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C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Colloquium at Taylor University, Indiana
I thought it was worth sharing, for thinkers and readers of C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, a combined conference of the C.S. Lewis & the Inklings Society with the 8th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium...
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How I Learned to Speak British, or A Review of David Downing’s “Looking for...
I find myself in the rather delicate position of critiquing the personal work of one with whom I’ve supped—ah, there it is, I’ve caught myself speaking in 1940s Oxford English again. It has been...
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C.S. Lewis Really Should Have Seen it Coming: More On the Dangers of Reading
Last year I wrote a post called, “Be Careful What You Read… C.S. Lewis’ Literary Encounter with George MacDonald.” It got a big readership, partly (I think) because it turns our expectations upside...
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“Into the Region of Awe” by David C. Downing: A Review
For some time I have suspected that David Downing was on to something here. Part of what I’m doing in researching C.S. Lewis is to see what is at the core of who he was as a Christian—not just what...
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A Depressing Book Announcement: Women and C.S. Lewis
It is with great sadness that I announce the release of Women and C.S. Lewis by Carolyn Curtis and Mary Pomroy Key. A clean, diverse, and full collection of papers by established and emerging scholars,...
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Announcement: The Wade Center Welcomes New Co-Directors Crystal and David C....
Well, this is a coup! Drs. Crystal and David Downing have been appointed as Co-Directors of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. As readers will know, the Wade is the premier North American...
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Panel on C.S. Lewis’“The Quest of Bleheris” at the C.S. Lewis and Friends...
I am currently working in the Marion E. Wade Center–the premier C.S. Lewis archival research space on the continent and a lovely little spot that houses materials by and about the British authors that...
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The Wade Center Welcomes New Co-Directors Crystal and David Downing (Feature...
As I announced before, Drs. Crystal and David Downing have been appointed as Co-Directors of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. The Wade is the premier North American deposit of archival and...
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A Place for “Till We Have Faces,” by David C. Downing, Wade Center Co-Director
For today’s Friday Feature I’d like to share the Wade Center blog for this month, highlighting a book that I really, really should write more about. Each time I reread Till We Have Faces it is richer...
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C.S. Lewis’“Dymer”… or is it Deemer? (or Can Someone from the Buffyverse be...
As I hinted last month, I have been reading and rereading C.S. Lewis’ Dymer. Lewis only kept a journal during his early Oxford years, 1922-1927. The diary’s posthumous title, All My Road Before Me, is...
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Adam Mattern on C.S. Lewis’ Science Fiction (Announcement)
Join us tomorrow, Thursday, March 14, at 6pm ET for a Thesis Theater with recent Signum University MA graduate Adam Mattern, who will present his thesis titled “An Image of the Discarded: C. S. Lewis’s...
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C.S. Lewis’ Science Fiction with Adam Mattern, David C. Downing, and Brenton...
Last week we had an amazing Thesis Theater event, a great discussion about C.S. Lewis’ WWII-era science fiction trilogy. Recent Signum University MA graduate Adam Mattern was the central figure,...
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A Ham of Note in the History of Literature (Throwback Thursday)
Last year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s–and throw it back out into...
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“The Places of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis” with Patti Callahan, plus a Wade...
I recently featured New York Times Bestselling author Patti Callahan’s novelized biography of Joy Davidman, Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis. I found it a...
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Crystal Downing, Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L....
I am pleased to share the video of the Book Launch for Crystal Downing’s new book, Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers. Famous detective club novelist, strident...
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Splendour in the Dark: C. S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work by Jerry Root...
Splendour in the Dark: C. S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work by Jerry Root My rating: 4 of 5 stars I keep finding myself drawn to C.S. Lewis’ strange and challenging long narrative poem, Dymer....
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Tolkien Studies Projects Sweep the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Shortlist in...
I just spent the weekend at Mythcon–a short, digital version of the normally weird and wonderful long weekend of scholarship and fan fun. Many of the parts of Mythcon that I love were still featured,...
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Good C.S. Lewis Studies Books That Did Not Win the Mythopoeic Award: Part 1:...
Last week I wrote that “Tolkien Studies Projects Sweep the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Shortlist in Inklings Studies“–a double-edged sword post that congratulated the authors of editors of five great...
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