Featured Archivist: Phillip Fitzsimmons, University Archivist And Special Collections Librarian, Southwestern Oklahoma State University,
2026
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Featured Archivist: Phillip Fitzsimmons, University Archivist And Special Collections Librarian, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Scene Savers, Phillip Fitzsimmons
Faculty Articles & Research
"In 2007, as a newly minted librarian fresh from completing his Master of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma, taking every archiving class that was available at the time, Phillip was given a straightforward assignment: scan or photograph everything in a conference room and make it available online."
Shakespeare Adapts,
2026
Western Michigan University
Shakespeare Adapts, Grace C. Tiffany
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Shakespeare’S Troilus And Cressida And The Genre Of Comical Satire,
2026
Oberlin College
Shakespeare’S Troilus And Cressida And The Genre Of Comical Satire, Robert B. Pierce
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
“Shall I Always Keep Below Stairs?”: The Waiting-Gentlewoman On The Margin Of Much Ado About Nothing,
2026
Saginaw Valley State University
“Shall I Always Keep Below Stairs?”: The Waiting-Gentlewoman On The Margin Of Much Ado About Nothing, Daniel F. Gates
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
A Mouth Too Full: Domination, Consumption, Kitchens And Witches In Macbeth,
2026
The University of Akron
A Mouth Too Full: Domination, Consumption, Kitchens And Witches In Macbeth, Bethany Decker
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
Introduction,
2026
Heidelberg University
Introduction, Emily Isaacson
Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
No abstract provided.
The Fragmentation Of Helcar: A Paratethyan Model For Rhûn, Núrnen And The Dead Marshes,
2026
independent researcher
The Fragmentation Of Helcar: A Paratethyan Model For Rhûn, Núrnen And The Dead Marshes, Federico Manzoni
Journal of Tolkien Research
This work proposes a conjectural paleogeographic model linking the Sea of Rhûn, Núrnen and the Dead Marshes to the former Sea of Helcar. Beginning from Christopher Tolkien's suggestion that Rhûn may represent Helcar ``vastly shrunken,'' the study combines textual evidence, the Ambarkanta, Fonstad's cartographic reconstructions, and terrestrial analogues drawn from the evolution of the Paratethys, the Messinian Salinity Crisis and other endorheic basins. Helcar is interpreted not merely as an isolated body of deep water but as the centre of a broader hydrological province subsequently partitioned by relief change, sedimentary infilling, basin isolation and drainage reorganization. Within this model, Rhûn …
Progress, Poetry, And Peace: Romantic Ideals And The Present Day,
2026
Liberty University
Progress, Poetry, And Peace: Romantic Ideals And The Present Day, Kristen Dawn Morgan Hess
Masters Theses
In the busy, technologized, and mechanized life that most people live today, it can be difficult to find true rest, comfort, and peace because the very technology and machinery that is marketed as providing these 21st-century amenities often fall short in their delivery. Taking a look backward at the Romantic era ideals presented in the poetry of William Wordsworth can offer people today the chance to gradually improve their mental, physical, and emotional health by slowing down, minimalizing, and moderating their lifestyles. This thesis talks about the historical background of three of Wordsworth’s poems— “Lines Written in Early Spring,” “The …
How The African American Contribution To Early American Literature Aided In Shaping The American Literary Identity,
2026
Liberty University
How The African American Contribution To Early American Literature Aided In Shaping The American Literary Identity, Jennifer E. Thompson
Masters Theses
This study argues that Jupiter Hammon’s early African American literature actively helped shape American literary identity rather than just mirroring it. By blending Christian morality with human rights, Hammon challenged Eurocentric narratives, validated Black humanity, and established a foundational tradition for anti-slavery writing. Traditional theories often contest this national inclusion through critical viewpoints. These views treat slavery as a distinct model, arguing that these texts represent separate responses to bondage rather than unified contributions to a shared national canon. This research redefines the American literary canon by showing how Hammon's historic publications dismantled eighteenth-century racist ideals about intellectual capacity. His …
Moral Ecology In Shakespeare's Tragedies: Nature, Animals, And Conscience As Ethical Agents In Hamlet, Macbeth, And King Lear,
2026
Quepara J. C. Sen A & I Institution
Moral Ecology In Shakespeare's Tragedies: Nature, Animals, And Conscience As Ethical Agents In Hamlet, Macbeth, And King Lear, Md. Abu Bakkar
Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts
Shakespeare's tragedies repeatedly dramatize a universe in which moral transgression produces consequences that extend beyond individual psychology to affect society, nature, and the non-human world. This study examines how Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear construct a system of moral ecology, understood as a framework of ethical causality in which human actions generate interconnected consequences across psychological, social, and natural orders. Using qualitative close reading informed by moral criticism, ecocriticism, animal studies, and early modern cosmology, the study analyzes selected passages representing natural disturbance, animal imagery, and conscience as forms of ethical response. The findings show that the three …
Finding The Numinous: An Ecocritical Look At “Dune” And “The Lord Of The Rings” (2025), By Willow Wilson Dipasquale,
2026
Valparaiso University
Finding The Numinous: An Ecocritical Look At “Dune” And “The Lord Of The Rings” (2025), By Willow Wilson Dipasquale, Douglas Charles Kane
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by Douglas Charles Kane, of Finding the Numinous: An Ecocritical Look at “Dune” and “The Lord of the Rings” (2025), by Willow Wilson DiPasquale
Miscellaneous,
2026
George Fox University
Miscellaneous, Bruce R. Johnson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
No abstract provided.
