Signum Symposia

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The Signum Scene podcast covers Signum University news, Signum Symposia, and creator chats from Signum Plaza—engaging talks on literature for fans and scholars. Featuring event updates, faculty chats, MA student thesis presentations, and interviews with leading academics and creators, it offers something for everyone.

Recent Episodes
  • Thesis Theater: Jeffrey Wade, "Do the Inhabitants of Arda Know How Their Own Story Ends?"
    Jun 11, 2025 – 1:06:26
  • Thesis Theater: Fr. Andrew Damick, "Divine Council Theology in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth"
    Jun 4, 2025 – 1:03:01
  • Storyweb 003 - Brad Patty
    May 30, 2025 – 29:11
  • Thesis Theater: Sarah Monnier, "Toward a Digital Edition of Widsið"
    May 30, 2025 – 56:29
  • Storyweb 002 - What Has Gone Before
    May 14, 2025 – 11:09
  • Thesis Theater: Kimberly McKinney, "Ecology, Eucatastrophe, and Estel"
    May 14, 2025 – 55:42
  • Storyweb 001 - Sparrow Alden
    Apr 15, 2025 – 39:20
  • Storyweb 000 - Trailer
    Apr 15, 2025 – 1:17
  • State of the University Address, 2024
    Dec 31, 2024 – 1:33:53
  • Thesis Theater: Jay Moses, "Seedbed Of Darkness: M.R. James, Folk Horror, And 17th Century England"
    Nov 17, 2024 – 58:39
  • Thesis Theater: Peter DeVault, "Illuminating the Metrical Grammar of Germanic Alliterative Poetry"
    Oct 14, 2024 – 59:35
  • Thesis Theater: Julia Stowe, "Time and Eternity in 8-10th c. West Germanic Language and Literature"
    Sep 17, 2024 – 1:06:31
  • Thesis Theater: Robert Black, "Beowulf as a Christian Critique of Germanic Heroism"
    Aug 16, 2024 – 1:01:56
  • Thesis Theater: Celesta Clegg, "Original Sin: A Portrait of the Fall Through Germanic Texts”
    Jul 22, 2024 – 1:09:46
  • Thesis Theater: Shannon Choudhari, "Notion Club Papers and Tolkien’s Vision of Creative Mysticism"
    May 14, 2024 – 46:27
  • Thesis Theater: Trevor Brierly, "Tolkien's Vision of Faërie in 'Smith of Wooton Major'"
    May 14, 2024 – 57:07
  • Thesis Theater: Timothy Francis, "Administrative Art as Genre in Kafka, Tooker, and Ravn"
    Apr 12, 2024 – 1:01:14
  • Thesis Theater: Duane Watson, "Dominate or Preserve: Magic as a Means of Production in Middle-earth"
    Apr 12, 2024 – 59:39
  • Thesis Theater: Laurel Stevens, "An Awareness of Debts: Dark Academia and its Source-Texts"
    Mar 23, 2024 – 49:38
  • State of the University Address, Fall 2023
    Dec 11, 2023 – 32:52
  • Thesis Theater: Kira Tregoning, "The Semantic and Narrative Meaning in Homeric Epithets"
    Oct 8, 2023 – 1:02:37
  • Thesis Theater: Gina Petrone, "'Let Me In!' Vampirism in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights"
    Aug 3, 2023 – 47:21
  • Thesis Theater: Christoph Schabert, "Magus Saga Jarls: A Digital Edition"
    Aug 3, 2023 – 57:34
  • Thesis Theater: Patrick Lyon, "The Familiar and the Strange in the Old English Rhyming Poem"
    Aug 3, 2023 – 1:06:39
  • Summer Courses 2023
    Apr 28, 2023 – 1:02:11
  • Thesis Theater: Jennifer Ewing, “The Promises to the Overcomer”
    Apr 12, 2023 – 51:26
  • Spring Courses 2023
    Dec 3, 2022 – 1:03:18
  • State of the University Address, Fall 2022
    Nov 22, 2022 – 1:27:50
  • Thesis Theater: Nadia Schafer, "One Strange (s)Elf:...the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf"
    Sep 15, 2022 – 1:00:57
  • Fall Courses 2022
    Sep 2, 2022 – 1:09:11
  • Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, "Sub-creation Through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium"
    Jun 4, 2022 – 1:02:27
  • Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, "Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien's Epic of War"
    May 31, 2022 – 1:09:42
  • Thesis Theater: Emily Austin, "The Road Gives Ever On: the Road Motif in Lord of the Rings"
    May 22, 2022 – 46:54
  • Thesis Theater: Taylor Johnson Guinan, "Ventures into the Land of the Dead in Children's Literature”
    May 13, 2022 – 54:31
  • Thesis Theatre: Phil Knight, “Drauma-Jóns Saga: A Digital Edition and Translation”
    Apr 23, 2022 – 1:02:18
  • Summer Courses 2022
    Apr 23, 2022 – 1:02:10
  • Spring Courses 2022
    Jan 16, 2022 – 1:00:52
  • Thesis Theater: Elise Trudel Cedeño ~ "Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic"
    Jan 9, 2022 – 1:01:42
  • Hugo Award 2021: Best Novel Roundtable
    Dec 20, 2021 – 1:09:21
  • Thesis Theater: Ryan Moniz ~ “Brewing Óðinn’s Mead: A Reconstructive Approach”
    Dec 14, 2021 – 41:53
  • Thesis Theater: Eugene Sullivan ~ "Red Indians in Middle Earth"
    Nov 26, 2021 – 59:54
  • Tales in the Dark: A Samhain Romp
    Nov 7, 2021 – 43:32
  • State of the University Address, Fall 2021
    Oct 17, 2021 – 1:36:26
  • Thesis Theater: Shawn Gaffney ~ Hidden Contact: Unremarkable Evidence of Brittonic and Latin Effects
    Oct 1, 2021 – 1:03:08
  • Dr. Joy Sanchez-Taylor: Author Talk and Q&A on Science Fiction and Authors of Color
    Aug 26, 2021 – 1:01:14
  • Fall Courses 2021
    Aug 23, 2021 – 1:00:35
  • Thesis Theater: Maximilian Hart ~ Draconic Diction: Truth and Lies in Le Guin's Old Speech
    Aug 17, 2021 – 1:02:27
  • Summer Courses 2021
    Apr 17, 2021 – 59:39
  • Holly Ordway: Author Chat and Q&A on Tolkien's Modern Reading
    Apr 8, 2021 – 1:03:33
  • Carolyne Larrington - Author Q&A on Game of Thrones
    Mar 22, 2021 – 1:01:05
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