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Brad Patty

Meet Brad in his Signum Scene interview, Summer ’25. Works in the Collaboratory:

Sara Brown's windswept brown hair reminds us that she lives in the wilds of Wales. She's got very serious horn-rimmed glasses and a lovely scarf, the very picture of a serious professor except that she's fighting back a grin and a dozen sharp puns.

Sara Brown, PhD

Besides her BA (Hons) in English and History, Sara has an MSc in International History, Politics & Economics from the London School of Economics, for which she wrote a thesis on The Problem of the Gold Standard in International Politics … Read More

Robert Steed is a man of European ancestry dressed professionally in jacket and tie. He has wire glasses which look exactly as though he has had a book open since he was big enough to turn the pages. In fact, he looks a bit startled that we found him back here in some mysterious archives!

Robert Steed, PhD

Robert Steed holds a PhD in History of Asian Religions (Chinese Religions) from the University of Iowa Department of Religious Studies. He is Professor of Humanities, East Asian Cultures and Religions, at Hawkeye Community College and a lecturer in Asian … Read More

Dr. Amy H. Sturgis is smiling at us with open, friendly eyes and a broad grin. She is waiting in a room with wooden walls and a wooden staircase, making us think of curling up in a cabin at story time to listen to her read beside the fire.

Amy H. Sturgis, PhD.

Amy H. Sturgis earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from Vanderbilt University and specializes in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Gothic and Indigenous American Studies. She contributes the “Looking Back on Genre History” segment to the Hugo Award-winning StarShipSofa podcast. Dr. Sturgis is also the … Read More

Sparrow has surrounded herself with books, gel pens, and a murder board. It must be Monday because she's wearing grey — then again her hair is mostly grey now, so perhaps it's always Monday? She's got green eyes, European ancestry, and a collection of coffee mugs with broken handles which have been upcycled into pen cups.

L.F.S. Alden

Sparrow F. Alden is co-owner/builder of a straw bale cabin on Koasek Abenaki land in the New Hampshire woods. She explores ethics through rousing adventure stories and nature poetry.  She teaches as an adjunct senior lecturer of English at River … Read More

This active scholar looks ready to head outdoors. she's sporting a bright blue scarf, curly salt-and-pepper hair, and slightly cat's eye glasses. She appears to have European ancestory.

Mary Dockray-Miller, PhD.

Mary Dockray-Miller, Ph.D., is an American scholar of early medieval England and women’s educational history, best known for her work on gender in the pre-Conquest period. She has published on female saints, on Beowulf, and on religious women. After 25 years … Read More

Dr. Maggie Parke greets you from the green hills of Wales. She's got an outdoorswoman's tan, swept-back dark hair, and a cheerful apple-cheeked smile.

Maggie Parke, PhD

Maggie’s work focuses on the adaptation processes of event films and fan management. Her research includes working on film sets and in the gaming industry. She currently works in both higher education and the film industry, developing projects, editing scripts, … Read More

Joel has a broad smile and twinkling eyes above a salt-and-papper goatee. He is a man of apparently European ancestry wearing jacket, blue collared shirt and a stripey necktie tied in a half-Windsor.

Joel D. Ruark, PhD

Joel D. Ruark (Old Testament, Stellenbosch University) currently lives in Wheaton, IL. He specializes in the linguistics and semantics of Biblical Hebrew. He is also keenly interested in expressions of Christian spirituality and thought during the medieval period, especially the … Read More

Julian Barr's bespectacled smile reveals a dimple or two in his neatly-trimmed red-blond goatee. He wears a crisp blue shirt and grey jacket and stands partly turned toward his collection of books—young paperbacks and venerable old hardbacks—which are punctuated by a wee replica statue of Lupa suckling Romulus and Remus and a replica bronze helm which looks like the one on the cover of the Chickering Beowulf, but given Dr. Barr's interest in rem Romanorum, it might be Roman, so I'll have to ask him about that

Julian Barr, PhD

After completing his PhD in Classical Studies at the University of Queensland and Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Julian has published an academic monograph through Routledge, as well as several articles on classical mythology … Read More

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