Global Blake Podcast: Blake and Tolkien’s Mythmaking
I joined Sharon Choe, Annise Rogers, and Jason Whittaker at Global Blake to discuss the similarities and differences between Blake’s and Tolkien’s mythologies. You can listen to the episode here.
Mythopoeic Society Midwinter Seminar: Three Papers on Middle-earth’s Heterotopias
Marita Arvaniti, Mariana Rios Maldonado, and I came together to consider how various landscapes in Middle-earth can be read according to Michel Foucault’s heterotopias. You can watch our paper here.
Seed Talks: The Epic History of The Lord of the Rings
Seed Talks has invited me to talk about the history of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. If you would like me to share my talk at a venue near you then contact Seed Talks here.
The Keats Foundation: Prospects and Retrospections
I presented material from my MbyRes on Keats’s and Tolkien’s shared interest in Faery as a shared British heritage.
Tolkien Society Seminar: Tolkien’s Romantic Resonances
I presented part of my PhD research on the continuities and rejections of various forms of Romantic authorship in Tolkien’s writing. You can watch my paper here.
International Medieval Congress
I shared some speculative thoughts on how Speculative Philosophy can help us rethink how ruins in Tolkien’s Middle-earth are more complex than simply being sites of nostalgia.
Tolkien Society: Oxonmoot
Journee Cotton and I co-presented a paper on how Tolkien’s writing about Middle-earth appears to share some of the emerging ecological anxieties around climate change in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
University of Oxford: Tolkien Seminar Series
In May 2024 I guest lectured on some of my research from my PhD at the University of Oxford.
University of Edinburgh
I was invited to guest lecture on the metatextual features of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkien Society: Westmoot
I guest lectured on part of my PhD research on the Neo-Romantic resonances in The Lord of the Rings.
CHASE MEMRN: Tolkien’s Romantic Medievalism
I was invited to guest lecture for CHASE MEMRN on the various ways that Tolkien’s writing engages with Medievalism in a Romantic manner.
The Byron Society
I was invited by the Byron Society to guest lecture on the ways that Byron’s literary and cultural legacies are embodied and performed in Tolkien’s writing about Middle-earth.
Will Sherwood 