Peter Grybauskas
Research Expertise
Medieval
Mythology and Folklore
Peter is the author of A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas (2021) and editor of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Battle of Maldon (2023).
He leads courses on fantasy and food on campus and abroad in Italy and the UK.
Publications
"'Green Hill Country': A Scholar's Tale."
From A Scholar's Tale." A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger
The Gabbro Head Press has produced an anthology of essays written in tribute to the inspiration and influence of the renowned Tolkien scholar, writer, and professor, Verlyn Flieger. Entitled A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger, this volume was edited by the eminent Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff, author of The History of the Hobbit.
"'Now Often Forgotten': Gollum, the Great War, and the Last Alliance."
From Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I.
World War I has been called “the poets’ war,” as it was characterized by a massive outpouring of works of literature during and after the war. Much of this literary harvest, as Paul Fussell brilliantly demonstrated in The Great War and Modern Memory, hinged on an ironic response to the deadly absurdities of World War I.
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