I'm a writer of literary fiction, composer of classical music, scholar of eighteenth-century dance and early Germanic linguistics. Literature: My novel Outlaws was released in November 2017. I have begun two further works: to wit, The Dwarf’s Head, a “multi-media” novel on the life of Ermanaric, the fourth-century Gothic king; and A Bone to Pick, a satiric novella set in tenth-century Anglo-Saxon England, dealing with a monk’s compromised attempt to buy a bone-relic on behalf of a faltering monastery. Music: I am also a composer of mainly vocal music (song and chamber opera) in a style that has strong ties to music before 1800. I am working on a chamber opera based on the Grimms’ folktale Rumpelstiltskin, and have created a number of Gothic-language songs and orchestral miniatures for my novel in progress The Dwarf’s Head. A two-part a cappella version of one of these songs, “Baris Standiþ,” was recorded by Donna Greenberg (2017), and is the first of a number of musical pieces that will make up the projected CD album Music from The Dwarf’s Head. A few examples of my music can be listened to on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/edmund-fairfax) or on my website. Linguistics: I am keenly interested in early Germanic languages (esp. Gothic and Old English) and blog mostly about aspects of Old English (on my website). I have had published both scholarly articles on elder-futhark runology, as well as Gothic-language translations of children’s stories. I am particularly interested in the literary use of a “constructed” form of English employing words of mainly Germanic origin, either living or resuscitated, or coinages based on the same (cf. the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the linguistic invention of William Barnes). Dance: I was an early-dance consultant for the Toronto-based company Ballet Espressivo 2003-2008, and was appointed Adjunct Professor of Dance at York University (Toronto) in 2005, in recognition of my contribution to early-dance research (The Styles of Eighteenth-Century Ballet 2003). My research into early-ballet technique will ultimately be published in a projected multi-volume work The Technique of Eighteenth-Century Ballet.