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Fantasy Studies

Precepted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson

Fantasy Studies

Precepted by Dr. Julian Barr

Current and Upcoming Modules in the British Literature Portal

March 2026

A Pilgrim’s Journey through Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Precepted by Dr. Brenton Dickieson

Signum Classics: Dracula

Precepted by Dr. Julian Barr

Tolkien as Mythmaker: The Architecture of Middle-earth
(Section 1)

Precepted by Dr. Sara Brown

Tolkien as Mythmaker: The Architecture of Middle-earth
(Section 2)

Precepted by Dr. Sara Brown

April 2026

C.S. Lewis and the Medieval and Renaissance World

Precepted by Dr. Gabriel Schenk

Exploring Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Precepted by Dr. Sara Brown

Shakespeare's Epic Fairy Tales: Pericles and Cymbeline

Precepted by Dr. Liam Daley

May 2026

Signum Classics: Phantastes Candidate

Precepted by Dr. Julian Barr

June 2026

Continuing the Journey: Exploring Alan Garner’s The Moon of Gomrath Candidate

Precepted by Dr. Sara Brown

Shakespeare's Epic Fairy Tales: The Winter's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen Candidate

Precepted by Dr. Liam Daley

Signum Classics: Lilith Candidate

Precepted by Dr. Julian Barr

Preceptors for British Literature

Amy H. Sturgis

Brenton Dickieson

Carl Edlund Anderson

Chris Vaccaro

Elise Trudel

Faith Acker

Gabriel Schenk

Hamish Williams

James Tauber

Jennifer Rogers

Julian Barr

Liam Daley

Maggie Parke

Patrick Lyon

Pilar Barrera

Sara Brown

Shawn Gaffney

Sparrow F. Alden

All Modules in British Literature Portal

Module	Preceptor	Sector	Portals
A Pilgrim’s Journey through Narnia Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Brenton Dickieson	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fairy Tales Fantasy
A Pilgrim’s Journey through Narnia: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia	Dr. Brenton Dickieson	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fairy Tales Fantasy
A Pilgrim’s Journey through Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Dr. Brenton Dickieson	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fairy Tales Fantasy
A Pilgrim’s Journey through Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	Dr. Brenton Dickieson	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fairy Tales Fantasy
Book Club: A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro or A Study of Memory	Pilar Barrera	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Japan Women's Studies
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Magic
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Magic
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 1	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Monsters
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Monsters
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Monsters
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 1	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Magic
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Magic
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 1	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Monsters
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Magic Monsters
Celtic Gods and Goddesses: Who Were They, Really?	Dr. Shelley Williams	General Humanities Sector	Arthurian Literature British Literature Celtic Mythology Comparative Mythology Cultural Studies Education Fairy Tales Fantasy History Magic Poetry Romanticism The Middle Ages
Continuing the Journey: Exploring Alan Garner’s The Moon of Gomrath	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy
Creative Quenya Translation	Patrick Lyon	Language Sector	British Literature Conversational Languages Creative Writing Education JRR Tolkien Linguistics
C.S. Lewis and the Classical World: Till We Have Faces in Context	Dr. Gabriel Schenk	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Classical Literature CS Lewis The Inklings
C.S. Lewis and the Medieval and Renaissance World	Dr. Gabriel Schenk	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature CS Lewis Renaissance The Inklings The Middle Ages
C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves and Greek Philosophy	Dr. Julian Barr	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Classical Literature CS Lewis Cultural Studies Philosophy Religious Studies The Greco-Roman World The Inklings
Discovering Terry Pratchett's Discworld Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Terry Pratchett Worldbuilding
Discovering the Discworld: Aching and Growing	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Magic Terry Pratchett
Discovering the Discworld: Discworld and Modernity	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Fantasy
Discovering the Discworld: Quis Custodiet Custard?	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Fantasy Magic Terry Pratchett
Discovering the Discworld: The Adventures of Rincewind	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Fantasy
Discovering the Discworld: The Existential Angst of Death	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Fantasy Magic Terry Pratchett
Discovering the Discworld: Which Witch is Which?	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Terry Pratchett Worldbuilding
Exploring Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy
Exploring Tolkien's "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth"	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Metaphysics Philosophy The Inklings
Exploring Tolkien’s “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”	Dr. Chris Vaccaro	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Germanic Studies JRR Tolkien Monsters The Middle Ages
Exploring Tolkien's Letter to Milton Waldman	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien
