Dr Dimitra Fimi Curriculum Vitae September 2018 School of Critical Studies University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. English Literature, Cardiff University, 2005 M.A. Early Celtic Studies, Cardiff University, 2002 B.A. English Language and Literature, University of Athens, 2000 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2018-currently Lecturer in Fantasy and Children’s Literature, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow 2016-2018 Senior Lecturer in English, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University 2009-2016 Lecturer in English, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University 2009-2010 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Open University, Associate Lecturer 2004-2009 Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University, Associate Lecturer PUBLICATIONS Books 2017 Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016 Tolkien, J.R.R. A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins. London: HarperCollins. 2008 Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Referred Journal Articles 2018 ‘Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and Early 20th-Century Radical Linguistic Experimentation’, Journal of Tolkien Research, 5(1), pp. 1-28. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol5/iss1/2/ (Open Access) 2012 ‘Between Greece and Europe: The Fairy Tales of Penelope Delta’, Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern, 2 (1), pp. 97-112. 2007 ‘Tolkien’s “‘Celtic’ type of legends”: Merging Traditions’, Tolkien Studies, 4, pp. 51-71. 2006 ‘“Mad Elves” and “Elusive Beauty”: Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien’s Mythology’, Folklore, 117 (2), pp. 156-170. 2005 ‘“Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay”: Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien’, Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama, 2, pp. 10-26. Book Chapters 2017 ‘Tolkien’s Arda’, in Wolf, M. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds. New York: Routledge, pp. 377-84. 2017 Fimi, D. and Higgins, A. ‘Invented Languages’, in Wolf, M. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds. New York: Routledge, pp. 21-9. 2016 ‘The Past as an Imaginary World: The Case of Medievalism’, in Wolf, M. (ed.) Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: A Subcreation Studies Anthology. New York: Routledge, pp. 46-66. 2015 ‘Teaching Race and Cultures in Tolkien's Works’, in Donovan, L.A. (ed.), Approaches to Teaching J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works. New York: MLA, pp. 144-9. 2014 ‘Later Fantasy Fiction’, in Lee, S. (ed.) A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 335-49. 2013 ‘“Wildman of the Woods”: Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle- earth in The Children of Húrin’, in Conrad-O’Brien, H. and Hynes, G. (eds), Tolkien: The Forest and the City. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 43-56. 2012 ‘Tolkien and the Fantasy Tradition’, in Whitehead, C. (ed.) Critical Insights: The Fantastic. CA: Salem Press, pp. 40-60. 2011 ‘Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings’, in Bogstad, J.M. and Kaveny, P. E. (eds), Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 84-101. 2007 ‘Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture’, in Clark, D. and Phelpstead, C. (eds), Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, pp. 83-99. Conference Proceedings 2017 ‘“Tears are the very wine of blessedness”: joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings’, in Helen, Daniel (ed.), Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016. Edinburgh: Luna Press Publishing. 2011 Cox, K., Fimi, D., Jordan, S. and North, K. ‘Literary Walks: Exploring Cardiff Bay (UK) through E-Learning’. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Education & e-Learning. N.p.: Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF), pp. 171-176. 2008 ‘Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth: Tolkien and Archaeology’, in Wells, Sarah (ed.), The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference: 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings. Coventry: The Tolkien Society, pp. 339-344. Encyclopedia Entries 2008 ‘Unfinished Tales’, ‘The Little White Bird’, ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’, ‘Peter and Wendy’, and ‘Ursula Le Guin: Biographical Profile’, in Clark, Robert (ed.) The Literary Encyclopedia. Available at: http://www.litencyc.com 2006 ‘Victorian Fairyology’ and ‘Greece: Reception of Tolkien’, in Drout, M. (ed.), The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, pp. 186-7 and 257-8. Book Reviews (Selected) 2017 Review of The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger. Tolkien Studies, 14, pp. 184-191. 