Professional Writing

Tolkien’s Revision of Coleridge: Reviving the Creative/Romantic Imagination

Essay on Tolkien’s revision of Coleridge presented at Life, the Universe, & Everything XVIII, March 23-25 2000, BYU in Provo, UT.

Gandalf: An Angel to Tolkien’s Middle-earth

Paper on Gandalf as an angel in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, presented at the Angels in Literature, 1995, Seattle Pacific University in Seattle WA.

Derrida and the Teaching of Writing: Forming (a) Deconstructive Pedagogy(s)

This essay is quite playful and very deconstructive. While writing about using derridean deconstruction to teach writing, I deconstruct the text and show the playfulness of language in the footnotes.