August 23, 2023
Linda Blaser
Carla Arnell selected an Inkling Fellow for new academic year
Professor of English and Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Carla Arnell was recently chosen to be an Inklings Fellow during the 2023–2024 academic year.
One of an inaugural cohort of Fellows sponsored by a new program at the University of Notre Dame, Arnell will receive funding to develop a new course related to the Inklings and have opportunity to share pedagogical ideas and insights with other Inklings scholars nationwide throughout the year.
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group at the University of Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s that included such notable authors as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. The Inklings Project aims to provide students and professors with new opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions about enduring themes like goodness and evil, joy and pain, heroism and meaning.
Arnell has been collaborating with English and philosophy major Samuel Bickersteth ’24 and fellow scholar Sørina Higgins on an annotated edition of the Inkling Charles Williams’s Arthurian poetry. She has a new book review forthcoming this October in the Journal of lnklings Studies as well as an essay called “Existential Mathematics: Charles Williams’s Arthuriad and the Geometry of Love” forthcoming this December in the new Brepols Press book Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers: Medieval Visions and Their Modern Legacies. This essay was begun as a joint research project with former Richter scholar Jack Farrell ’24, English and philosophy double major.
Arnell also taught a new FIYS course on the Inklings last fall with peer teacher and English major Denzel Marufu ’23.
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