Christopher T. Vaccaro
Positions
- Senior Lecturer, University of Vermont
Pronouns: he, his
Christopher T. Vaccaro is Senior Lecturer of English language and literature at the University of Vermont. Since 1999, he has taught courses on Beowulf, Old English language and literature, Tolkien’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, and British literature surveys. He has an essay in Mallorn, a chapter in the forthcoming collection Beowulf and Tolkien, entries in the Tolkien Encyclopedia, has edited two thematic collections on Tolkien’s legendarium, and is currently working on essays exploring Tolkien’s relationship to Christian Neoplatonic thought and a book-length investigation into the intersections of love, friendship, loyalty, and death in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
On the web
Featured in
Tolkien Experience Podcast
№ 28: Chris Vaccaro
2 April 2021. Sara Brown
Contact for these current CfPs
2021-09-1: International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022: J.R.R. Tolkien and Medieval poets: A session in memory of Richard C. West
2021-09-1: International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022: Medieval Tolkien and the Nature of Middle-earth (A roundtable)
2022-01-15: Tolkien at Kalamazoo Symposium 2022: Missing mothers: CfP: Tolkien at Kalamazoo, 2022
Journals
- Editorial board member, Journal of Tolkien Research
- Editorial board member, Mythlore
Conferences
- Organizer, Tolkien at Kalamazoo Symposium
- Director, Tolkien in Vermont
- 1 April 2023. Facilitator, 2023: The Second Age, at Tolkien in Vermont
- 13 May 2022. Participant, № 360: Medieval Tolkien and the nature of Middle-earth: A roundtable, at ICMS 2022.
- 12 May 2022. organizer, № 275: J.R.R. Tolkien and Medieval poets: A session in memory of Richard C. West, at ICMS 2022.
- 7 May 2022. Organizer, 2022: Missing mothers, at Tolkien at Kalamazoo Symposium
- 2 April 2022. moderator, Session 3: Theorizing Tolkien, at Tolkien in Vermont 2022.
- 2 April 2022. moderator, Keynote, at Tolkien in Vermont 2022.
- 2 April 2022. moderator, Session 4: Undergraduate voices, at Tolkien in Vermont 2022.
- 2 April 2022. , 2022: The idea of history in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, at Tolkien in Vermont
- 2 April 2022. moderator, Session 1: Tolkien and narrativity, at Tolkien in Vermont 2022.
- 2 April 2022. moderator, Session 2, at Tolkien in Vermont 2022.
- 8 July 2021. Participant, Tolkien and diversity: A roundtable discussion, at International Medieval Congress (2021).
- 4 July 2021. Author, Pardoning Saruman? The queer in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021: Sunday session № 1
- 15 May 2021. organizer, № 402: Tolkien’s paratexts, appendices, annals, and marginalia: A roundtable, at 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies.
- 13 May 2021. organizer, № 266: Tolkien and Se Wyrm, at 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies.
- 11 May 2021. presider, № 145: Tolkien’s Chaucer, at 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies.
- 8 May 2021. Organizer, 2021: In memory of Richard C. West, at Tolkien at Kalamazoo Symposium
- 10 April 2021. moderator, Session 4: Plato and Aristotle and Boethius, at Tolkien in Vermont 2021.
- 10 April 2021. moderator, Session 5: Reading the stars and myths, at Tolkien in Vermont 2021.
- 10 April 2021. moderator, Session 1: Aeneas/Virgil and Ovid, at Tolkien in Vermont 2021.
- 10 April 2021. moderator, Session 6: Classical traditions, at Tolkien in Vermont 2021.
- 10 April 2021. moderator, Session 2: The Greeks, at Tolkien in Vermont 2021.
- 10 April 2021. Facilitator, 2021: Tolkien and the classics, at Tolkien in Vermont
- 10 April 2021. moderator, Session 3: UVM undergraduate and graduate voices, at Tolkien in Vermont 2021.
- 6 April 2019. Facilitator, Continental breakfast & welcome, at Tolkien in Vermont 2019.
- 6 April 2019. moderator, Session 3: UVM undergraduate voices, at Tolkien in Vermont 2019.
- 6 April 2019. moderator, Session 6: On the borders of horror, at Tolkien in Vermont 2019.
- 6 April 2019. Author, The anguish of longing: Homo-amory in Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien and Geoffrey Bache Smith’s A spring harvest. In Tolkien in Vermont 2019 session 2
- 6 April 2019. facilitator, Post-film discussion & readings, at Tolkien in Vermont 2019.
- 5 April 2019. moderator, Interview and Q&A with Yvette Kisor, at Tolkien in Vermont 2019.
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