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Dr. '''Dimitra Fimi''' is Associate Lecturer of English at [[wikipedia:Cardiff University|Cardiff University]]. She teaches and researches on many fantasy authors.
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==Bibliography==
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'''Dimitra Fimi''' (born [[2 June]] [[1978]]) is Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the [[wikipedia:University of Glasgow|University of Glasgow]]. She teaches and researches on many fantasy authors. She is also co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow. Fimi is currently on the [[Mallorn (journal)| Mallorn]] editorial team.<ref> [https://journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/about/editorialTeam ''Editorial Team''] at journals.tolkiensociety.org (accessed 18 June 2023)</ref>
==Bibliography, selected==
===Books===
===Books===
* [[2008]]: ''[[Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits]]''
* [[2008]]: ''[[Tolkien, Race and Cultural History|Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits]]''
* [[2016]]: ''[[A Secret Vice (book)|A Secret Vice]]'' (co-editor with Andrew Higgins)
* [[2019]]: ''[[Sub-creating Arda]]'' (co-editor with [[Thomas M. Honegger]])
* [[2021]]: ''Επιδράσεις της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Γραμματείας στο Έργο του Τζ.Ρ.Ρ. Τόλκιν = Echoes of Ancient Greek Literature in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien'' (co-editor with Dimitrios Kolovos)
 
