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Maria Sachiko Cecire

Associate Professor of Literature , Bard College

Maria Sachiko Cecire is associate professor of literature and director of the Center for Experimental Humanities at Bard College in New York state. She is the author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century (2019).

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Empire of fantasy

By conquering young minds, the writing of J R R Tolkien and C S Lewis worked to recapture a world that was swiftly ebbing away

Maria Sachiko Cecire