Website: www.dimitrafimi.com
Education
PhD English Literature, Cardiff University, December
2005
MA in Early Celtic Studies, Cardiff University, September
2002
BA in English Language and Literature, University of Athens,
Greece, September 2000
Current Position
Lecturer in English, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
(UWIC)
Previous Positions
Associate Lecturer, Open University
Associate Lecturer, Cardiff
University
Publications
I. Book
(2008), Tolkien, Race and
Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan)
II. Articles
(2006) “’Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay’:
Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien”,
Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature
and Drama, 2, pp. 10-26 (at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/working_with_english/Fimi_31_05_06.pdf)
(2006) “’Mad Elves’ and ‘Elusive Beauty’: Some Celtic Strands of
Tolkien’s Mythology”, Folklore, 117:2, pp. 156-170
(2007) “Tolkien’s ‘“Celtic” type of legends’: Merging Traditions”,
Tolkien Studies, 4, pp. 51-71
(2007) “Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in
Material Culture”, in Clark, David and Phelpstead, Carl (eds),
Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of
Old Norse Literature and Culture (London: Viking Society for
Northern Research)
III. Reference
(2006) “Victorian Fairyology” (pp.186-7) and “Greece: Reception of
Tolkien” (pp. 257-8), in Drout, Michael (ed.), The J.R.R.
Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (New
York: Routledge)
(2008) “Unfinished
Tales”, under Works by J.R.R. Tolkien, in Clark, Robert (ed.),
The Literary Encyclopedia at http://www.litencyc.com/
(2008) “Peter
and Wendy”, “The
Little White Bird” and “Peter
Pan in Kensington Gardens”, under Works by J. M. Barrie, in
Clark, Robert (ed.), The Literary Encyclopedia at http://www.litencyc.com/
(2008), “Ursula Le Guin”, biographical profile in Clark, Robert (ed.), The Literary Encyclopedia at http://www.litencyc.com/