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Welcome to the Oxford Tolkien Network

A project that brings together scholars and students from the University of Oxford who carry out academic research on J.R.R. Tolkien, from a diverse array of backgrounds and perspectives.

Next Events

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Michael G. Tolkien on Eden, Fall, Exile and Beyond

30 October
Registration Open

Past Events

Tolkien Seminar TT 2026

27 July

Patterns of Xenia in Tolkien

14 June

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Permanent Members

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Catherine McIlwaine

Archivist, Bodleian Library
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Giuseppe Pezzini

Professor of Latin and Classical Philology, Corpus Christi College
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John Garth

DPhil Student, Author and Journalist, St Antony's College
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Mark Atherton

Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College
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Simon Horobin

Professor of English Language and Literature, Magdalen College
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Stuart Lee

Senior Member and Reader, Faculty of English Language and Literature
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Charlotte McKillop-Mash

Archivist, Tolkien Archives at the Bodleian Library
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Grace Khuri

Post-Award Member, Faculty of English
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Anine Englund

Post-award Member
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Julie Dresvina

Lecturer in Cultural History, History Faculty, The Stanford Program in Oxford
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Edmund Weiner

Deputy Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
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Eduardo F. Gutiérrez González

Junior Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences
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Eleanor Parker

Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College
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John Holmes

Honorary Associate, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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Michael Ward

Associate Member, Faculty of Theology and Religion
Hannah Roux

Hannah Roux

Postdoctoral Research, Calleva Research Centre Magdalen College
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Nino Suchwalko

DPhil Student, Corpus Christi College

Associate Members

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Andoni Cossio

Assistant Professor of English, University of the Basque Country (EHU) 
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Patrick Curry

Writer and Scholar
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Dimitra Fimi

Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature, University of Glasgow
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Holly Ordway

Professor of Faith and Culture
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Rafael Pascual

Fellow in English and Germanic Philology
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David Bernabé

Phd Student, University of St Andrews
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Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe

PhD Student
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James Tauber

Doctoral candidate, Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Christopher "Kit" Richards

PhD student
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Mareike Huber

PhD Student
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Mina Lukić Gunner

PhD Student
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Ryan Syler

Research Associate, PhD Student
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Samuel Renato Siqueira Sant'Ana

D.Phil. Student
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Byoungchul Seo

Lecturer, University of Yonsei, Seul
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Violeta de Frutos Menéndez

PhD Student, Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)