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Format Title Author/Contributor Source Date Published
Other Shakespeare & the plague Emma Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=082EH-78iEU 14 Dec 2020
Audio E.E. Cummings: A Pagan Modernist Alison Rosenblitt 29 Oct 2020
Essay E.E. Cummings Alison Rosenblitt 29 Oct 2020
Audio Series Two Episode One: Introducing the Modern Fairies Project Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-one-introducing-modern-fairies-project 09 Oct 2020
Audio Series Two Episode Two: Fairy Time and Space Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-two-fairy-time-and-space 09 Oct 2020
Audio Series Two Episode Three: Fairies and Children Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-three-fairies-and-children 09 Oct 2020
Audio Series Two Episode Four: Fairies and the Environment Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-four-fairies-and-environment 09 Oct 2020
Audio Series Two Episode Five: Fairy and Other Transformations Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-five-fairy-and-other-transformations 09 Oct 2020
Essay King Alfred the Great Francis Leneghan 18 Sep 2020
Essay Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Daniele Nunziata 11 Aug 2020
Essay Chinua Achebe Daniele Nunziata 11 Aug 2020
Audio What Tolkien learnt from Beowulf: Representations of Evil Rafael J. Pascual http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/what-tolkien-learnt-beowulf-representations-evil 03 Aug 2020
Essay Hand Signals from Beyond Julian Thompson 05 Jun 2020
Audio Key Critical Concepts: Metaphor William Ghosh 05 Jun 2020
Audio Key Critical Concepts: Authorship Emma Smith 05 Jun 2020
Audio The Modern American Novel: An Introduction Tessa Roynon 05 Jun 2020
Audio African American Literature: An Introduction Tessa Roynon 05 Jun 2020
Audio Toni Morrison: An Introduction Tessa Roynon 05 Jun 2020
Audio Hilary Mantel - Bart Van Es and Helen Small in Conversation about Third-Person Narrative in the Cromwell Trilogy Helen Small, Bart van Es 05 Jun 2020
Video Sylvia Townsend Warner Carolyne Larrington http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/sylvia-townsend-warner 05 Jun 2020
Essay How Short Can a Short Poem Be? Julian Thompson 02 Jun 2020
Essay ‘Not Like Normal People’: Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Sally Rooney’s Normal People Julian Thompson 02 Jun 2020
Essay This Old Man, That Old Man: Wordsworth Revises Wordsworth Julian Thompson 02 Jun 2020
Audio Loathly Ladies Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/loathly-ladies 21 May 2020
Audio Fairies, Children and Changelings Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Marry Waterson, Ben Nicholls, Barney Morse-Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/fairies-children-and-changelings 21 May 2020
Audio Helpful Fairies Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Lucy Farrell, Ewan McPherson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/helpful-fairies 21 May 2020
Audio Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/fairy-wives-and-fairy-lovers 21 May 2020
Audio Introducing Fairies and Fairyland Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/introducing-fairies-and-fairyland 21 May 2020
Audio Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary: 'The Ring of Words' Stuart Lee, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-oxford-english-dictionary-ring-words 21 May 2020
Audio Tolkien and Languages: Ancient and Invented Elizabeth Solopova, Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-languages-ancient-and-invented 21 May 2020
Audio Talking Tolkien: The influences of Medieval Literature on the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien Stuart Lee, Elizabeth Solopova https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/talking-tolkien-influences-medieval-literature-fiction-j-r-r-tolkien 21 May 2020
Audio J.R.R. Tolkien: Medievalist and Mythmaker Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/j-r-r-tolkien-medievalist-and-mythmaker 21 May 2020
Audio J.R.R. Tolkien 'Beyond the Shoreless Sea' Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/j-r-r-tolkien-beyond-shoreless-sea 21 May 2020
Audio Tolkien and Medieval Literature Elizabeth Solopova https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-medieval-literature 21 May 2020
Audio Tolkien's Languages Elizabeth Solopova https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkiens-languages 21 May 2020
Audio The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy Elleke Boehmer, Stuart Lee, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi, Andy Orchard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/lord-rings-tolkiens-legacy-0 21 May 2020
Video Approaching Fantasy Literature Stuart Lee http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/approaching-fantasy-literature 21 May 2020
Video H. P. Lovecraft Stuart Lee http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/h-p-lovecraft 21 May 2020
Audio Alan Garner Felix Taylor http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/alan-garner 21 May 2020
Audio Interview: Catherine Butler Catherine Butler, Will Brockbank http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/interview-catherine-butler 21 May 2020
Video Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/re-enchanted-rise-childrens-fantasy-literature-twentieth-century 21 May 2020
Video Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters Carolyne Larrington http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/why-game-thrones-matters 21 May 2020
Video Diana Wynne Jones Gabriel Schenk http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/diana-wynne-jones 21 May 2020
Video T. H. White Gabriel Schenk http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/t-h-white 21 May 2020
Video Ursula K. Le Guin Caroline Batten http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ursula-k-le-guin 21 May 2020
Essay Outdoor Gothic Julian Thompson 14 May 2020
Essay The Chimes: Dickens’s New Year Carol Julian Thompson 14 May 2020
Essay This is a place one can go mad in – Ivor Gurney, Asylum Poet Kate Kennedy https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/ 12 May 2020
Video Significant Lives: Biography, autobiography, and women's history in South Asia Supriya Chaudhuri https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/article/supriya-chaudhuri-significant-lives-biography-autobiography-gender-and-womens-history-in-sou 12 May 2020
Essay Is there any truth in biographical fictions? Katherine Collins https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/ 12 May 2020

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