John Bowers (English) delivered a lecture titled "Tolkien Editing Chaucer" to the Medieval Colloquium at the University of Virginia in October. The presentation was based on his latest research in September recovering from Oxford archives a lost, forgotten book by J. R. R. Tolkien. This was his Clarendon Chaucer student edition which occupies him early in his academic career 1922-28. Though substantially completed, with 160 pages of notes on the 14th-century poet, the edition was never published and the materials vanished into the basement of Oxford University Press. Additionally, Bowers was featured in the Sunday Las Vegas Review-Journal for the lecture series "The Western Literary Canon in Context" recorded and released by The Great Courses.