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Janice Liedl

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I'm a professor of history at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

I write a lot about pop culture and history. I co-edited The Hobbit and History and Star Wars and History along with contributing chapters on Carlisle Cullen to Twilight and History (2010) and chapters on women/witches and the government of the wizarding world to Harry Potter and History (2011). I've also published on the relationship of history to Battlestar Galactica and science fiction as a genre. I've also published on parenting and fan reactions to female characters' storylines in Game of Thrones drawing on medieval and early modern historical elements.

I also write conventional histories of people in early modern England. This includes a study of the downfa ...more

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	Star Wars and History by Nancy R. Reagin (editor), Janice Liedl (Goodreads Author) (editor) 3.65 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hobbit and History (Wiley Pop Culture and History Series) by Janice Liedl (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nancy R. Reagin (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love and Death in the Renaissance (Dovehouse Studies in Literature, No. 3) (English and French Edition) by Kenneth R. Bartlett (Editor), Konrad Eisenbichler (Editor), Janice Liedl (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My professional life has run flat-out the last five years but I’m finally taking a somewhat over-due sabbatical break after serving a three-year term as Director of Laurentian’s School of Liberal Arts which was a lesson, in and of itself, due to our institutional “challenges”. Suffice it to say, I’ve done a lot of administrative and pedagogical work since 2019, so I’m enjoying a chance to focus on

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