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Have you ever wanted to discover more about the mythological, legendary history of snakes? Well here’s your chance! Join...
18/06/2025

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...
18/06/2025

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

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.Wh...
08/05/2025

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.

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Congratulations to and Dr Andoni Cossio for winning Best Article at the 2025 Awards! Access their article '"Sir Gawain...
27/04/2025

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

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🎉 FANTASTIC NEWS 🎉One of our PhD students, Tom Emanuel, and Taylor Driggers-McDowall, an affiliate and former tutor on o...
18/04/2025

🎉 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/

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'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.

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