Gabriel Schenk is an Associate Tutor at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education and a lecturer at Signum University. He teaches courses on the Inklings, Arthurian Literature, and Fantasy Literature.
He is the co-founder, and one of the current organisers, of the annual J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford (est. 2013). He also helped create the memorial plaque to J.R.R. Tolkien at Pembroke, which was unveiled in 2024. Previously, he completed his DPhil in Arthurian Literature at Pembroke.
Since 2011 he has worked for the Owen Barfield Literary Estate, building and then maintaining the estate’s website and helping publish new Barfield books.
His speaking engagements include delivering one of the Oxford Tolkien Seminars in 2025 and papers at the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society (in 2016 and 2025). His YouTube channel includes videos on authors and the places that inspired them.
Tolkien-Related Publications
(2024) “A Jumble of Unrelated Mythologies? Cohesion and Consistency in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Hobbit” in The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imaginations, eds Łukasz Neubauer and Guglielmo Spirito (Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree).
