Adult Lecture Series

C. S. Lewis rejected the idea that fairy tales were only for children, reimagining them as stories for all ages. Narnia became a playground for new ideas he explored both through personal experience and as a literary critic.

Dr. Paul Westover has been a professor in BYU’s English Department since 2008. He is the author of a study of literary tourism, Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1760–1850, co-editor of Transatlantic Literature and Author-Love in the Nineteenth Century, and lead editor for two electronic critical editions, William Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes and Dorothy Wordsworth’s Lake District. Westover directs study abroad programs that take students to literary sites in the U.K., including Lewis’s Oxford. For several years, Westover has also served as faculty advisor for BYU’s C. S. Lewis Society and regularly teaches a course dedicated to Lewis’s writings.