The editors invite submissions of essays by June 1, 2019 on a wide range of topics related to queerness in Tolkien/Middle-earth Studies.
Topics include but are not limited to: Otherness, the uncanny, the marginalized and oppressed, liminality, the stranger/outsider, monstrous neighbor, genderqueer, homo-eroticism, homo-amory, homosocial continuum, female queerness, female masculinity, queer fandom, queer publics/counter publics, transgender queerness, queer gaze, queer fandoms, film theory, medievalisms, applying theories by Ahmed, Butler, Doty, Halberstam, Lévinas, Pugh, Zizek, etc.
We are seeking a wide range of academic essays from a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including but not limited to:
- Queer medievalisms as well as queer modernisms and queer postmodernisms.
- Intersectional approaches (race and queerness, class and queerness, nationality and queerness, etc.).
- Bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, or trans* readings of Tolkien's or Jackson's texts.
- Bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, or trans* readings of transformative or derivative works that queer Tolkien's or Jackson's texts.
- Reading of non-normative but not clearly marked expressions of gender and sexuality in Tolkien's or Jackson's texts.
June 1, 2019:
Final Drafts (5000 words including MLA 8th style bibliography)
July 2019:
Acceptance/Rejection Letters.
September 2019:
Submission to publisher
Robin Anne Reid
Christopher Vaccaro
Stephen Yandell