DENNIS WILSON WISE
e-mail: wolf38810@gmail.com, dwwise@arizona.edu
University of Arizona
Updated 28 Oct. 2024

Click this link for my full CV (pdf). Updated: 28 October 2024.

You may also view my ORCID or my page at Humanities Commons.

For an overview on me and the Modern Alliterative Revival, see Forgotten Ground Regained.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

• Professor of Practice, University of Arizona (started in 2017), 2023- –

ADMINSTRATIVE POSITIONS HELD

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Arizona, 2021- 2024

BOOKS

• Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology. Notes and critical introduction by D.W. Wise. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2024.
  • Academic Reviews: Strange Horizons, Studies in the Fantastic, 
  • Trade Reviews: Quadrant, Star*Line, Wiðowinde, Amon Hen,
  • Interviews: Eternal Haunted Summer, 

Refereed articles on the Modern Alliterative Revival

• 2024. “A Schema for Artorius: History, John Heath-Stubbs, and the Last Modernist Epic.” Journal of the International Arthurian Society, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 134–56, doi: 10.1515/jias-2024-0006. On Humanities Commons.
• 2023. “A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter.” Notes & Queries., vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 310-12, doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjad066. On Humanities Commons.
• 2023. “Dating ‘Sweet Desire’: C. S. Lewis’s Education in Alliterative Poetics.” English Text Construction, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 83–110, doi.org/10.1075/etc.22017.wis. On Humanities Commons.
• 2023. “Carved in Granite: C. S. Lewis’s Revivalism in The Nameless Isle.” Journal of Inklings Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 151–79. On Humanities Commons.
• 2021. “Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry.” Studies in the Fantastic, vol. 11, pp. 22–54, doi:10.1353/sif.2021.0001. Available on Project Muse.
• 2021. “Poul Anderson and the American Alliterative Revival.” Extrapolation, vol. 62, no. 2, Summer, pp. 157–80, doi:10.3828/extr.2021.9. Available on Humanities Commons.
• 2018. “Paul Edwin Zimmer’s Alliterative Style: A Metrical Legacy of J. R. R. Tolkien and Poul Anderson.” Mythlore, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 183-201. Available through Open Access.

Refereed articles on Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

• Forthcoming. “Lewis’s Modernist Moment: Taking up the Gauntlet in ‘Poem for Psychoanalysts and/or Theologians.’” Journal of Modern Literature.
• 2021. “Globalization, Depth, and the Domestic Hero: The Postmodern Transformation of Tolkien’s Bard in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 18, pp. 211–33. On Humanities Commons.
• 2020. “On Ways of Studying Tolkien: Notes Toward a Better Epic Fantasy Criticism.” Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-25. Available through Open Access.
• 2017. “Unraveling The Hobbit’s Strange Publication History: A Look at Possible Worlds, Modality, and Accessibility Relations.” Subcreation: Worldbuilding in the Fantastic, spec. issue of Fastitocalon, vol. 7, no. 1/2, pp. 121-35. On Humanities Common.
• 2017. “J.R.R. Tolkien and the 1954 Nomination of E. M. Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature.” Mythlore, vol 37, no. 1, 143-65. Available through Open Access.
• 2016. “Harken Not To Wild Beasts: Between Rage And Eloquence in Saruman And Thrasymachus.” Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-32. Available through Open Access.
  • Translations: Greek. Οι Επιδράσεις της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Γραμματείας στο Έργο του Τζ.Ρ.Ρ. Τόλκιν [Echoes of Ancient Greek Literature in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work], edited by Dimitra Fimi and Dimitris Kolovos, Kedros Publishers, 2021.
• 2016. “Book of the Lost Narrator: Re-Reading The Silmarillion as a Unified Text.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 13, pp. 101-24. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/tks.2016.0008. Post-print version is available here.

