Denae Dyck’s review of W. M. Jacob’s Religious Vitality in Victorian London (Oxford University Press, 2021) appears in the latest issue of Victorian Studies.

Katie Kapurch gave a virtual presentation at St. Mary’s University in London in July. The event was dedicated to a collection that Katie co-edited, The Beatles and Humour (Bloomsbury, 2023). Katie’s talk focused on the Beatles’ televised performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1964.

In June, Leah Schwebel presented “Translating Roman Triumphs in the Middle Ages” at The Medieval Translator: The XIII Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Ben Reed’s essay “A Vicarious Incantation: The Love-Letter Mixtape” appears in the Cream City Review 48.1 (Spring/Summer 2024): https://uwm.edu/creamcityreview/issues/.

Robert Tally’s essay “‘You cannot press the One Ring too hard’: Tolkien, Ethics, and the Ambiguities of Magic,” appears in Магія у літературі фентезі: Дефініції, маніфестації, функції. [Magic in Fantasy Literature: Definitions, Manifestations, Functions], eds. Tetiana Riazantseva and Yevheniia Kanchura, published by the Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Science of Ukraine.

Also, on July 6, 2024, Rob remotely presented a talk, “‘Fiery the Angels rose’: The Romantic Prometheanism of Tolkien’s Enemies,” at Tolkien’s Romantic Resonances, the Tolkien Society’s 2024 Seminar, in Leeds, UK.

English alum Luke Quinton (’07) is the writer and host of a recently released podcast series, Come By Chance, produced by CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and Novel (UK): https://link.chtbl.com/UIhy6pXD.

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