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Dimitra Fimi
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Dimitra Fimi is a Greek academic and author who studies J. R. R. Tolkien and children's fantasy; she became Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at Glasgow in 2023.
Biography
Dimitra Fimi (born 2 June 1978) is a Greek academic and writer whose research focuses on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and on children's fantasy literature. She is known for scholarly work that treats Tolkien's creative output as an interconnected and developing body of writing.
In 2023 she became Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Tolkien, Race and Cultural History (2008), a study that examines the evolution of Tolkien's mythology across his life and the intellectual and cultural history of his time, and which considers the whole corpus of his legendarium, including the History of Middle-earth volumes.
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Books by Dimitra Fimi
Tolkien, race, and cultural history
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History (2008) explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology by examining how it changed in relation to Tolkien's life and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. The book treats Tolkien's work as an ever-developing 'legendarium' and examines the whole corpus of his writings, including the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series.