Amy Sturgis, an adjunct instructor for University College, is a finalist in two categories (Best Narrator and Best Fact Article Contibutor) in this year’s Sofanaut Podcasting Awards. Voting is open now at http://www.micropoll.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1118390 and will remain open until Jan. 23. (A complete list of Sturgis’ podcast commentaries, interviews and unabridged dramatic readings is available here.) In addition, she has just agreed to write a new book for Zossima Press tentatively titled The Gothic Imaginations of J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine L’Engle and J.K. Rowling for publication in Spring/Summer 2010.