1st Online Midwinter Seminar ❧ Monica Sanz Host: ❧ ❧ William Thompson, Associate Professor of English, MacEwan University ❧ ❧ ❧ ❧ Kristine Larsen, Professor, Geological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University ❧ Sara Brown, Chair of Faculty, Signum University ❧ ❧ Tom Ue; and James Munday ❧ ❧Saturday
5 February 2022 13:00 utc — view in local time
Papers
№ 1: Like father, like son? Representations of the origins of Merlin in modern fantasy fiction
№ 2: Tolkien as a folk horror author
№ 3: The overlooked vampire: Might MacDonald’s Lilith be repopularized?
№ 5: The story, the narrator, and the reader: Mediated horror in C.S. Lewis’s Narniad
№ 6: Charles Williams’s P’o-L’u: The Cthulhu connection
№ 7: “Shivering trees”: Horror and monstrosity in selected stories from Tolkien’s The Silmarillion
№ 8: “Delight in horror”: Charles Williams and Russell Kirk on hell and the supernatural
№ 10: Coffin births, eclipse babies, and test-tube wombs: Unnatural birth in the world of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series
№ 11: Monstrous feminine, deviant mother: Tolkien’s Shelob and the grotesque maternal
№ 12: Environmental horror and restoration: Tolkien and today
№ 13: Tolkien, Cline, and the quest for a Silmaril
№ 14: Nature and horror in Tolkien’s legendarium