Exploring Tolkien’s "On Fairy-stories"	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy JRR Tolkien The Inklings
Fairy Tales Studies: Exploring Fairy Tales from Around the World and from Different Authors	Pilar Barrera	Fantasy Studies Sector	Adaptation Theory British Literature Children’s Literature Comparative Mythology Cultural Studies East Asian Studies Fairy Tales Fantasy Japan Magic Monsters Worldbuilding
From Page to Heart: A Workshop for Memorizing What You Love	Sam Roche	Living Arts Sector	Advanced Languages Beginning Languages British Literature Children’s Literature Classical Literature Collaborative Feedback Conversational Languages Creative Writing Cultural Studies East Asian Studies Fairy Tales Intermediate Languages Invented Languages Philosophy Poetry Religious Studies Workshops
Gothic Doubles: Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Gothic Literature
Harry Potter - The Films	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	Adaptation Theory British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Film Studies Magic Monsters
His Dark Materials in Context Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Faith Acker Dr. Gabriel Schenk	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Cultural Studies Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy Philosophy Women's Studies Worldbuilding
His Dark Materials in Context: The Amber Spyglass	Dr. Faith Acker Dr. Gabriel Schenk	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Cultural Studies Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy Philosophy Women's Studies Worldbuilding
His Dark Materials in Context: The Golden Compass	Dr. Faith Acker Dr. Gabriel Schenk	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Cultural Studies Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy Philosophy Women's Studies Worldbuilding
His Dark Materials in Context: The Subtle Knife	Dr. Faith Acker Dr. Gabriel Schenk	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Cultural Studies Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy Philosophy Women's Studies Worldbuilding
Le Morte Darthur: Seeking the Holy Grail in Malory and Monty Python	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	Adaptation Theory Arthurian Literature British Literature Film Studies History Le Morte Darthur The Middle Ages
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's "The Death of King Arthur"	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	Arthurian Literature British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy History Le Morte Darthur The Middle Ages
Ink Spots and Tea Stains: What We Learn from C.S. Lewis's Writing Habits	Dr. Brenton Dickieson	Creative Writing Sector	Archival Research Arthurian Literature British Literature Children’s Literature Composition Crafting Creative Writing CS Lewis Digital Humanities Fantasy JRR Tolkien Owen Barfield Poetry Science Fiction The Inklings The Middle Ages Worldbuilding
Meet The Last Man	Dr. Amy H. Sturgis	General Humanities Sector	Anthropocene British Literature Ecocriticism Gothic Literature History Romanticism Science Fiction Time Travel
Modern British Poetry	Dr. Sara Brown	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Poetry
Narnia Book Club: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis	Elise Trudel	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature CS Lewis Fantasy
Narnia Book Club: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis	Elise Trudel	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature CS Lewis Fantasy
Narnia Book Club: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis	Elise Trudel	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature CS Lewis Fantasy
Narnia Book Club: The Chronicles of Narnia Non-Sequential Series	Elise Trudel	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature CS Lewis Fantasy
Reading Middle English: An Introduction	Dr. Liam Daley	Language Sector	Beginning Languages British Literature Drama Fantasy History Literacy The Middle Ages
Representing Utopia through the Ages	Dr. Hamish Williams	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Classical Literature Comparative Mythology Cultural Studies Ethics Fantasy History JRR Tolkien Philosophy The Greco-Roman World Travel Literature Utopias Worldbuilding
Shakespeare's Epic Fairy Tales Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	Adaptation Theory British Literature Drama Fairy Tales Fantasy History Renaissance Shakespeare The Middle Ages Travel Literature
Shakespeare's Epic Fairy Tales: Pericles and Cymbeline	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Drama Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy History Magic Renaissance Shakespeare The Middle Ages
Shakespeare's Epic Fairy Tales: The Winter's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	Adaptation Theory British Literature Drama Fairy Tales Fantasy History Renaissance Shakespeare The Middle Ages Travel Literature
Signum Classics: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Fantasy Magic
Signum Classics: Dracula	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Dark Academia Fantasy Gothic Literature Monsters Romanticism
Signum Classics: Frankenstein	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Gothic Literature Monsters Science Fiction
Signum Classics: Lilith	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	Bible British Literature Fantasy Weird Fiction
Signum Classics: Phantastes	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature CS Lewis Fantasy
Signum Classics: The House of the Wolfings	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Germanic Studies JRR Tolkien Magic The Middle Ages Viking Age
Signum Classics: The Princess and the Goblin / The Princess and Curdie	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature CS Lewis Fairy Tales Fantasy Magic Monsters
