The Bright Weavings Academic Panel

Any graduate papers that are submitted to the site will be looked over by one of the members of this academic panel. The papers will either be accepted outright, or sent back to the author for changes, additions or subtractions. This is a semi-refereeing that will guarantee a high standard of work on the site, but publication here will not constitute an academic publication - although it can't hurt your academic resume! Undergraduate papers will be clearly marked as such and accepted as is, if they attain a mark at least equivalent to a B+ (IIi for Brits).

Dr Janeen Webb is a senior lecturer in literature at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She has written and published widely on both speculative fiction and Australian literature and has won a World Fantasy Award for the anthology, Dreaming Down Under."

Dr. Dena Bain Taylor is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Health Sciences Writing Centre at the University of Toronto. She was formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, where for many years she taught courses in science fiction and fantasy. She has published articles on LeGuin, Lafferty, Zelazny, and Kay, and has written a short book on Kay with Prof. Janeen Webb of the Australian Catholic University, which is forthcoming from Nimrod Press in Australia.

Professor Neil Randall is an English professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he teaches and researches multimedia and interface design, rhetorical and semiotic theory, and (when he can sneak it in) fantasy literature. He writes extensively for the computer magazine industry, and uses this point as an excuse for not writing more articles about fantasy literature and, indeed, for not writing fantasy literature - or any other kind of literature - himself. He does fantasize, however, about writing a book critiquing Tolkien's works, and a number of articles on Kay and other fantasists. He will alert BrightWeavings should he realize one of these fantasies.