Sørina Higgins
Chair of the Department of Language & Literature
Sørina Higgins is Chair of the Literature & Language Department at Signum University. She also serves as Thesis Coordinator and Host of the Signum Symposia.
Sørina Higgins is the Chair of the Department of Language and Literature at Signum University and a Ph.D. candidate, Teacher of Record, and Presidential Scholar at Baylor University. At Signum, she serves as Thesis Coordinator, Host of Signum Symposia, and Preceptor for courses on the Inklings. Her interests include British Modernism, the works of the Inklings, Arthuriana, magic, and performance theory. She holds an M.A. from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, where she wrote about Sehnsucht in the works of C. S. Lewis. She blogs about British poet Charles Williams at The Oddest Inkling. Sørina edited an academic essay collection on The Inklings and King Arthur (forthcoming from Apocryphile Press), wrote the introduction to a new edition of Charles Williams’s Taliessin through Logres (Apocryphile, 2016), and published an edition of The Chapel of the Thorn by Charles Williams (Apocryphile, 2014). As a creative writer, Sørina has published two books of poetry, The Significance of Swans (2007) and Caduceus (2012), and would be working on a novel or two if she weren’t, you know, in grad school.
Events
| ID | Event Name | Duration | Start Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 Roundtable: Game of Thrones | -2482 Weeks | July 25, 2017 | |
| June 2017 Symposium: Charles Williams | 1 Hours | June 15, 2017 | |
| Mythmoot IV: Invoking Wonder… | 3 Days | June 1, 2017 | |
| May 2017 Thesis Theater | 2 Weeks | May 18, 2017 | |
| March 2017 Thesis Theater | 10 Weeks | March 23, 2017 | |
| One Fantastic Rogue Beast – An Impromptu Star Wars/Harry Potter Chat | 2 Hours | January 6, 2017 | |
| Christmas Faculty Roundtable | 1 Hours | December 22, 2016 | |
| Faculty Chat: Dr. Karl Persson | 1 Hours | November 18, 2016 | |
| Thesis Chat with Kris Swank | 1 Hours | October 7, 2016 |
Courses
| ID | Course Name | Duration | Start Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITD 5304 | Beowulf Through Tolkien | 12 Weeks | January 15, 2018 |