Last Fall, a student in one of my humanities classes  classes, Evan Hildreth, did an interview with me about my teaching experience and academic background. The student’s article, A professor doing what he loves was published in The Sandbox, St. Petersburg College’s online student newspaper.

One of the things my former student mentions in the article is my academic expertise and research interests. He mentions my book in progress called The House of David in Middle-Earth which explores the themes of monarchy and the return of the king (in ancient Greek, the word parousia meaning “appearance” or “return”) in both the Bible and J.R.R. Tolkien’s books The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. I will be presenting about this topic at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) national conference in New Orleans this April and have already posted Part I of my research Part I of my research to this blog. I encourage all of you to check it out! I am working on Part II, which should be going up soon. Thank you for reading!