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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio E.E. Cummings: A Pagan Modernist Alison Rosenblitt
Essays E.E. Cummings Alison Rosenblitt
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-pro…
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
Audio Series Two Episode Three: Fairies and Children Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-two-episode-three-fairies-and-children
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
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-transformatio…
Essays King Alfred the Great Francis Leneghan
Essays Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Daniele Nunziata
Essays Chinua Achebe Daniele Nunziata
Audio What Tolkien learnt from Beowulf: Representations of Evil Rafael J. Pascual https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/what-tolkien-learnt-beowulf-representations-evil
Essays Hand Signals from Beyond Julian Thompson
Audio Key Critical Concepts: Metaphor William Ghosh
Audio Key Critical Concepts: Authorship Emma Smith
Audio The Modern American Novel: An Introduction Tessa Roynon
Audio African American Literature: An Introduction Tessa Roynon
Audio Toni Morrison: An Introduction Tessa Roynon
Audio Hilary Mantel - Bart Van Es and Helen Small in Conversation about Third-Person Narrative in the Cromwell Trilogy Bart van Es, Helen Small
Video Sylvia Townsend Warner Carolyne Larrington https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/sylvia-townsend-warner
Essays How Short Can a Short Poem Be? Julian Thompson
Essays ‘Not Like Normal People’: Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Sally Rooney’s Normal People Julian Thompson
Essays This Old Man, That Old Man: Wordsworth Revises Wordsworth Julian Thompson
Audio Loathly Ladies Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/loathly-ladies
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
Audio Helpful Fairies Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Lucy Farrell, Ewan McPherson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/helpful-fairies
Audio Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/fairy-wives-and-fairy-lovers
Audio Introducing Fairies and Fairyland Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/introducing-fairies-and-fairyland
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
Audio Tolkien and Languages: Ancient and Invented Elizabeth Solopova, Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-languages-ancient-and-invented
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-fictio…
Audio J.R.R. Tolkien: Medievalist and Mythmaker Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/j-r-r-tolkien-medievalist-and-mythmaker
Audio J.R.R. Tolkien 'Beyond the Shoreless Sea' Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/j-r-r-tolkien-beyond-shoreless-sea
Audio Tolkien and Medieval Literature Elizabeth Solopova https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-and-medieval-literature
Audio Tolkien's Languages Elizabeth Solopova https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkiens-languages
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
Video Approaching Fantasy Literature Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/approaching-fantasy-literature
Video H. P. Lovecraft Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/h-p-lovecraft
Audio Alan Garner Felix Taylor https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/alan-garner
Audio Interview: Catherine Butler Catherine Butler, Will Brockbank https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/interview-catherine-butler
Video Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/re-enchanted-rise-childrens-fantasy-literature-twenti…
Video Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters Carolyne Larrington https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/why-game-thrones-matters
Video Diana Wynne Jones Gabriel Schenk https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/diana-wynne-jones
Video T. H. White Gabriel Schenk https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/t-h-white
Video Ursula K. Le Guin Caroline Batten https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ursula-k-le-guin
Essays Outdoor Gothic Julian Thompson
Essays The Chimes: Dickens’s New Year Carol Julian Thompson
Essays This is a place one can go mad in – Ivor Gurney, Asylum Poet Kate Kennedy https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/
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…
Essays Is there any truth in biographical fictions? Katherine Collins https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/
Audio America’s War Culture since 9/11 Patrick Deer, Christine Strandmose Toft https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/americas-war-culture-911