2016 Review of The Story of Kullervo, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger. Journal of Tolkien Research, 3:1. Available at: http://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol3/iss1/4/ 2015 Review of Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children's Books, edited by by Carolyne Larrington and Diane Purkiss. Folklore, 126 (2), pp. 241-242. 2014 Review of The Fall of Arthur, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Gramarye: The Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, Winter 2014, Issue 6, pp. 80-2. 2012 Review of Beatrix Potter: Fables to Faeries, edited by Rowena Godfrey. Folklore, 123 (1), pp. 113-14. 2012 Review of The Myth of Persephone in Girls’ Fantasy Literature, by Virginia Holly. Times Higher Education, 5 January. 2010 Review of Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought, edited by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard. Folklore, 121 (2), pp. 236-238. 2009 Review of Concepts of Arthur, by Thomas Green. Speculum: A Journal Medieval Studies, 84 (3), pp. 722-723. 2008 Review of Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity, by Alaric Hall. Folklore, 119 (3), pp. 349-51. 2008 Review of Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans. Folklore, 119 (3), pp. 351-2. 2008 Review of Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien, by Ross Smith. Tolkien Studies, 5, pp. 229-33. 2006 Review of Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth, by Marjorie Burns, Tolkien Studies, 3, pp. 187-190. Other Publications 2018 ‘Ursula K Le Guin’s strong female voice challenged the norms of a male- dominated genre’, The Conversation, 24 January. Available at: https://theconversation.com/ursula-k-le-guins-strong-female-voice-challenged- the-norms-of-a-male-dominated-genre-90636 2017 ‘J.R.R. Tolkien’s Christmas letters to his children bring echoes of Middle- earth to the North Pole’, The Conversation, 21 December. Available at: https://theconversation.com/j-r-r-tolkiens-christmas-letters-to-his-children- bring-echoes-of-middle-earth-to-the-north-pole-89464 2017 ‘Why build new worlds’, Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Online, 19 September. Available at: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/fantasy- worlds-invention-restraint/ 2017 ‘Alan Garner’s The Owl Service at fifty’, Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Online, 21 August. Available at: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/alan- garner-owl-service-fifty/ 2017 ‘The “Ancient Celtic Year” in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy’, Gramarye: The Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, 11, pp. 51-53. 2017 ‘Inventing a Whole Language’, Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Online, 17 March. Available at: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/how-to-invent-a- language-tolkien-burgess/ 2016 ‘How to invent a Tolkien-style language’, The Conversation, 7 April. Available at: https://theconversation.com/how-to-invent-a-tolkien-style- language-57380 2015 ‘After 150 years, we still haven’t solved the puzzle of Alice in Wonderland’, The Conversation, 3 July. Available at: https://theconversation.com/after-150- years-we-still-havent-solved-the-puzzle-of-alice-in-wonderland-44049 2014 ‘Tolkien and Folklore: Sellic Spell and The Lay of Beowulf’, Mallorn, 55 (Winter 2014), pp. 27-8. 2014 ‘Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree to hit the screen in latest bid to aim fantasy at grown-ups’, The Conversation, 28 October. Available at: http://theconversation.com/enid-blytons-the-faraway-tree-to-hit-the-screen-in- latest-bid-to-aim-fantasy-at-grown-ups-33347 2011 ‘Join the Great Chain of Reading and be Inspired’, The Western Mail, 3 March. Available at: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/join- great-chain-reading-inspired-1843727 AWARDS 2017 Runner-up for Katharine Briggs Folklore Award for: Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017 Tolkien Society Award 2017 for Best Book for: Tolkien, J.R.R. A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins. London: HarperCollins. 2010 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies 2010 for Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ESTEEM INDICATORS 2017 Judge for the Wales Book of the Year Award 2017 (English language entries) 2017 Alumna of the Welsh Crucible 2017 Programme (http://www.welshcrucible.org.uk/) FELLOWSHIPS 2012 Student-led Teaching Fellowship, Most Inspiring Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University 2011 Fellow, Higher Education Academy GRANTS AND RESEARCH FUNDING 2017 Welsh Crucible 2017 Grant Scheme (£9,862) for interdisciplinary research project titled: “Year of the Sea: assessing changes in marine ecosystems through literature, arts and law”. Co-investigators: Dr Ruth Callaway (Swansea University), Dr Amanda Rogers (Swansea University), Kerry Lewis (Aberystwyth University), Dr Sarah Pogoda (Bangor University).