- King's College London, Department of French, Alumnusadd
- Music, English Literature, Critical Theory, American Literature, Science Fiction, Children's Literature & Culture, and 13 moreJ. R. R. Tolkien, Post Modern Literature, Fantasy (Film Studies), Education, Media, Fantastic Literature, Ursula K. Le Guin, Popular Culture, Literary Theory, Fantasy Literature, Fantasy Fiction, Traditional Crafts, and Narrativeedit
- Dr Aga J. Drenda is a fantasy critic who specialises in fantastic narratology and the contemporary fantasy genre. She has received an MA in Critical Methodologies from King’s College London (2007) and a PhD in Fantasy Literature from Anglia Ruskin University (2017). The latter focused on fictional magic and world-building in fantasy literature published from 1970 to 2010, and she is currently working on a subseque... moreDr Aga J. Drenda is a fantasy critic who specialises in fantastic narratology and the contemporary fantasy genre. She has received an MA in Critical Methodologies from King’s College London (2007) and a PhD in Fantasy Literature from Anglia Ruskin University (2017). The latter focused on fictional magic and world-building in fantasy literature published from 1970 to 2010, and she is currently working on a subsequent academic book The Anatomy of Magic.
Aga is a reviewer, editor, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP). She is Books Editor at Fantasy-Animation.org and has previously taught Media, Popular Culture, and Publishing at Middlesex University (2009–2019).edit
A review of Call and Response by Paul Kincaid.
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A review of Cowan, Douglas E. Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture. U of California P, 2019. ISBN 978-0520293991.
