<strong>Brian Kenna is a PhD student of English Literature at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is currently completing a project on the early work of J. R. R. Tolkien in the contexts of modernism, modernity, and World War I. He teaches in the university’s First-Year English program.</strong>

Brian Kenna

“The Lord of the Rings” as Lodestone: On Dome Karukoski’s “Tolkien”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Beren and Lúthien

The Surprising Evolution of “Beren and Lúthien”

Brian Kenna is a PhD student of English Literature at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is currently completing a project on the early work of J. R. R. Tolkien in the contexts of modernism, modernity, and World War I. He teaches in the university’s First-Year English program.