Sørina Higgins

At Signum, Sørina Higgins serves a preceptor for courses on the Inklings, a preceptor in the Path and SPACE programs, coordinator of Writer’s Forge, and TexMoot Team Lead. She was the Chair of the Language & Literature Department from 2015–2019.

Sørina Higgins earned her Ph.D. in 2021 at Baylor University in Waco, TX,
where she was a Presidential Scholar, Teacher of Record, and Graduate Writing
Consultant. Her dissertation, entitled From Thaumaturgy to Dramaturgy: Staging
Occult Modernism, examined the role of ceremonial magic in modernist theatre,
especially in the works of W. B. Yeats, Charles Williams, and Aleister Crowley. Prior to her PhD, Sørina earned an M.A. from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English.

Dr. Higgins is currently co-editing a volume on the ethical turn in speculative fiction with Dr. Brenton Dickieson and previously edited an academic essay collection entitled The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain (Apocryphile Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 Mythopoeic Society Inklings Scholarship Award. She wrote the introduction to a new edition of Charles Williams’s   Taliessin Through Logres  (Apocryphile, 2016) and edited and introduced Williams’s early play The Chapel of the Thorn (Apocryphile, 2014). She is also the author of the blog The Oddest Inkling, devoted to a systematic study of Charles Williams’ works.

As a creative writer, Sørina has published two books of poetry, Caduceus (David
Robert Books, 2012) & The Significance of Swans (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Her scholarship appears or is forthcoming in International Yeats Studies, The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center, The Journal of Inklings Studies, Mythlore, and Penumbra.

Outside of academia, Sørina enjoys practicing yoga, playing with her cats, cooking, baking, gardening, dancing, and ranting about the state of the world. You can visit her website at sørinahiggins.com