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name: Sørina Higgins
about: Sørina Higgins earned her PhD in 2021 at Baylor University, where she was a Presidential Scholar, Graduate Writing Consultant, and Teacher of Record. Her dissertation, entitled "From Thaumaturgy to Dramaturgy: Staging Occult Modernism," examined the role of ceremonial magic in modernist theatre, especially in the works of W. B. Yeats, Charles Williams, and Aleister Crowley. Sørina is a faculty member at Signum University, where she served as Chair of the Language &amp; Literature Department from 2014–2019. Prior to her PhD, Sørina earned an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She is currently co-editing a volume on the ethical turn in speculative fiction (with Dr. Brenton Dickieson) and previously edited an academic essay Sørina Higgins earned her PhD in 2021 at Baylor University, where she was a Presidential Scholar, Graduate Writing Consultant, and Teacher of Record. Her dissertation, entitled "From Thaumaturgy to Dramaturgy: Staging Occult Modernism," examined the role of ceremonial magic in modernist theatre, especially in the works of W. B. Yeats, Charles Williams, and Aleister Crowley. Sørina is a faculty member at Signum University, where she served as Chair of the Language &amp; Literature Department from 2014–2019. Prior to her PhD, Sørina earned an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She is currently co-editing a volume on the ethical turn in speculative fiction (with Dr. Brenton Dickieson) and previously edited an academic essay collection on "The Inklings and King Arthur" (Apocryphile Press, December 2017), winner of the 2018 Mythopoeic Society Inklings Scholarship Award. Her scholarship appears or is forthcoming in International Yeats Studies, The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center, The Journal of Inklings Studies, Mythlore, and Penumbra. Outside of academia, Sørina enjoys practicing yoga, playing with her cats, cooking, baking, gardening, weight lifting, dancing, and ranting about the state of the world. ...more