An Observation

[jsburbidge]

 I see that Laurentian wants to be "the Oxford of the North" by teaching courses about the Inklings.

 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/laurentian-university-tolkien-lewis-the-inklings-oxford-university-1.5396083 )

 

Let me only note, as somebody who absorbed a great deal about both Lewis and Tolkien over the years (the article doesn't mention Williams) that if you really want to be like the Oxford of the 1940s, and particularly want to emulate what the Inklings found important - not necessarily an unmixed blessing, and Tolkien in particular was known as a dull lecturer - you don't want to be teaching Twentieth-Century speculative fiction. You want to be teaching Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse, mediaeval romances (not in translation, and that includes Middle French), Renaissance literature, and Milton.