Departments: Strategy Council
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Sharon Hoff
Sharon serves as Signum’s Doorward, a rather rarified and yet suitably Tolkienian title for our general factotum. As the first point of contact for Signum, she helps direct traffic and does her best to get things done behind the scenes. You can expect a willing and helpful reply when you contact her. As part of…
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Malcolm Harden
Malcolm spent most of his career in university administration at London Metropolitan University in the UK where he originally took his degree in English Literature. He served in a variety of roles, finishing as Management Information Officer in the university’s Planning Office, providing statistical data and information to a diverse range of internal and external…
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Keli Fancher
Keli Fancher is a software developer at RescueTime, Signum’s Dean of Digital Campus, and an amateur YouTuber. Keli’s relationship with Signum began with the original Tolkien Professor podcast feed which led to him joining Signum as an MA student for its second semester several years later. Shortly thereafter Keli began aiding Signum as a class…
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Faith Acker
Faith Acker first joined Signum in 2011, serving as a preceptor for the inaugural course “The Great Tales: Tolkien and the Epic.” She has precepted for several additional Tolkien courses as well as Latin I and II, and is co-lecturer for “Shakespeare and the Middle Ages” and sole designer of “The Life and Times of…
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Corey Olsen
Dr. Corey Olsen is the President of Signum University and Mythgard Institute. In addition to teaching classes on J.R.R. Tolkien, Chaucer, and modern fantasy literature for Signum, Dr. Olsen has extended the concept of the digital classroom to include non-traditional outlets. Through the Mythgard Academy, he offers free weekly lectures on works of speculative fiction…