Events
Development and Humility in Newman and Tolkien
A lecture by Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
When:
February 2, 2026 | 6:30 PM GMT
Chapter:
Thomistic Institute in London
Location:
London Jesuit Centre, Farm St. (114 Mount St, London W1K 3AH)
This lecture is free and open to the public. Reception at 18:30. Lecture begins at 19:00. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Giuseppe Pezzini is Associate Professor in Latin at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he joined in 2021, after five beautiful years of teaching in St Andrews (2016–2021), and research fellowships at Magdalen College Oxford (2013–2015) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2016). He worked as an assistant editor for the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin, and has published especially on Latin language and literature, philosophy of language, and the theory of fiction, ancient and modern. He is the Tolkien Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies, one the founders of the Oxford Tolkien Network, and the author of many publications on Tolkien, including a monograph on Tolkien’s literary ‘theory’ (Cambridge University Press 2025). He is also a member of the Young Academy of Europe, an Associate Member at the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, and has published and curated exhibitions on Oscar Wilde and John Henry Newman (the latter currently on tour in the US).