Event Category: Thesis Theater
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Thesis Theater: Kira Tregoning, “More Complicated Than They Seem: The Semantic and Narrative Meaning in Homeric Epithets”
Join us on October 6 at 2pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores the meaning of Homer’s epithets!
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Thesis Theater: Gina Petrone, “‘Let Me In!’ Vampirism in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”
Join us on August 1 at 6pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights!
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Thesis Theater: Patrick Lyon, “Merry Old Englyn: The Familiar and the Strange in The Old English Rhyming Poem”
Join us on July 30 at 3pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores Old English literature!
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Thesis Theater: Christoph Schabert, “Mágus saga jarls: A Digital Edition”
Join us on July 29 at 2pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores Old Norse-Icelandic literature!
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Thesis Theater: Jennifer Ewing, “The Promises to the Overcomer: The Gifts and Rewards Given to the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings”
Join us on April 3rd at 9pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores the gifts and rewards in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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Thesis Theater: Nadia Schafer, “One Strange (s)Elf: Deep Ecology, Decolonization, and the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf”
Join us on September 5th at 7pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore issues that concern us today, and were ahead of their time in Tolkien’s writings.
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Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, “The Logos of Faith: Sub-creation through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium”
Join us on June 1st at 12pm (noon) ET for a Thesis Theater to explore J.R.R. Tolkien’s powerful concept of Sub-Creation and further ways to understand and perhaps, once explored, make use of it.
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Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, “The Sword Not for its Sharpness: Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien’s Epic of War”
Join us on May 26th at 3pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore the relevant description and surprising complexity of war in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings; a timely topic.
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Thesis Theater: Emily Austin, “The Road Gives Ever On: Following the Road Motif in The Lord of the Rings.”
Join us on May 21st at 11am ET for a Thesis Theater to explore the theme of the journey in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and perhaps maybe, our own.
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Thesis Theater: Taylor Johnson Guinan, “Only in Dying Life: Ventures into the Land of the Dead in Children’s Fantasy Literature”
Join us on May 7th at 12pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore this journey into Children’s Fantasy.