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'''Marjorie | '''Marjorie Jean Burns''' (b. [[1940]]) is an English professor at [[wikipedia:Portland State University|Portland State University]] in [[wikipedia:Portland, Oregon|Portland, Oregon]]. | ||
Her Ph.D. is from [[wikipedia:University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] and focuses on the nineteenth-century British novel. She has been on the faculty of Portland State University for over thirty years, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature, [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], and Norse and Celtic mythology, and more. She has lectured on Tolkien throughout the United States, as well as Australia, Norway, England, and The Netherlands. | Her Ph.D. is from [[wikipedia:University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] and focuses on the nineteenth-century British novel. She has been on the faculty of Portland State University for over thirty years, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature, [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], and Norse and Celtic mythology, and more. She has lectured on Tolkien throughout the United States, as well as Australia, Norway, England, and The Netherlands. | ||
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===Books=== | ===Books=== | ||
*[[2006]]: ''[[Perilous Realms: Celtic And Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'' | *[[2006]]: ''[[Perilous Realms: Celtic And Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'' | ||
*[[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia|J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]'' (associate editor with [[Douglas A. Anderson]], [[Verlyn Flieger]], and [[ | *[[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia|J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]'' (associate editor with [[Douglas A. Anderson]], [[Verlyn Flieger]], and [[Tom Shippey]]) | ||
===Articles and Chapters=== | ===Articles and Chapters=== | ||
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*[[2006]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004]]'' | *[[2006]]: ''[[The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004]]'' | ||
**"King and Hobbit: The Exalted and Lowly in Tolkien's Created Worlds" (pp.139-51) | **"King and Hobbit: The Exalted and Lowly in Tolkien's Created Worlds" (pp.139-51) | ||
*[[2007]]: '' | *[[2007]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 4]] | ||
**"Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den)" (pp.200-211) | **"Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den)" (pp.200-211) | ||
*[[2008]]: ''[[The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference]]'' | |||
**"Containment and Progression in J.R.R. Tolkien's World" | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://sites.google.com/site/marjorieburns/ | *'''[http://sites.google.com/site/marjorieburns/ Official websites]''' | ||
[[CATEGORY:Academics|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | |||
[[CATEGORY:Authors|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | [[CATEGORY:Authors|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | ||
[[CATEGORY:JRRTE contributors|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | |||
[[CATEGORY:American people|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | [[CATEGORY:American people|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | ||
[[CATEGORY:People by name|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | [[CATEGORY:People by name|Burns, Marjorie J.]] | ||
Revision as of 21:53, 7 September 2012
Marjorie Jean Burns (b. 1940) is an English professor at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
Her Ph.D. is from UC Berkeley and focuses on the nineteenth-century British novel. She has been on the faculty of Portland State University for over thirty years, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Norse and Celtic mythology, and more. She has lectured on Tolkien throughout the United States, as well as Australia, Norway, England, and The Netherlands.
Bibliography, selected
Books
- 2006: Perilous Realms: Celtic And Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth
- 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (associate editor with Douglas A. Anderson, Verlyn Flieger, and Tom Shippey)
Articles and Chapters
- 1988: Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, Number 53, Vol. 14, no. 3, spring 1988
- "The Anonymous Fairy Tale: Ruskin's The King of the Golden River" (pp.38-42)
- 1989: Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, Number 58, Vol. 15, no. 4, summer 1989
- "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Journey North" (pp.5-9)
- 1990: Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. XXV, No. 1-2, Nov. 1990
- "J.R.R. Tolkien: The British and Norse in Tension" (pp.49-59)
- 1991: Studies in Medievalism, Vol. III, no. 3-4, winter, spring 1991
- "Echos of William Morris' Icelandic Journals in J.R.R. Tolkien" (pp.367-373)
- 1995: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
- "Eating, Devouring, Sacrifice and Ultimate Just Desserts" (pp.108-114)
- 1998: Between Faith and Fiction: Tolkien and the Powers of His World
- "All in One, One in All," (pp.2-15)
- 1998: Proceedings of Unquendor's Third Lustrum Conference
- "Spiders and Evil Red Eyes" (pp.40-54)
- 2000: Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
- "Gandalf and Odin" (pp.219-31)
- 2002: 2001: A Tolkien Odyssey
- "Bridges, Gates, and Doors" (pp.77-104)
- 2004: Tolkien and the Invention of Myth
- "Norse and Christian Gods: The Integrative Theology of J.R.R. Tolkien" (pp.163-78)
- 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
- "Doubles"
- "Old Norse Literature"
- "Shelob"
- "Tour in the Alps, 1911"
- 2006: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004
- "King and Hobbit: The Exalted and Lowly in Tolkien's Created Worlds" (pp.139-51)
- 2007: Tolkien Studies: Volume 4
- "Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den)" (pp.200-211)
- 2008: The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
- "Containment and Progression in J.R.R. Tolkien's World"
