Alan Sisto

Alan Sisto is the host and co-founder of The Prancing Pony Podcast, helping listeners walk through the works of J.R.R. Tolkien since 2016. In the years since, he has also launched The Rings of Power Wrap-up (co-hosted with Sara Brown … Read More

Christopher T. Vaccaro, PhD

Christopher Vaccaro is a Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Vermont, where he teaches courses on Beowulf, Old English language and literature, surveys of early British Literature, and Tolkien. Christopher has published essays on early medieval English poetry … Read More

Irina Manea

Irina graduated from the University of Bucharest with a BA in Germanic Philology and European History, pursuing an MA in Ancient Studies (late antiquity) afterwards, although time would tell she was a medievalist at heart. Her PhD track in Nordic … Read More

Robbie Park

Robbie Park has been working in both higher education and adult education for several years now. She holds a Master of Arts in History and a Master of Education in Adult and Organizational Learning. As the Director of Commerce, Robbie … Read More

Brenton Dickieson, PhD

Brenton Dickieson (PhD, University of Chester) is a teacher, writer, and researcher from Prince Edward Island. Brenton teaches in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island and is a founding member of the Curiosity and Inquiry … Read More

Andrew Higgins, PhD

Dr. Andrew Higgins received a PhD in 2015 from Cardiff Metropolitan University. His PhD thesis ‘The Genesis of Tolkien’s Mythology’ explored the first major expression of Tolkien’s mythology The Book of Lost Tales materials, with a specific emphasis on the … Read More

Maximilian Hart

Maximilian Hart received an MA in Language and Literature at Signum University with a thesis Draconic Diction: Truth and Lies in Le Guin’s Old Speech. His academic work is currently focused on the language-based magic of C.S. Lewis and Ursula … Read More

Liam Daley, PhD

Liam earned his PhD in English at the University of Maryland, focusing on literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance – in particular, how the difference between “history” and “literature” changes from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and what … Read More

Pilar Barerra

Pilar loves languages and literature. She is interested in fairy tales, especially Andersen’s, Wilde’s, and Japanese traditional tales. She also enjoys Japanese children’s literature, Old English elegies, and Shakespeare. Pilar has a Certificate of Higher Education in English literature from … Read More

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