Dimitra Fimi

Dimitra Fimi (born 2 June 1978) is an academic and writer and since 2020 the Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow.[1][2] She is an authority on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and children's fantasy literature.[3]

Dimitra Fimi in 2020

Biography

Early life

From the island of Salamis in the Greek region of Attica, the daughter of teachers Pavlos Fimis and Theodora Papaliveriou-Fimi, she attended the 1st General Lyceum of Salamis from where she graduated in 1996. Fimi gained her BA degree at the University of Athens in 2000 before completing her MA in Early Celtic Studies (2002) and PhD in English Literature (2005) at Cardiff University.[4]

From 2009 to 2018 she was among the staff of Cardiff Metropolitan University as a lecturer in English after having previously lectured for Cardiff University and the Open University.[1][5] In September 2018 she was appointed Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow, the first time the term “fantasy” has ever been used in an academic post title in the UK.[2] In the summer of 2020 she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature.

Fimi has contributed chapters in A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (Blackwell, 2014), and Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: A Subcreation Studies Anthology (Routledge, 2016). She is a member of The Tolkien Society and has written articles for the magazines and websites including Times Literary Supplement (TLS) and The Conversation; she appears regularly on BBC Radio Wales.[6]

In September 2020 she was appointed Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow.[7]

Tolkien and race
Further information: Tolkien and race, Orc, and Harad

Her doctoral thesis on the vexed[8] issue of Tolkien and race was published as the monograph Tolkien, Race and Cultural History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies in 2010 in addition to being shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award. With Andrew Higgins she is co-editor of A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (HarperCollins, 2016) which won the Tolkien Society Award for Best Book in 2017. Her other works include Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) which was the runner-up for Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.[9] Fimi lectures on fantasy, children's literature, and medievalism.[3] She was one of the judges of the Wales Book of the Year Award 2017 and was also selected for the Welsh Crucible in 2017.[4] Fimi is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Signum University, an online learning facility.[5]

References
  1. "Profile for Dr Dimitra Fimi - The Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy, Cardiff Metropolitan University". Archived from the original on 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Our staff - Dr Dimitra Fimi". www.gla.ac.uk.
  3. "Dimitra Fimi - Tolkien Gateway". tolkiengateway.net.
  4. "Dimitra Fimi". June 21, 2017.
  5. "Dimitra Fimi".
  6. "Dimitra Fimi". The Conversation.
  7. Core Team Bios: Dr Dimitra Fimi, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
  8. Power, Ed (27 November 2018). "JRR Tolkien's orcs are no more racist than George Lucas's Stormtroopers". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  9. "Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy announced as runner-up for Katharine Briggs Folklore Award". dimitrafimi.com.
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