Author Archives: Sørina Higgins

About Sørina Higgins

Sørina Higgins is Editor-in-Chief of the Signum University Press. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. Dr. Higgins is currently co-editing a volume on the ethical turn in speculative fiction with Dr. Brenton Dickieson and previously edited an academic essay collection entitled The Inklings and King Arthur. She is also the author of the blog The Oddest Inkling, devoted to a systematic study of Charles Williams’ works. As a creative writer, Sørina has a volume of short stories, A Handful of Hazelnuts, forthcoming from Signum’s own press. Outside of academia, Sørina enjoys practicing yoga, playing with her cats, cooking, baking, podcasting, gardening, dancing, and ranting about the state of the world.

What SUP?

Posted on 25 January 2023 by Sørina Higgins

Dear Readers! As you probably know, in June I took on my new job as Editor-in-Chief of the (then non-existent) Signum University Press, which I’ve been creating from scratch ever since. It’s been an amazing, exhausting, sometimes overwhelming, entirely fulfilling … Continue reading →

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A Confusion of Court Cards

Posted on 18 January 2023 by Sørina Higgins

A while ago, I wrote an introduction to a new edition of CW’s novel The Greater Trumps, then this fall taught a couple classes on it, so I re-read the book more closely than ever. It’s a very, very beautiful … Continue reading →

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A Book of Victorian Narrative Verse

Posted on 11 January 2023 by Sørina Higgins

Here’s another of CW’s editorial efforts for Oxford University Press. It was published in 1927 by Clarendon Press–which was the name for the Oxford branch, while the London branch was (confusingly) called Oxford University Press. Further confusion is introduced, at … Continue reading →

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Was Charles Williams an Anthroposophist? An Interview with Owen Barfield’s Grandson

Posted on 4 January 2023 by Sørina Higgins

A Guest Post by G. Connor Salter G. Connor Salter has a Bachelor of Science in Professional Writing from Taylor University. He has presented on the Inklings to Inkling Folk Fellowship, and contributed his thoughts to Mythlore, A Pilgrim in Narnia, Fellowship … Continue reading →

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Ghosts & Clairvoyants Galore: Notes on Endings to Edwin Drood

Posted on 28 December 2022 by Sørina Higgins

In 1870, the great novelist Charles Dickens was fifty-eight years old and quite ill, having suffered a stroke the previous year. Nevertheless, he began work on a new novel and arranged for it to be published serially by Chapman & … Continue reading →

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CW’s Nativity Plays

Posted on 21 December 2022 by Sørina Higgins

Although Charles Williams is known more for obscurity and difficulty than for compelling drama, he was capable of the latter, and wrote a few “unusually intelligible” Nativity plays. These include Seed of Adam (1936), The Death of Good Fortune (1939), … Continue reading →

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The Masque of the Mischievous

Posted on 14 December 2022 by Sørina Higgins

In case you’ve been wondering what I’m up to and why I haven’t been posting even though I finished my PhD a year ago, here’s an update! Last spring, Corey Olsen (The Tolkien Professor, President of Signum University) tasked me … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Gardeners of the Galaxies: How Imaginary Worlds Teach Us to Care for This One” by Sørina Higgins and Brenton Dickieson (Academic Deadline Extended to May 30th)

Posted on 20 May 2022 by Sørina Higgins

Originally posted on A Pilgrim in Narnia:
I am about to talk about gardening while my own garden is suffering from busy-related neglect. Even my little seedlings, planted with plenty of time for our last frost day (usually about June…

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A Strange Bugle Call

Posted on 15 May 2022 by Sørina Higgins

Originally posted on The Oddest Inkling:
On this day in 1945, Charles Williams died suddenly. C.S. Lewis wrote this little poem out of his grief: Your death blows a strange bugle call, friend, and all is hard To see plainly…

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Christian Symbolism

Posted on 11 May 2022 by Sørina Higgins

Here’s an odd little item for your contemplation: Christian Symbolism, supposedly written by “Michal” Williams. ‘Michal’ is the somewhat unflattering nickname CW gave to his wife Florence, but which stuck so hard she even chose it as her nom de … Continue reading →

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