Hamish G. D. Williams is a scholar ofclassical reception andfantasy at theUniversity of Groningen. He is known for his 2021 bookTolkien and the Classical World aboutclassical influences onJ. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.

Hamish G. D. Williams gained his PhD at theUniversity of Cape Town in 2017; his thesis was titled "The Typical and Connotative Character ofXeinoi Situations across theApologue: Three Studies in Repetition". He then lectured atLeiden University, moving to theUniversity of Jena as a research fellow in 2019. In 2021 he became a fellow at the Polish Institute for Advanced Studies. Alongside this, in 2020 he joined the faculty at theUniversity of Groningen, where he is a scholar ofclassical reception andfantasy.^[1]

He is known for his 2021 edited collectionTolkien and the Classical World^[2] aboutclassical influences onJ. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.^[3][4][5] He has written research articles onTolkien studies, onclassical reception, and onfantasy literature.^[1][6] His 2023 monographJ.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics^[7] has been welcomed as insightful and well-conceived.^[8]

• Williams, Hamish (2021).The Southern Tide. Ranger.ISBN 978-9492469304. (fiction)
• Williams, Hamish (2023).J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics.Bloomsbury Publishing.ISBN 978-1350241480.

• Williams, Hamish, ed. (2021).Tolkien and the Classical World. Zurich:Walking Tree Publishers.ISBN 978-3-905703-45-0.
• Williams, Hamish; Clare, Ross, eds. (2022).The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception.Liverpool University Press.ISBN 978-1802079227.

• 1988 births
• Academic staff of the University of Groningen
• Classics educators
• Tolkien scholars
• Living people

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