Verlyn Flieger, Ph. D. is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park specializing in myth studies and comparative mythology. She teaches a sequence of graduate and undergraduate myth courses that offer Celtic, Arthurian, Hindu, Native American, and Norse myth. Flieger concentrates her research on modern fantasy with a special focus on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Professor Flieger is co-editor with Michael Drout and David Bratman of Tolkien Studies, a yearly journal devoted to scholarly examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Works in the Collaboratory:
- A Waiter Made of Glass
- Proscenium Street and Other Stories
- Ginger and Pesky
- Conversations with Verlyn Flieger is a work-in-progress documentary about Tolkien scholarship from Dr. Flieger’s perspective.