The Signum Scene

This recording from May 10, 2024.

Signum University Graduate School presents Thesis Theater with Shannon Choudhari on Tuesday, May 10, 2024 at 5pm ET.

“I wonder what you’ve been up to?”: The Notion…

This recording from April 11, 2024.

Signum MA student Timothy Francis will present his thesis “Administrative Art as Genre in Kafka, Tooker, and Ravn” and respond to questions from the audience in a…

This recording from April 5, 2024.

Abstract
J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth has long been praised for its sense of depth, but Tolkien’s creation has often been criticized, especially by Marxist crit…

This recording from March 22, 2024.

Abstract
Dark Academia (DA), as a genre, is an offshoot of academic fiction that has become prominent over the last decade. After defining DA and exploring its ro…

This recording is from Signum University Annual Fundraising Webathon, December 9, 2023. If you want to watch the recordings of the full event, check the 2023 Fundraising campaign playlist here. • …

This recording from October 6, 2023.

Signum MA student Kira Tregoning will present her thesis “More Complicated Than They Seem: The Semantic and Contextual Meaning of Homeric Epithets” and respond t…

This recording from August 1st, 2023.

Signum MA student Gina Petrone will present her thesis “‘Let Me In!’ Vampirism in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights” and respond to questions from the audience i…

This recording from July 30, 2023.

Signum MA student Patrick Lyon will present his thesis “Merry Old Englyn: The Familiar and the Strange in The Old English Rhyming Poem” and respond to questions fr…

This recording from July 29, 2023.

Signum MA student Christoph Schabert will present his thesis “Mágus saga jarls: A Digital Edition” and respond to questions from the audience in an interactive The…

Find out about the new courses offered at Signum University this coming Summer Term (May 1 – July 30) and meet the professors who will be teaching them! Representatives from the courses will be on ha…

Thesis Theater: Jennifer Ewing, “The Promises to the Overcomer”

This recording from April 3rd, 2023.

Signum MA student Jennifer Ewing will present her thesis “The Promises to the Overcomer: The Gif…

This recording from December 1, 2022.

Find out about the new courses offered at Signum University this coming Spring Term (January 9 – April 2) and meet the professors who will be teaching them! Re…

This is Part 1 of the separate recordings from The 2022 Fall Fundraising Campaign Finale, recorded on November 19, 2022.

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This recording from September 5, 2022.

Signum MA student Nadia Schafer will present her thesis “One Strange (s) Elf: Deep Ecology, Decolonization and the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf ” and res…

This recording from August 25, 2022.

Find out about the new courses offered at Signum University this coming Fall Term (August 29 – November 20) and meet the professors who will be teaching them! Re…

Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, "Sub-creation Through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium"

This recording from June 1, 2022.

Signum MA student Jacob R. Schreiner will present his thesis “The L…

Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, "Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien's Epic of War"

This recording from May 26, 2022.

Signum MA student Miriam Davidson will present her thesis “The Sword Not for…

Thesis Theater: Emily Austin, "The Road Gives Ever On: the Road Motif in Lord of the Rings"

This recording from May 21, 2022.

Signum MA student Emily Austin will present her thesis “The Road Gives …

Thesis Theater: Taylor Johnson Guinan, "Ventures into the Land of the Dead in Children's Literature”

This recording from May 7, 2022.

Signum MA student Taylor Johnson Guinan will present her thesis…

This recording from April 22, 2022.

Find out about the new courses offered at Signum University this coming Summer Term (May 2 – July 31) and meet the professors who will be teaching them! Represent…