and Dan Kinney, with Sarah Brown and Sørina Higgins (2016-09-17)

128

State of the University: Signum in 2016

129

Dr. Corey Olsen Blinks with His Take on Doctor Who

130

Talking Adaptation with Jim Butcher

131

Dr. Dimitra Fimi: Halloween in Literature

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Mythgard Academy: The Father Christmas Letters, by J.R.R. Tolkien

133

Sparrow Alden & Dave Kale: Fun with Words in The Hobbit

134

Guest Lecture Series Malcolm Guite – The Truth of Imagination in the Writings of Lewis and Tolkien

135

Guest Lecture Series Tom Shippey – Myth in Modern Fantasy

136

Guest Lecture Series Amy H. Sturgis – The Jedi, the Cowboy, and Thomas Edison? Pulp Science Fiction and Star Wars

137

Thesis Chat Sparrow Alden – Words That You Were Saying

138

Guest Lecture Series David Brin – Can Science Fiction Change The World?

139

Guest Lecture Series Matthew Dickerson – Tolkien as Early Environmentalist

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Guest Lecture Series Michael Drout – Lexonomic Analysis of Beowulf

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Faculty Chat Professor Sørina Higgins – The Heraldry of Heaven