Rolland Hein
Rolland Hein is Emeritus Professor of English at Wheaton College, where he continues
to teach courses in mythopoeia. Among his writings are
The Harmony Within:
The Spiritual Vision of George MacDonald, George MacDonald: Victorian
Mythmaker and
Christian Mythmakers (Cornerstone Press, Revised Edition,
2002). He and his wife Dorothy live near St. Charles, Illinois, where he
pursues his horticultural interests.
Paul Leggett
Paul Leggett is pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Montclair, New Jersey.
He's also served churches in Philadelphia and worked for eight years in
mission work, four of which he spent teaching at the Latin American Biblical
Seminary in San Jose, Costa Rica. He have been interested in fantasy and
supernatural films his whole life, having lectured on film at Vassar College
and written numerous articles on the subject (in both English and Spanish).
His book
Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion was published in
2001 on McFarland & Company.
Rod Bennett
First, there was Wonder magazine, a loving tribute to monster movies,
science fiction, Ray Bradbury, Frank Capra, and C.S. Lewis, with sidetrips to
roadside attractions like Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not Museums, a history of
Miniature golf, and a back page "column" every issue by G.K. Chesterton.
After we saw Wonder, we created the Cornerstone Festival
"Imaginarium". Rod was in on that first Imaginarium and has been a part of
the team ever since, contributing lectures with titles like "God's Haunted
House" and "King Kong Died For Your Sins," teaching us how to apply that
Chestertonian sense of wonder and wry cultural criticism to such things as
monster movies and tv.
Terry Wandtke
Specializing in Modern literature, film, and popular culture studies,
Terrence Wandtke teaches literature and composition at St. Louis University.
Since its inception, he has been involved with the St. Louis International
Film Festival's Interfaith Award and organized the St. Louis Faith and Film
Conference. He is currently writing a book about the poetry and film work of
Modernist author, H.D.
Mike Foster
Mike Foster is a professor of English at Illinois Central College in East
Peoria. His speciality is English fantasy literature, especially J. R. R.
Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. M. Barrie. Prof. Foster has studied manuscripts
of Tolkien at Marquette University in Milwaukee and at the Bodleian in
Oxford. He has also studied the letters of Lewis and Tolkien at the Wade
Center at Wheaton College. He has presented and published papers on those
studies at various conferences in the United States and England. Mike is the
North American representative to the Tolkien society (Great Britain) since
1995, and was elected to the board of directors of the American Chesterton Society in 1997.