===Articles===
===Articles===
* [[2006]]: ''Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama''
* [[2006]]: ''Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama''
** (issue 2): "'Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay': Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien"
** (issue 2): "[https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/working-with-english/volume-2/fimi-come-sing-ye-light-fairy-things-tripping-so-gay-victorian-fairies-and-the-early-work-of-j.-r.-r.-tolkien.pdf 'Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay': Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien]"
* [[2006]]: ''Folklore''
* [[2006]]: ''Folklore''
** (issue 2): "'Mad Elves' and 'Elusive Beauty': Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology"
** (issue 117): [http://dimitrafimi.com/teaching/mad-elves-and-elusive-beauty-some-celtic-strands-of-tolkiens-mythology/ "'Mad Elves' and 'Elusive Beauty': Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology"]
* [[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
* [[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
** Fairyology, Victorian
** Fairyology, Victorian
**Greece: Reception of Tolkien
**Greece: Reception of Tolkien
* [[2007]]: ''[[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4]]''
* [[2007]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 6]]
** "Tolkien's '"Celtic" type of legends': Merging Traditions"
** "Tolkien's '"Celtic" type of legends': Merging Traditions"
* [[2007]]: ''[[Silver Leaves]]''
* [[2007]]: ''[[Silver Leaves]]''
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* [[2007]]: ''Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture''
* [[2007]]: ''Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture''
** "Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture"
** "Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture"
* [[2008]]: ''[[Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On]]''
* [[2008]]: ''[[The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference]]''
** "Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth: Tolkien and Archaeology"
** "Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth: Tolkien and Archaeology"
* [[2008]]: ''[[Mallorn 46]]'':
* [[2008]]: [[Mallorn 46|''Mallorn'' 46]]:
** "Teaching and Studying Tolkien"
** "Teaching and Studying Tolkien"
* [[2011]]: [[Picturing Tolkien|''Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings ''Film Trilogy'']]
** "Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings''"
* [[2012]]: ''Critical Insights: The Fantastic''
**"Tolkien and the Fantasy Tradition",
* [[2013]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City]]''
**"Wildman of the Woods': Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle-earth in ''The Children of Húrin''"
* [[2014]]: [[Mallorn 55|''Mallorn'' 55]]:
** "Tolkien and Folklore: ''[[Sellic Spell]]'' and ''[[The Lay of Beowulf]]''"
* [[2017]]: ''The Times Literary Supplement''
** "[http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/how-to-invent-a-language-tolkien-burgess/ Inventing a whole language]"
** "[https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fantasy-writers-create-new-realities-and-cultures-essay-dimitra-fimi/ Why build new worlds]"
* [[2017]]: ''[[Death and Immortality in Middle-earth]]''
** "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''"
* [[2018]]: ''[[Journal of Tolkien Research]]'': Volume 5
** "[https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol5/iss1/2/ Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation]"
* [[2018]]: ''The Conversation''
** "[https://theconversation.com/was-tolkien-really-racist-108227 Was Tolkien really racist?]"
* [[2022]]: ''The Conversation''
** "[https://theconversation.com/lord-of-the-rings-debunking-the-backlash-against-non-white-actors-in-amazons-new-adaption-177791 Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption]"
===Reviews===
===Reviews===
* [[2005]]: ''[[Tolkien Studies: Volume 3]]'':
* [[2005]]: ''[[Tolkien Studies: Volume 3]]'':
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* [[2008]]: ''Folklore''
* [[2008]]: ''Folklore''
** Review of ''[[Ents, Elves, and Eriador]]'' by [[Matthew Dickerson]] and [[Jonathan Evans]]
** Review of ''[[Ents, Elves, and Eriador]]'' by [[Matthew Dickerson]] and [[Jonathan Evans]]
===Interviews===
* [[2012]]: [http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/1057-interview-dimitra-fimi.php Interview with Dr. Dimitra Fimi on lecturing online Tolkien courses] on [[Tolkien Library]]
* [[2019]]: [https://www.tolkcast.de/episode/017-das-interview-mit-dimitra-fimi-shaun-gunnar Episode 17] of [[TolkCast]]
===Talks/Lectures===
* [[2019]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAAYOnkVnwk&ab_channel=TheTolkienSociety ''Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes: a thoroughly vulpine talk in which there may be singing!''] at [[Tolkien 2019]]
* [[2023]]: ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usDl-qgsPEA&ab_channel=UniversityofBirmingham "I hold the key": J. R. R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences]'' at the [[wikipedia: University of Birmingham| University of Birmingham]]
===Other appearances===
*[[2009]]: Clash of the Gods
**''[[Tolkien's Monsters]]''
*[[2014]]: [[Beowulf Launch Party]]
*[[2014]]: BBC - iWonder
**''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zgr9kqt How was The Lord of The Rings incluenced by World War One?]''
*[[2014]]: BBC - iWonder
**''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z2hthyc Why do the Elves in The Hobbit sound Welsh?]''
*[[2016]]: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
**''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mvd5z Tolkien: The Lost Recordings]''
*[[2020]]: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
**''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p60n Our Sacred Story]''
==Awards==
*[[2010]]: '''[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies]]''', ''[[Tolkien, Race and Cultural History|Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits]]''
*[[2017]]:'''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Book''', ''[[A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages]]'' (co-editor with [[Andrew Higgins]])
*[[2018]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article''', ''"Tears are the very wine of blessedness": joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings''
*[[2019]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article''', ''[https://theconversation.com/was-tolkien-really-racist-108227 Was Tolkien really racist?]''
*[[2019]]: '''[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for General Myth and Fantasy Studies]]''', ''Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology''
*[[2021]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Outstanding Contribution'''
==External links==
==External links==
* '''[http://www.dimitrafimi.com/ Official website]'''
* '''[http://www.dimitrafimi.com/ Official website]'''
* [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/learn/lit_cw/dimitra_fimi.php Dimitra Fimi] at [http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/ Cardiff University]
* [https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/dimitrafimi/ Dimitra Fimi] at the [https://www.gla.ac.uk/ University of Glasgow]


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Dimitra Fimi
Biographical information
Born2 June 1978
EducationCardiff University
OccupationProfessor of Fantasy and Children's Literature
WebsiteOfficial website

Dimitra Fimi (born 2 June 1978) is Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow. She teaches and researches on many fantasy authors. She is also co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow. Fimi is currently on the Mallorn editorial team.[1]

Bibliography, selected[edit | edit source]

Books[edit | edit source]

Articles[edit | edit source]

Reviews[edit | edit source]

Interviews[edit | edit source]

Talks/Lectures[edit | edit source]

Other appearances[edit | edit source]

Awards[edit | edit source]


External links[edit | edit source]

References

  1. ↑ Editorial Team at journals.tolkiensociety.org (accessed 18 June 2023)
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