Here are the individual presentations and papers that will be delivered at the Woode-walkers Symposium commemorating the 75th anniversary of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. For more information on the event, please see the Hobbit Symposium Tab at the top of this blog.
- 9:00 am—Roundtable: Teaching the Inklings in High School and College
Session Moderator: Matthew Miller, St. Louis University
Charles Hussung, St. Louis University High School: “Teaching Charles Williams in High School”
Paul D. Nygard, St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley: “Teaching Tolkien at St. Louis Community College”
Paul L. Fortunato, University of Houston- Downtown: “The Hobbit as Religious Literature: Teaching College Students about Bilbo’s Quest”
Justin T. Noetzel, St. Louis University: “The Bird and Baby Blog: Community and Collaboration while Studying the Inklings”
Matthew R. Bardowell, St. Louis University: “Of Scribblers and Inklings: Teaching Tolkien in a Writers Community”
- 10:45 am—Session I: The Hobbit and Tolkien’s Life and Scholarship
Session Moderator: Ashley Nolan, St. Louis University
Nora Alfaiz, George Washington University: “‘We Are Your Friends, Frodo’: Relationships and the Relation between Tolkien’s Life and Works”
Paul Acker, St. Louis University: “Tolkien, Old Norse and Philology: Dwarf Names in The Hobbit”
Anthony Cirilla, St. Louis University: “‘Not the Hobbit you once Were’: The Prosimetric Structure of Tolkien’s Hobbit”
Priya Sirohi, St. Louis University: “Tolkien and The Hobbit as Juvenile Literature”
- 1:15 pm—Session II: The Hobbit among Tolkien’s Greater Mythology
Session Moderator: Beth Kempton, St. Louis University
Chelsea A. McGuire, St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley: “Standing Tall beside Giants: The Hobbit as the Essential Introduction to Middle-earth”
Brian Kenna, Marquette University: “Labours and Sorrows: The Role of Memory in The Hobbit”
Amanda Cherian, St. Louis University: “The Aesthetics of Song and Map in The Hobbit”
Ruthie Angeli, St. Louis Community College-South County Center: “Separating Truths from Myths of Tolkien’s Female Characters”
- 3:00 pm—Session III: Myth and Mediation: Tolkien Films, Video Games, and Songs
Session Moderator: Thomas Rowland, St. Louis University
Trish Lambert, Mythgard Institute: “Snow White and Bilbo Baggins: Disney, Tolkien… and Jackson”
Paul D. Nygard, St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley: “The History of Middle-earth Network Radio”
Jasmine Tillotson, St. Louis University: “An Unexpected Story: Consequences of Japanese Influence on Sierra’s The Hobbit Video Game”
Paul Hahn, St. Louis Symphony and Chorus: “Singing in Elvish: Adapting Tolkien in Music and Song”
- 5:00pm—Plenary Address: “Annotating and Illustrating The Hobbit”
Douglas A. Anderson, Independent Scholar and editor of The Annotated Hobbit, Tales Before Tolkien, and other fantasy literature and Tolkien criticism.
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