The Signum Scene

This episode contains my conversation with Stacy Aannestad about her novel: Flight: the Den-Aronel Chronicles in the Signum University Collaboratory. I also report on two new works that have entered…

This recording from September 1, 2025.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Bronwyn Rivera on Monday, September 1, 2025 at 11 am ET.

From psychology to film theory, ecocriticism to posthu…

This recording from August 13, 2025.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Grace Bennett on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 3pm ET.

This thesis challenges the reductionistic narrative that C…

This recording from August 6, 2025

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Sarah Shahan Polo on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 1pm ET.

This thesis explores the complex relationship between J.R…

This episode contains an interview with author and Academic Submissions Coordinator Dr Julian Barr. Julian has a middle grade novel called Rebel Seers: Beyond the Ashlands up in the collaboratory an…

This recording from June 4, 2025.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Jeffrey Wade on Thursday, June 4, 2025 at 5pm ET.

This thesis concerns itself with the question of whether the inhab…

This recording from May 30, 2025.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Father Andrew Damick on Friday, May 30, 2025 at 2pm ET.

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, particularly…

This recording from May 24, 2025.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Sarah Monnier on Friday, May 24, 2025 at 9am ET.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Classics, which gen…

This episode contains an interview with author Brad Patty, whose novel Arms and White Samite is posted in the fiction submission hall of the Circulation Library. WE also update new things added to t…

In this episode of the Storyweb, host Christopher Bartlett takes the listeners on a tour of what is already in the Fiction Hall of the Signum University Collaboratory’s circulation library. He gives…

This recording from May 7, 2025.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Kimberly McKinney on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 10am ET.

J. R. R. Tolkien’s tales about Middle-earth were designed to …

In this inaugural episode of the Storyweb series, Christopher Bartlett interviews Sparrow Alden about her history and process as a writer. They discuss A Flash of Wings, Sparrow’s anthology of flash…

Introducing Storyweb, a new series of chats with authors and creators from the Signum Plaza.

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This recording from November 1, 2024.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Jay Moses on Saturday, November 1, 2024 at 5pm ET.

M.R. James was recognized and acclaimed for his short stories…

This recording from September 28, 2024.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Peter DeVault on Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 10am ET.

Modern metrical analysis of Germanic alliterative po…

This recording from September 9, 2024.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Julia Stowe on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at 10am ET.

The concepts of time and eternity, and the words that a…

This recording from August 10, 2024.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Robert Black on Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 4pm ET.

This paper proposes to compare once again the heroes Beowulf…

This recording from July 13, 2024.

Signum University presents Thesis Theater with Celesta Clegg on Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 5pm ET.

Germanic reworkings of Genesis material present a glimpse into…

This recording from May 7, 2024.

Signum University Graduate School presents Thesis Theater with Trevor Brierly on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 2pm ET, on the subject of Tolkien's "Vision of Faërie" in "S…