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Papers and Presentations

Here's a taste of the papers and panels we'll have at this year's Mythcon:

• Lawrence Santiago, “Clinical Analysis of a Hobbit Afflicted with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment”
• Sarah Beach, “A Wrinkle in Fate: The Mythic Implications of Whatsit, Who and Which in A Wrinkle in Time”
• Megan Abrahamson, “'Long Dark Hair in Great Plaits Braided with Gold': Black Fingon and Racebending in Transformative Tolkien Fanworks”
• Janet Brennan Croft and David Emerson, “While the Storyteller Speaks: Two Papers Applying Tolkienian Concepts to The Grateful Dead”
• Vicki Ronn, “What if There Isn’t a Train Wreck? Surviving Portal Worlds in the Works of Seanan McGuire”
• John Rosegrant, “Tolkien’s Monsters: Alien and Inside”
• Willow Dipasquale, “Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: environmental crises, consumerism-driven culture, and a society desperate for emotional connection”
• Carly Maris, “Romans as the Alien Other in Cleopatra in Space”
• Matthew Goodwin, “The Space Alien as a Multitude in Latinx Science Fiction”
• Dr. Christopher J V Loughlin, “'The most precious of all things is life itself — ultimate cost for perfect value': The Alien and the Struggle of Life and Death in Starship Troopers”
• Craig Boyd, “Mythopoeic Character and Moral Realism: Gollum as Familiar ‘Alien’ and (im)Moral Exemplar”
• Donald T. Williams, “A Far Green Country: The Eschatology of Tolkien’s Middle-earth”
• Anne Acker, “Something Which Ought to be Done When All Else Fails: The Experiential Education of Arthur in The Once and Future King”
• Romuald I. Lakowski, “Tolkien's Undragons: The Winged Steeds of the Ringwraiths”
• Daniel Viorica, “Crossings in Mist: Kantian transformations in The Lathe of Heaven”
• Alicia Fox-Lenz, “The Radiant Wyrm: Planting the Seeds of Mythopoeia in Hollow Knight”
• Journee Cotton, “The Environmental Bioethics of Space Travel: ‘Alien’ Bodies in C. S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy”
• Amber Lehning, “Bertilak, Britomart, and Bombadil Walk into a Bar: Nature as Ambiguous Other in Tolkien’s England”
• Rob Stauffer, “An Astronomical Breakdown of David Lindsay’s A Voyage to Arcturus”
• Robin Anne Reid, “Let’s start with the end of the world, why don’t we? The Disorienting Phenomenology of N. K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky”
• Michael Torregrossa, “ET Phone Camelot: Alien Life Forms in Arthurian Fiction”
• Joe Christopher, “The Transformations of Rabadash”
• Hadas Elber-Aviram, “Modern myth-making: Secondary World London in Neverwhere”
• Joseph Rex Young, “Hopeless Romantic; Sublime Impact in H.P. Lovecraft’s Innsmouth”
• Sultana Raza, “Common Elements in YA Mythic Portal Fantasies”
• Scott Hodgman, “Legends and Shadows: The Seen and Unseen Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien”
• Mackenzie Hilton, “From Δικη to Tom Bombadil: Tolkien’s Portrayal of Justice in The Lord of the Rings”
• Cami D. Agan, “Beyond the Borders of Memory: First Age Beleriand as Catastrophic Loss”
• Dr. Rebecca Umland, “Strange Faces, Other Minds: Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and the Alien Other”

• Tim Lenz, Alicia Fox-Lenz, Grace Moone, Pablo Guss: The Rings of Power Book Club: Seduction, Knowledge, and Metallurgy in the Second Age of Middle-earth & Open Discussion on The Peoples of Middle-earth: Tar-Elmar
• Eric Rauscher: Charles Williams poetry workshop
• Megan B. Abrahamson (moderator), Jessica Dickinson Goodman, Grace E. Moone, Jana Stone: “Queer Encounters of the Third Kind: The Alien Metaphor in Roswell, New Mexico”:
• Berni Phillips Bratman, Lynn Maudlin: Encanto Discussion
• Joseph Rex Young, Phillip Fitzsimmons, Bernadette Bosky: “Aliens in America: H. P. Lovecraft’s Experiments in Invasion Fantasy”
• Rivera Sun: Writing Mythopoeia For Social Justice
• Victoria Gaydosik, Phillip Fitzsimmons, Diane Fitzsimmons, Nolan Meditz, Ben Dressler: “Establishing a Chapter and Finding a Purpose: The Writers of the Rohirrim Discover Themselves”
• Lynn Maudlin, David Bratman, Lisa Deutsch Harrigan: Mythcon Memories
• David Bratman, Janet Brennan Croft, Jason Fisher, Robin Anne Reid: Aliens and Others in the Inklings