Dimitra Fimi

Dr. Dimitra Fimi (born 2 June 1978) is an academic and writer and the Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales.[1] She is an authority on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and childrens's fantasy literature.[2]

From Salamis Island in the Attica Region of Greece, 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.[3] She joined the staff of Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2009 as a Lecturer in English after having previously lectured for Cardiff University and the Open University.[1][4] Her doctoral thesis 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.[5] Fimi lectures on fantasy, children's literature, and medievalism.[2] 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.[3] Fimi is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Signum University, an online learning facility.[4]

Fimi's other recent work includes chapters in A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (Blackwell, 2014), and Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: An Subcreation Studies Anthology (Routledge, 2016). She has contributed articles for the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) and The Conversation among many others and appears regularly on BBC Radio Wales.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Profile for Dr Dimitra Fimi - The Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy, Cardiff Metropolitan University
  2. 1 2 Dimitra Fimi - Tolkien Gateway website
  3. 1 2 Dimitra Fimi's Profile - Welsh Crucible website
  4. 1 2 Profile for Dimitra Fimi - Signum University website
  5. ↑ Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy announced as runner-up for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award - Dr Dimitra Fimi's website
  6. ↑ Dimitra Fimi Profile - The Conversation website
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