Signum Classics: The Roots of the Mountains (Part 1)	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Germanic Studies JRR Tolkien The Middle Ages Viking Age
Signum Classics: The Roots of the Mountains (Part 2)	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Germanic Studies JRR Tolkien The Middle Ages Viking Age
Signum Classics Series Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Julian Barr	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Classical Literature Dark Academia Dystopian Literature Fairy Tales Fantasy Gothic Literature Monsters Romanticism Speculative Fiction Young Adult Fiction
Susan Cooper: King of Shadows	Dr. Maggie Parke	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Fantasy Magic Shakespeare
The Art of Powerful Language is Poetry	Marisol Steuben	Creative Writing Sector	British Literature Composition Creative Writing Fairy Tales Music Poetry
The Dark is Rising Sequence Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: Greenwitch	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree	Dr. Sara Brown Dr. Maggie Parke	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: The Dark Is Rising	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: The Grey King	Dr. Sara Brown Dr. Maggie Parke	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Children’s Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Magic
The Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, and Williams	Dr. Gabriel Schenk	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Charles Williams Children’s Literature CS Lewis Epic Fantasy Fairy Tales Fantasy JRR Tolkien Owen Barfield The Inklings
The Minoans and Modernity: Minotaurs, Labyrinths, and Other Myths	Dr. Hamish Williams	General Humanities Sector	Ancient Middle East Archaeology British Literature Children’s Literature Classical Literature Comparative Mythology Cultural Studies Fantasy Film Studies History Modernism Monsters Science Fiction The Greco-Roman World Travel Literature Utopias
The Nature of Things: Shards of the Fall in Tolkien's Work	Jay Moses	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature History JRR Tolkien
The (Other) Canterbury Tales	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Fairy Tales History Poetry The Middle Ages Travel Literature
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Early Poems 1 (Volume 1: The Years 1910-1919)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Early Poems 2 (Volume 1: The Years 1910-1919)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Early Poems 3 (Volume 1: The Years 1910-1919)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Later Poems 1 (Volume 3: The Years 1931-1967)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Later Poems 2 (Volume 3: The Years 1931-1967)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Later Poems 3 (Volume 3: The Years 1931-1967)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Mature Years 1 (Volume 2: The Years 1919-1931)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Mature Years 2 (Volume 2: The Years 1919-1931)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Mature Years 3 (Volume 2: The Years 1919-1931)	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: Tolkien's Collected Poems (The Years 1910-1967 in Three Volumes) Non-Sequential Series	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy JRR Tolkien Poetry The Inklings
Tolkien and the Classical World	Dr. Hamish Williams	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Classical Literature Comparative Mythology Cultural Studies Epic Fantasy Ethics Fantasy History JRR Tolkien Philosophy Poetry The Greco-Roman World
Tolkien and the Romantics Non-Sequential Series	Will Sherwood	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Ecocriticism JRR Tolkien Legacy Literacy Philosophy Romanticism Women's Studies
Tolkien and the Romantics: Dark Romanticism and the Gothic Literary Tradition	Will Sherwood	General Humanities Sector	Anthropocene British Literature Classical Literature Ecocriticism Epic Fantasy Fantasy Gothic Literature JRR Tolkien Literacy Magic Metaphysics Monsters Philosophy Poetry Romanticism The Middle Ages
Tolkien and the Romantics: Forging Myth and History	Will Sherwood	General Humanities Sector	Anthropocene Arthurian Literature British Literature Classical Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Gothic Literature History JRR Tolkien Literacy Magic Metaphysics Monsters Philosophy Poetry Romanticism The Middle Ages Time Travel Travel Literature Worldbuilding
Tolkien and the Romantics: Imagining and Dreaming	Will Sherwood	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Classical Literature Epic Fantasy Fantasy Gothic Literature JRR Tolkien Literacy Magic Metaphysics Owen Barfield Poetry Romanticism The Inklings The Middle Ages Time Travel
Tolkien and the Romantics: Nature and Ecology	Will Sherwood	Fantasy Studies Sector	Anthropocene British Literature Ecocriticism Epic Fantasy JRR Tolkien Legacy Literacy Metaphysics Philosophy Romanticism Travel Literature Women's Studies
Tolkien as Mythmaker: The Architecture of Middle-earth	Dr. Sara Brown	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Comparative Mythology Epic Fantasy Fantasy Invented Languages JRR Tolkien
Túrin's Bones: The Influences of Sigurd, Oedipus, and Kullervo on J.R.R. Tolkien's Tale of Túrin Turambar	Dr. Carl Edlund Anderson	Fantasy Studies Sector	British Literature Classical Literature Epic Fantasy Folklore Germanic Studies JRR Tolkien Kalevala The Greco-Roman World The Middle Ages Viking Age
When I Consider Everything that Grows: The Shakespearean Sonnets Non-Sequential Series	Patrick Lyon	General Humanities Sector	British Literature Poetry Shakespeare
Wild Beasts at the Tea Table: The Unnerving Tales of Saki	Dr. Liam Daley	General Humanities Sector	British Literature History Novellas

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