Refereed articles on Fantasy Literature

• 2021. “A Brief History of EPVIDS: Subjectivity and Evil Possessed Vampire Demon Swords.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 83-103. On Humanities Commons.
• 2021. “Just Reading Piers Anthony’s A Spell for Chameleon: An Appreciation, with Caveats, and an Elegy.” Mythlore, vol. 40, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2021, pp. 85–102. Available through Open Access.
• 2020. “The Image of Law in Donaldson’s ‘Reave the Just’: Agency, Blame, and Sexual Assault.” Law & Literature, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 73–92, 10.1080/1535685X.2020.1734314. On Humanities Commons.
• 2019. “History and Precarity: Glen Cook and the Rise of Picaresque Fantasy Epic.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 331-52. On Humanities Commons.
• 2019. “‘Violations as Profound as any Rape’: Feminism and Sexed Violence in Stephen R. Donaldson.” Extrapolation, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 133-56. Post-print version is available here.

Refereed articles on SF and the Gothic

• 2021. “Just like Henry James (Except with Cannibalism): The International Weird in H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Rats in the Walls.’” Gothic Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 96-110, doi:10.3366/gothic.2021.0080. On Humanities Commons.
• 2021. “Utopias Unrealizable and Ambiguous: Plato, Leo Strauss, and The Dispossessed.” The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction, Ethics, edited by Christopher L. Robinson, Sarah Bouttier, and Pierre-Louis Patoine, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 47–63. On Humanities Commons.
• 2020. “The Hesitation Principle in ‘The Rats in the Walls.’” Supernatural Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, Summer, pp. 84-99. On Humanities Commons.

PUBLIC HUMANITIES

• “Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 25 Sept. 2024.
  • Included in “ARB’s 2024 Notable Criticism” by the Ancillary Review of Books.
• “The woman who revolutionized genre fantasy is finally getting her due.” The Conversation (U.S.), 9 Oct. 2024. Over 250,000 page views.
• “The New Poets of Rum Ram Ruf” series for the Tales After Tolkien Society. Discussion of individual poets in the Modern Alliterative Revival. 2024 and ongoing.

Non-Refereed Articles, Encyclopedia Entries, and Book Reviews

• See C.V. for full list of non-refereed articles & book chapters (currently at 7)
• See C.V. for full list of encyclopedia entries (currently at 7)
• See C.V. for full list of book reviews (currently at 16)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• See my pdf CV (at top of this screen) or the Teaching tab on this website.

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS (selected)

• 2024.  Liverpool University Press Award for Outstanding Journal Reviewers; selected by Science Fiction Film & Television.
• 2024. Outstanding Service SBS Faculty Award for service above-and-beyond to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UArizona.
• 2023. Mary Kay Bray Award for best review in the SFRA Review; awarded by the Science Fiction Research Association.
• 2020–21. Lecturer Teaching Award – awarded once yearly by the UA Writing Program (one of the largest in the country) for excellence in teaching – U of A 2020
• 2020. World Fantasy Award in the “Special Award: Non-Professional” category for Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research

Media Appearances

• 2024. Paid Research Consultant for PBS series Renegades. Episode: “Judy-Lynn del Rey: The Galaxy Gal.” Premiered 1 Oct. 2024.
• 2021. “18 – FOTR Part 2: The Shadow of the Past—with Dennis Wilson Wise.” Watch Party: Lord of the Rings on Prime, a podcast hosted by Michael Rolland and Jennifer Gallagher. 22 Sep. 2021.
• 2020. “Interview: Dennis Wise.” Reading Tolkien: A Podcast, hosted by Dr. Benjamin Bassett. 20 Dec. 2020.
• 2018. Wildcat Crime (local podcast; interview): “The Myths, Legends, and Crimes Behind the Haunting of Maricopa Hall” & “Violence and Ghost Stories” – U of A

MAJOR SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES (selected)

• 2021- –. Awards Administrator for the Mythopoeic Society
• 2017- 2022. Reviews editor, Fafnir: Nordic Journal of SFF Research
• Blind peer reviewer for the journals Extrapolation (x3); Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts (x3); Gothic Studies (x2); Fafnir (x1); Supernatural Studies (x1); Science Fiction Film & Television (x1); and Mythlore (x1). Also reviewed manuscripts for Wiley-Blackwell, McFarland, and Springer Nature.