Simon Horobin, 'Writing the Oxford lives of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis'

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop:

Simon Horobin,

Writing the Oxford lives of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

This talk will reflect on the experience of researching the Oxford lives of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. It will look in particular at the kinds of materials available in the Bodleian Library, University Archives and College libraries and archives to reconstruct the academic worlds of these two important Oxford figures. As well as showing the potential such resources offer for deepening our understanding of the biographies of Lewis and Tolkien, I will consider their potential for life writing more generally.

Speaker Details:

Credit: John Cairns

Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College. He has published widely on medieval literature and the English language. He has lectured to a variety of audiences on C.S. Lewis, has published articles on Lewis’s scholarly writings and is the author of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford (Bodleian Publishing 2024).

Further Details and Contacts:

This is an in-person event and will not be recorded.

NOTE: this event takes place at the new Schwarzman Centre, not the St Cross building.

Registration is required and will close one week before the event (17:30 on 30 January). Confirmations of successful registration will be sent out one week before the event.

Please note that this event is exclusively open to current members of the University of Oxford. Workshop places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to members of the English Faculty. 

Queries regarding this event should be addressed to Charles Pidgeon.