Maria Dahvana Headley, 'Tell Me A Story,' Tolkien Lecture 2023

"Tell Me A Story: How Fantastical Literature Has Been Shaped by Storytellers and Audiences." The 2023 Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, delivered by Maria Dahvana Headley on May 16 at Pembroke College, Oxford.
00:00 Lecture
41:39 Questions
Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of eight books, most recently Beowulf: A New Translation, which was named as a book of the year by The Atlantic Monthly, NPR, Vox, The Irish Times, The Guardian, the New Statesman, and more. It won the 2021 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Her upcoming projects include a ten-episode full-cast musical adaptation of Vergil’s Aeneid for Audible UK, to be released in 2023; a novel from FSG about volcanoes, creation myths and time travel; a spy thriller; and a nonfiction book about the history of storytelling.
More about Maria Dahvana Headley: mariadahvanaheadley.com
More about the Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature: tolkienlecture.org

[@tolkorm]

Best middle earth professor ever!

[@Sams911]

impressive that she's smart enough to be able to do it, but I'm not at all impressed with her translation of Beowulf... but then taste is a bit subjective.

[@PitchBlackForge]

This woman did the opposite of what the professor said was proper when treating an ancient text. And now she dares to invoke him. Shameful.