Megan Fontenot
Brittain Fellow
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Email Address: mfontenot7@gatech.edu
Overview
Personal Pronouns:
she/herMegan N. Fontenot is a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature with specific foci on women’s writing, the Scottish Highlands, space and place, and gender expression and performance. She maintains a special interest in author Mathilde Blind and has also published on the life and works of twentieth-century author J.R.R. Tolkien. Fontenot’s current projects include a substantial revision of her doctoral dissertation; a chapter on Tolkien and imperialism for a forthcoming handbook; a literary encyclopedia entry for Mathilde Blind; and an article on space, nationality, and gender in Margaret Oliphant’s Kirsteen.
Education:
- PhD, University of Georgia, 2024
- MA, Michigan State University, 2019
- BA, Milligan University, 2016
Awards and
Distinctions:
Distinctions:
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia, 2023
- Christy Desmet Award, University of Georgia, 2022
- Robert Park Essay Award, University of Georgia, 2021
- Alexei Kondratiev Award, Mythopoeic Society, 2018
- Ivor Jones Outstanding Senior Award, Milligan University, 2017
Interests
Research Fields:
- Climate Change Mitigation
- Cultural and Ethical Awareness
- Digital Media
- Education Policy
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Europe - United Kingdom
Issues:
- Environment
- Gender
- Race/Ethnicity
- Aestheticism
- Aesthetics
- Aesthetics and Technology
- Assessment
- Autism
- Cross-Cultural Engagement
- Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Digital and Mixed Media
- Disability
- Education
- Feminism
- Future of the Liberal Arts
- Globalization and Localization
- Heritage Language Learning
- Higher Education: Teaching and Learning
- Inequality and Poverty
- Inequality, Inequity, and Social Justice
- Journalism
- Literary Theory
- Literature
- Poetry
- Post-Colonialism
- Privacy
- Queer Studies
- Science Fiction
- Social Movements
- Sustainability
- Women’s Leadership
- World Literature
Courses
- ENGL-1101: English Composition I
- ENGL-1102: English Composition II
Publications
Journal Articles
- The Art of Eternal Disaster: Tolkien's Apocalypse and the Road to Healing
In: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2019
- 'No Pagan ever loved his god': Tolkien, Francis Thompson, and the Beautification of the Gods
In: Mythlore [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018