Marilyn R. Pukkila served for 35 years as Research & Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences and Humanities at the Colby College Libraries, where she also taught courses on J.R.R. Tolkien, women in myth and fairy tale, contemporary Witchcraft, and religious responses to Harry Potter. Her interests include information fluency and library instruction, ethnographic methods of studying students and faculty, Tolkien Studies, and Pagan scholarship.