The Tragicomedy Of C. S. Lewis The Bald: Reflections On An Unpublished Play,
2026
George Fox University
The Tragicomedy Of C. S. Lewis The Bald: Reflections On An Unpublished Play, Jahdiel Perez
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"Within the pages of a Vice-President’s Register (1920–1984), held in the Old Library archives of his Oxford College, Lewis handwrote, in mock Shakespearean English, 'The Tragicomicall Briefe Reigne of Lewis the Bald.' As far as we know, this is the only complete play in his corpus. Mostly unpublished until the recent release of C. S. Lewis’s Oxford (2024) by Simon Horobin, this piece has yet to receive the scholarly attention it deserves. In what follows, I seek to address this gap through a close analysis of portions of the text and its broader implications for Lewis’s approach to writing."
A Moving Image Of Eternity: Exploring C. S. Lewis's Philosophy Of Time,
2026
George Fox University
A Moving Image Of Eternity: Exploring C. S. Lewis's Philosophy Of Time, Brian C. Roden
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"The “Time Graph,” as it will be labeled in this essay, is obscurely nestled in C. S. Lewis’s personal manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Comprised of mathematical sketches and cryptic commentary, the document has apparently escaped formal study regarding why Lewis produced it or how it might relate to his published works. More broadly, does it have any bearing on a coherent philosophy of time that Lewis may have held? The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that the Time Graph is very likely an early draft of the mechanics of time travel …
Tracing Sehnsucht: Longing For The "Hidden Country",
2026
George Fox University
Tracing Sehnsucht: Longing For The "Hidden Country", Charlie Reeder
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"This thesis will argue that Lewis employs a consistent set of literary themes and biblical echoes to articulate longing throughout his career, and that his early non-Christian, and often anti-Christian, poetry, such as Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics (1919) and Dymer (1926), plays a formative role in shaping his later depictions of Sehnsucht. Although his theological commitments and vocabulary evolve significantly after his conversion, an engagement with a predominantly Judeo-Christian literary inheritance is apparent from the outset. A central focus here will be Lewis’s use of place. In his early poetry, recurring biblical resonances, conceptual images, and spatial …
The Mythos Of Gender In Till We Have Faces,
2026
George Fox University
The Mythos Of Gender In Till We Have Faces, Annie Crawford
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"In Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis draws from the mythic imagery of Cupid and Psyche to offer a potent meditation on the symbolism of gender. Through the recurring imagery of mountain, temple, and womb, Lewis reinterprets classical archetypes within a Christian imagination to reveal gender not as a social construct or biological accident but as a spiritual polarity woven into the fabric of creation. In this symbolic cosmos, mas- culinity and femininity signify the dynamic interplay of divine initiative and creaturely receptivity—the eternal rhythm of giving and receiving that structures both nature and grace. Read in this light, …
C. S. Lewis, The Expert Communicator,
2026
George Fox University
C. S. Lewis, The Expert Communicator, Steven A. Beebe
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"What evidence supports the claim that Lewis is an expert communicator? He remains a popular author, one of the most read authors of all time. He was a professional communicator; he earned his living communicating: teaching, writing, and speaking. And, as this essay has documented, he was a professor of communication. He made insightful observations about the role, nature, and function of communication throughout the corpus of his work. Although his planned book with J. R. R. Tolkien, “Language and Human Nature,” was never published, his initial ideas found in the draft of the partial opening chapter, coupled with a …
Screwtape In Wartime,
2026
George Fox University
Screwtape In Wartime, Joe Ricke
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"This essay looks closely at the connections between Lewis’s wartime message to his listeners in his now famous, but then unlikely, sermon, “Learning in Wartime,” on 22 October 1939 and his wartime novel, The Screwtape Letters. It will range widely from biography to history to literary influences and to close reading of the texts to help reflect on its place not only in Lewis’s oeuvre but in his life and the lives of all those who, then and now, attend to the distinction between what Lewis (and, surprisingly, Screwtape) makes between the local wars of time and space and the …
Signifying Nothing? Narnia, Inanity, And A. L. Rowse,
2026
University of Oxford
Signifying Nothing? Narnia, Inanity, And A. L. Rowse, Michael Ward
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"This essay explores the origins of the word Narnia, the name that Lewis gave to the fictional kingdom in which his seven Chronicles of Narnia are mostly set. How did he come by it? What, if anything, does the word mean?...I will be pursuing two lines of enquiry and two sets of intriguing connections that strike me as potentially illuminating. What follows is more of a theory for consideration than a hard-and-fast conclusion for acceptance. But though I write with a degree of tentativeness, I hope, nonetheless, to shed some light upon Lewis’s statements about his naming
of Narnia and …
"Expressing The Great Myths": Hugo Dyson And Shakespeare In C. S. Lewis's Conversion Narrative,
2026
George Fox University
"Expressing The Great Myths": Hugo Dyson And Shakespeare In C. S. Lewis's Conversion Narrative, Sarah R. A. Waters
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
"The conversations that took place on the night of 19 September 1931 in Addison’s Walk might, as David Downing has put it, “be considered the defining moment in Jack’s life.” And Lewis’s letters to Greeves are recognized to be a key source in this narrative, with Alister McGrath noting, for instance that these letters “explain the events of the night and their significance for his reflections on religious faith.” Often ignored in accounts of these conversations, however, is the importance of Dyson in the story, and often ignored in these letters are Lewis’s reflections on his current reading matter, including …
