Anna Vaninskaya is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is known as a Tolkien scholar and has published on William Morris and other Victorian era and 20th century writers. She has contributed to the Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.
She has won the 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award[1] and the 2021 Mythopoeic Society's award for Mythopoeic Scholarship.[2]