Professors

All Special Guests Guest Lecturers The Board Faculty Staff

Amy H. Sturgis

Lecturer

Amy H. Sturgis earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from Vanderbilt University and specializes in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Gothic and Indigenous American Studies. She serves as contributing staff for the Hugo Award-winning StarShipSofa podcast and Editor in Chief for Hocus Pocus Comics. Dr. Sturgis is the author of four books and over sixty essays; her published works have […]

Amy Troolin

Writer's Forge Administrator; Writer's Forge Tutor

Amy Troolin is a writer, reader, historian, musician, genealogist, and teacher. She is administrator of the Signum Writer's Forge program.

Andrew Higgins

At-Large Board Member; Lecturer

Dr, Andrew Higgins - Inaugural Student of The Mythgard Institute, board member and new lecturer.

Brenton Dickieson

Lecturer; Preceptor

Brenton Dickieson is a lecturer and preceptor in the Language & Literature Department.

Carl Edlund Anderson

Lecturer; Preceptor

Carl Edlund Anderson holds an A.B. in Folklore & Mythology from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic) at the University of Cambridge. His academic publications have treated Germanic philology, Colombian minority languages and cultures, and content and language integrated learning (CLIL).

Chad Andrews

Lecturer

Chad Andrews is a teacher and researcher with a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies. He is interested in conjunctures of popular culture, technology, and hegemony that emerged in postwar America, with particular attention paid to the interplay between popular fantasies and structures of power. To explore these links, his writing and teaching engage with history, focusing on […]

Corey Olsen

University President; Board Member Ex Officio; Lecturer

Corey Olsen is president of Signum University. He brings his scholarship on Tolkien to the public, seeking to engage a wide and diverse audience in serious intellectual and literary conversation though his podcast, The Tolkien Professor.

Curtis A. Weyant

Dean of Outreach; Strategy Council; Website System; Social Media System; Mythgard Movie Club Host

Curtis A. Weyant is a digital marketing specialist and who leads the Website Team at Signum University and oversees the University's Twitter accounts.

Denise Dolan

Librarian; Writer's Forge Tutor

Denise is a librarian, who loves questions of all kinds and specializes in writing and literary research. She also creates and maintains the library's webpages.

Diana Glyer

Diana Pavlac Glyer is an award-winning writer who has spent more than 40 years combing through archives and studying old manuscripts.