Robert Tally’s brief article “Sauron: Weirdly Sexy” appears in the Journal of Tolkien Research: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol18/iss2/1/. Also, Rob’s essay “Point-of-View as Cognitive Mapping: The Case of Mrs. Dalloway” has just been published in the American Book Review (available here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/921790); the same ABR issue features Rob’s review of Bruce Robbins’s Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction (here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/921801).
Bryce Jeter’s review of Joe Vallese, ed., It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror was recently published in Science Fiction Film and Television, Volume 17.1 (Spring 2024): 145–148. (Available here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/article/922166.)
Elliott Brandsma (English and Art ’13), who is working toward his PhD in Scandinavian Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship to fund his dissertation research in Sweden during the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship will support his tenure as a visiting researcher in the Department of Literature and the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) at Uppsala University. He is currently a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow and guest researcher in the Department of Aesthetics, Art History and Comparative Literature at Södertörns högskola in Huddinge, Sweden.
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