Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic

Have you ever wanted to discover more about the mythological, legendary history of snakes? Well here’s your chance! Join the University of Glasgow at The Hunterian for a series of evening events this summer! More details below 👇

Have you ever wanted to discover more about the mythological, legendary history of snakes? Well here's your chance! Join the University of Glasgow at The Hunterian for a series of evening events this summer!

27th June: Medieval Wyrms and Victorian Sea Serpents!
8th August: Sensational Stories and Firm Facts (including a real snake dissection
29th August: Cryptips and Lost Worlds!
5th September: Film night

A very big thank you to the team for their dedication and hard work in giving us all a fantastical GifCon conference year after year, and to all of the speakers and attendees for being a part of it!

Catch up on some of the talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqHIKCFV72egvZCi92PNw970kp0SM5qt-

We have been devouring every word of the last two days of . We're both excited for tomorrow and sad it's the last day.

What have been your highlights so far?

Today's the day! Get those applications in!
Sign up here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiting/internationalsummerschool/ourcourses/fantastictexts/ ,teachingpattern,entryrequirements

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Congratulations to and Dr Andoni Cossio for winning Best Article at the 2025 Awards!
Access their article '"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings' in English Studies 105, #6:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2344915

Fantasy and the Fantastic,

Who? What? When? Where? See below for our International Summer School info and let us know if you have any questions!
https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiting/internationalsummerschool/ourcourses/fantastictexts/ ,teachingpattern,entryrequirements

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Literature course, Fantasy Academia Fantasy and the Fantastic,

The APPLICATION DEADLINE for our International Summer School is coming up! Don't miss out! https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiting/internationalsummerschool/ourcourses/fantastictexts/ ,teachingpattern,entryrequirements

Fantasy and the Fantastic, Fantasy Literature courses, Literature Courses,

Can you guess which fantasy series each map belongs to? We're are surveying these texts and more across different media while exploring critical approaches and recent theoretical debates. You will also have an opportunity to try your hand at writing fantasy in a Creative Writing workshop!
📚 Sign up this week here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiting/internationalsummerschool/ourcourses/fantastictexts/ #

A fantastical summer of fantasy books await you.

Apply here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiting/internationalsummerschool/ourcourses/fantastictexts/ #

University short course, summer school, fantasy books

🎉 FANTASTIC NEWS 🎉

One of our PhD students, Tom Emanuel, and Taylor Driggers-McDowall, an affiliate and former tutor on our Fantasy MLitt, have published articles in the new issue of Mythlore: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

Scroll down to find out more👇

'An Aspirational Cultus? Tolkien Fandom at the Borders of Belief' draws upon fan studies, sociology of religion, and Tolkien’s theory of sub-creation to theorize the religious implications of Enyalië, the graveside memorial which closes the Tolkien Society's annual gathering in Oxford.

'Eucharistic Eroticism and Homonationalism in Diane Duane's The Tale of the Five' argues that Duane’s series articulates eroticism in a manner comparable to Linn Marie Tonstad’s (2016) q***r re-visioning of transubstantiation and bodily and spiritual transformation through the Eucharist.