Tutor information
Gabriel Schenk
Gabriel Schenk teaches fantasy literature at Signum University and is the Projects and Partnerships Manager for Ashinaga UK, a charity that enables orphaned youth to access education.
He completed his D.Phil. at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, in 2014. His thesis analyses depictions of King Arthur, focusing on a period spanning the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries when the figure of Arthur became increasingly protean and multifaceted.
He has taught in Uganda, Poland, Turkey, and across the UK. He is one of the founders and organizers of the Pembroke Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, and works for the Owen Barfield and the P.H. Newby literary estates.
Courses
Explore how works including 'The Chronicles of Narnia' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were written, not in isolation, but in a fellowship of writers (C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield) who met in Oxford to discuss their work.