Personal Presentations & Publications
CV sections adapted for online
NOTE: This post is not really a "readable" post (in the sense I cannot imagine anybody wanting to read it) because it's adapted from my academic resume (aka: a curriculum vitae, CV, because academics gonna academic) and is basically an organized list of my publications and presentations. So it's a resource (and I bet I find it easier to update when it's online especially since I don't have to keep documenting "teaching" and "service" which I did before I retired) that I find useful to have handy because I don't remember dates!
The majority of publications are print (and thus paywalled) (because academia, publish or perish, etc.) but the ones that are open-access contain links. And I am shifting to almost entirely open-access (when I choose a journal to publish in; sometimes friends bounce into view and ask for me to do something for one of their projects, and wave fun titles/topics in front of me).
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ROBIN ANNE REID robinareid A fastmail.com EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Washington, December 1992 M.A. Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 1984 M.A. Western Washington University (Creative Writing/Poetry), 1981 B.A. Western Washington University, 1979
BOOKS Queer Approaches to Tolkien: Essays on the Many Paths to Middle-earth. Co-edited with Christopher Vaccaro and Stephen Yandell. Forthcoming 2026. Race, Racisms, and Racists: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium, Adaptations, and Readers (working title), editor. Forthcoming 2026. Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. Co-edited with John Wm. Houghton, Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, and John D. Rateliff, McFarland, 2014. The Encyclopedia of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Greenwood, 2008. Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion. Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers Series. Greenwood P, 2000. Arthur C. Clarke: A Critical Companion. Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers Series. Greenwood P, 1997. EDITED JOURNALS Authorizing Tolkien: Control, Adaptation, and Dissemination of J. R. R. Tolkien's Works. Co-edited with Michael D. Elam, Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 3, iss 3, 2016. scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol3/iss3/ Race and Ethnicity in Fandom. Co-edited with Sarah N. Gatson. Half of double-guest edited issue for Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 8, 2011. journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/9 ESSAYS & CHAPTERS "'Within Bounds That He Has Set': A Stylistic Analysis of Cities and Strongholds in The Lord of the Rings," Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium, edited by Cami Agan. Mythopoeic Press, 2024. "Making or Creating Orcs: How Thorinsmut's Free Orcs AU Writes Back to Tolkien," Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 11, iss. 2, article 3. 2020. "The History of Scholarship on Lois McMaster Bujold's Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Feminist Bibliographic Essay," Biology & Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold, edited by Regina Yung Lee and Una McCormack, Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 13-31. "The Holy Family: Divine Queerness in The Curse of Chalion and The Hollowed Hunt," Biology & Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold, edited by Regina Yung Lee and Una McCormack, Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 209-227. "On the Shoulders of Gi(E)nts: The Joys of Bibliographic Scholarship and Fanzines in Tolkien Studies," Mythlore, vol. 37, no. 2, article 3, pp. 23-38. "The Queer Phenomenology of Ann Leckie's Worldbuilding in the Imperial Radch Series," Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern, vol VII, Worldbuilding in the Fantastic, 2017, pp. 61-77. "Race in Tolkien Studies: A Bibliographic Essay," Tolkien and Alterity, edited by Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor, Palgrave, 2017, pp. 33-74. "Writing a Life: The Stylistics of Ray Bradbury's Autobiographical Novels," Critical Insights: Ray Bradbury, ed. Rafeeq McGiveron, Salem, 2017, pp. 137-162. "Bending Culture: Racebending.com's Protests against Media Whitewashing," Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction, edited by Isiah Lavender III, U of Mississippi P, 2017, pp. 189-203. "'[T]hings That Were, and Things That Are, and Things That Yet May Be': Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Online," with Judy Ann Ford. Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, ed. Leslie A. Donovan. The Modern Language Association of America. Approaches to Teaching World Literatures Series, 2015, pp. 214-18. Finalist for the 2017 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. "Reading the Man in the Moon: An Intersectional Analysis of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," Critical Insights: Robert A. Heinlein, ed. Rafeeq O. McGiveron, Salem, 2015, pp. 55-69. "The Authenticity of Intersectionality in Nicola Griffith's Hild," The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre, edited by Helen Young. Cambria, 2015, pp. 75-90. "The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium: A Feminist Bibliographic Essay," Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan, Mythopoeic P, 2015, pp. 13-40. "'The Wild Unicorn Herd Check-In': Reflexive Racialisation in Online Science Fiction Fandom," Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction, ed. Isiah Lavender III, U of Mississippi P, 2014, pp. 225-240. "Polytemporality and Epic Characterization in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Reflecting The Lord of the Ring's Modernism and Medievalism," with Judy Ann Ford. The Hobbit in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the Novel's Influence on the Later Writings, edited by Bradford Lee Eden, McFarland, 2014, pp. 208-221. "Genre, Censorship, and Cultural Changes: Critical Reception of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451," Critical Insights: Fahrenheit 451, edited by Rafeeq McGiveron, Salem P, 2014, pp. 37-49. "Light (noun, 1) or Light (adjective, 14b)?: Female Bodies and Femininities in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings," The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality, edited by Christopher Vaccaro, McFarland, 2013, pp. 98-118. "Remaking Texts, Remodeling Scholarship" in Remake/Remodel: Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions, edited by Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis, Palgrave, 2012, pp. 179-196. "Into the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters?" with Judy Ann Ford. Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy, edited by Janice Bogstad and Philip Kaveny. McFarland, 2011, pp. 169-182. "Mythology and History: A Stylistic Analysis of The Lord of the Rings," Style, vol. 43, no. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 517-538. "Thrusts in the Dark: Slashers' Queer Practices," Extrapolation, vol. 50, no. 3, Fall 2009 pp. 463-483. "Councils and Kings: Aragorn's Journey Towards Kingship in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings," With Judy Ann Ford. Tolkien Studies, vol. VI, 2009, pp. 71-90. "'Yearning Void and Infinite Potential': Online Slash Fandom as Queer Female Space," with Alexis Lothian and Kristina Busse. English Language Notes. Queer Space Special Issue, ed. by Jane Garrity, vol. 45, iss. 2, Fall/Winter 2007, pp. 103-111. A collaborative experiment in a note format (rather than formal essay) that in online at LiveJournal in its full version; the cut version is in the print journal. "'Tree and flower, leaf and grass': The Grammar of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings," Fantasy Fiction into Film, edited by. Leslie Stratyner and James R. Keller, McFarland, 2007, pp. 35-54. "Breaking of the Fellowship: Competing Discourses of Archives and Canons in The Lord of the Rings Internet Fandom," How We Became Middle Earth, edited by Adam Lam and Nataliya Oryshchuk, Walking Tree, 2007, pp. 347-370. "Cunning Linguists: The Bisexual Erotics of Words / Silence / Flesh," with Eden Lee Lackner and Barbara Lynn Lucas, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, McFarland, 2006, pp. 189-206. "Tolkien's Book and Jackson's Film: Adaptation, Substitution, Translation or Desecration?" Arizona English Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 2, 2003, pp. 3-10. "Borderlands Theory and Science Fiction," The SFRA Review, no. 250, Jan/Feb 2001, p. 10. "Lost in Space Between 'Center' and 'Margin.'" Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds, edited by Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner, New York UP, 1994, pp. 343-357. "Constructing Sites/Sights of Resistance: Inserting Different Discourses of 'Race' and 'Ethnicity' into Feminism," Diversity: A Journal of Multicultural Issues, vol. I, no. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 29-56. EDITOR REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS "How Queer Atheists, Agnostics, and Animists Engage with Tolkien's Legendarium," Tolkien and Diversity: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021, The Tolkien Society, edited by Will Sherwood, Peter Roe Series XXII, Luna Press, 2023, pp. 52-85. "From Beowulf to Post-modernism: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching of J .R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings," With Judy Ann Ford. The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference Celebrating 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings, edited by Sarah Wells, Tolkien Society, 2008, pp. 106-111. "'Momutes': Momentary Utopias in Tepper's Trilogies," The Utopian Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, edited by Martha Bartter, Praeger, 2004, pp. 101-108. EDITOR REVIEWED BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS "Tolkien's Literary Theory and Practice," in "The Year's Work on Tolkien Studies 2018," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 20, 2021, pp. 297-305. "Tolkien's Literary Theory and Practice," in "The Year's Work on Tolkien Studies 2017," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 19, 2020, pp. 282-88. "Tolkien's Literary Theory and Practice," in "The Year's Work on Tolkien Studies 2016," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 18, 2019, pp. 211-16. "Tolkien's Literary Theory," in "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2015," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 15, 2018, pp. 301-307 "General Criticism: The Hobbit," in "The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2014," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 14, 2017, pp. 229-233. "Tolkien's Literary Theory and Practice," in "The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2014," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 14, 2017, pp. 240-247. "Philology and Language Studies: Tolkien’s Use of English," in "The Year in Tolkien Studies 2013," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 283–290. "Tolkien’s Literary Theory and Practice," in "The Year in Tolkien Studies 2013," edited by David Bratman. Tolkien Studies, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 242–257. EDITOR REVIEWED "NOTES" & "COMPANIONS TO" "'Perilous and Fair' in 'A Bleak, Barren Land': A Feminist Responds to Dylan Lee Henderson’s Essay," Mythlore, vol. 43, no. 2, article 19, 2025, pp. 253-269. The Online Supplement, Writing from Ithilien, 2025. “Chapter 17: Anglophone Science Fiction Fandoms, 1920s-2020s.” The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2024, pp. 147-54. "Chapter 13, 'I Came for the 'Pew-Pew Space Battles'; I Stayed for the Autism: Martha Wells' Murderbot," The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, edited by Sonja Fritzsche, Keren Omry, Wendy Pearson, and Lisa Yaszek, Routledge, 2023, pp. 95-101. "A Queer Atheist Feminist Autist Responds to Donald Williams's "Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged 'Conflicting Sides' of Tolkien's Singular Self"," Note, Mythlore, 2022, vol. 40, no. 2, article 14. "Melissa Scott," Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture, edited by Anna McFarlane, Graham J. Murphy, and Lars Schmeink, Routledge, 2022, pp. 179-184. "The White Elephant in the Room: Lois McMaster Bujold's Participation in Racefail '09," Short But Concentrated: An Essay Symposium on the Works of Lois McMaster Bujold, eds. Una McCormack and Regina Yung Lee, Fifth Storey Press, Chapter 3. "Celebrating 'Queer Lodgings.'" Note, Mallorn, iss. 61, Winter 2020. pp. 31-31. “Chapter 21: Fan Studies.” The Routledge Companion to Sciencd Fiction, edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint. Routledge, 2009, pp. 204-13. REVIEWS Review, Tolkien Among the Moderns, edited by Ralph C. Wood, Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 6, iss. 1, article 2, 2018. Review, The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture, edited by Elyce Ray Helford, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, and Michael R. Howard II. Science Fiction Film and Television, vol 11, iss. 2, 2018, pp. 341-6. Review, Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages, edited by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers. Tolkien Studies, vol. 4, Spring 2007, pp. 314-323. Review, "J.R.R. Tolkien Special Issue," Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies, guest edited by Shaun F. Hughes. Tolkien Studies, vol. 3, Spring 2006, pp. 178-182. Review, "Three Greenhaven Press Books (Readings on J.R.R. Tolkien; Readings on Fahrenheit 451; Readings on Frankenstein)," Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 12, iss. 1, no. 45, 2001, pp. 126-131. Review, Sherri Tepper's The Fresco, The SFRA Review, no. 253, July/Aug 2001, p. 30. Review Essay: "New Feminist Cultural Criticism," Science Fiction Studies, vol. 27, no. 81, part 2, July 2000. Review Essay: "Feminism, Gender and Science Fiction," The SFRA Review, #235/236, August/October 1998, pp. 10-12. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES "Ray Bradbury," Popular Contemporary Writers, vol. 2, edited by Michael D. Sharp, Marshall Cavendish, 2005. "Charles de Lint," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 251: Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers, edited by Douglas Ivison, Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002, pp. 49-60. ONLINE ESSAYS "Writing Against the Grain: T. Kingfisher's Feminist Mythopoeic Fantasy," File 770, Aug. 4, 2021. "Melissa Scott’s Invisible Worlds," Glasgow In 2024. June 28. 2021. "Visiting Middle-earth," File 770, July 5, 2018. "Sheri S. Tepper," File 770, Jan. 2, 2017. GRANTS External Co-director, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for School Teachers. "J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Real and the Imagined Middle Ages" with Judy Ann Ford. $175,395. Summer II 2009. Co-director, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for School Teachers, "From Beowulf to Post-Modernism: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" with Judy Ann Ford. $138,000. Summer II 2004. Internal 2009 Research Enhancement Grant $4500 The Fan Fiction Reader 2007 Research Enhancement Grant $4,738 Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia, published 2008, Greenwood P. CREATIVE WRITING Poetry "Rock Roses. "The Mayo Review. Texas A&M University-Commerce. 2008. "Fireflies and Spidersilk." Cereberation, 2007. "January 29, 2000." New Texas 2001, edited by Donna Walker-Nixon and James Ward Lee. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. "Texas Victorian Wedding Story." New Texas '99, edited by Donna Walker-Nixon and James Ward Lee. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. "Wings and Stone." Western Ohio Journal IX-1 Spring 1988. "Taking Pictures." cold drill, Spring 1988. "Song." Boise Statesman, Fall 1987. "Old Woman." Root Weave, Fall 1985. "Montana Camping Trip." passaic review, #7/8. "Ancestral Determination." The Panhandler, #14, Fall 1984. "A Matter of Survival." "Northwest Magazine," Portland Oregonian, Summer 1984. "Fall Haiku" and "Holly Haiku." Piedmont Literary Review, vol. VIII, no. 4, 1984. "A Sheep and Horse Man," Poetry Today, December 1983. "Different Feelings." Kwani #1, Fall 1982. "Bus Trip." Another Small Magazine, I-2, Spring 1982. "Turning of the Season," Poetry Seattle, May, 1982. Plays Produced Patterns. One Act, Cornish Institute, Seattle, Washington, November 1984. A Reforestation Project, One Act, Student Directed Plays, Western Washington University, March 1982. Lonely Woman, One Act, Radio Theatre, Western Washington University, February 1982. Rose Tints, Full Length, New Playwright's Theatre, Western Washington University, November 1981. The Hostage, One Act, New Playwright's Theatre, Western Washington University, Spring 1980. Other Dissertation: A Genealogy of North American Feminism, 1963-1991: Competing Narratives of 'Gender,' 'Race,' and 'Ethnicity,' University of Washington, December, 1992. Thesis: Permutations: A Group of Poems in Three Movements. Western Washington University, June 1981. PRESENTATIONS Keynote/Plenary And Invited Presentations “Tolkien’s ‘Absent [Female] Characters’: How Christopher Tolkien Expanded Middle-earth.” Tolkien Society, Christopher Tolkien Centenary, Virtual, November 23, 2024. "On the Shoulders of Gi(E)nts: The Joys of Bibliographic Scholarship and Fanzines in Tolkien Studies," Guest of Honor, MythCon 29, Atlanta, GA, July 20-23, 2018. "The Tolkien Corpus," Plenary, with Christian Hempelmann, THATCAMPOK 2016, Oklahoma State University, May 20-21, 2016. "Tolkien and Popular Culture," Keynote, Tolkien in Vermont 2016, University of Vermont, April 8-9, 2016. "Slashing the Fathers: Who's Anxious Now? Queering Harold Bloom and J. R. R. Tolkien in Female-Authored Fantasy," IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, University of Bristol. Public lecture, and postgraduate seminar on theories of reception, rereading, rewriting, and remixing in popular culture. July 2010. "Remaking Texts, Remodeling Scholarship," Keynote. Remake | Remodel: New Perspectives on Remakes, Film Adaptations, and Fan Productions. University of Göttingen, Germany, 30 June - 2 July, 2010. "'Harshin Ur Squeez': Racisms in LiveJournal Online Fandoms," Plenary presentation, Third Slash Fiction Study Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 25 February, 2008. "'A Room of Our Own:' How F/F Slash Queers Female Space," Keynote, Second Slash Fiction Study Day at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 27 February 2007. "The Final (?) Closet: Real People Fiction/Real People Slash," Keynote, Slash Fiction Study Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. March 1, 2006. "Bringing 'Popular Culture' Into the Multiethnic American Literature Classroom," Keynote. Second Annual URI English Studies Conference: The Uses of Popular Culture. Providence, Rhode Island, October 20-21, 2000. "Boundary Crossings: Litera(Cul)tur(Genr)es," Featured Speaker. The 1994 Lorraine Sherley Literature Symposium: A Limitless Field: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature," Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, October 1, 1994. Conference Papers “A ‘Tolkien’ of One’s Own: Women Making Their Own ‘Tolkiens.’” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 16-19, 2025. “Heritage Starts with HER: Women Writers Writing Back to Tolkien’s Legendarium.” Tolkien as Heritage, Tolkien Society & Tolkinovo društvo Srbije 2024 Seminar, Virtual, December 8, 2024. “An Incomplete Academic Fellowship: Excluding Queer Feminist Women from Tolkien Studies.” GIFCon 2025: Queering the Fantastic, Virtual, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, Centre May 7-9, 2025. “I desire the road. . . . . [but] [r]oads were made for young men, not middle-aged women”: Ista’s Journey from Dowager to Paladin.” Mythcon 53: Fantasies of the Middle Lands, Hybrid, August 2-3, 2024. “Victoria Goddard’s Nine World Series: Interleaving and Resonating with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Mythopoeic Worldbuilding.” 20th Annual UVM Tolkien Conference, University of Vermont, Hybrid, April 13, 2024. “Second Thoughts about the Second Age: Applying Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands Theory to Tolkien’s Legendarium,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, April 5-8, San Antonio, TX., 2024. “‘Really I’m an atheist, but not the kind that yells at people’: Atheist Readers of J.R.R. Tolkien.” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 27-30, 2024. “Wide Seas Islander, Autist, and Asexual: The Intersectional Mythopoeic Characterization of Cliopher (Kip) Mdang.” Mythopoeic OMS 2024, Virtual, February 17-18, 2024. “Virtual Culture Warriors: The Alt-Right Crusade Against Diversity in The Rings of Power. The Marvelous Diversity of Science Fiction and Fantasy Symposium, Hybrid, Texas A&M University, April 13-14, 2023. "Second Thoughts about the Second Age: Applying Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands Theory to Tolkien's Legendarium," The Second Age of Middle-earth, 19th Annual UVM Tolkien Conference, hybrid. April 1, 2023. "How Much Has It Changed?: Racisms In SF/F In The 21st Century," When It Changed: Women In Sf/F Since 1972, Science Fiction Foundation, University of Glasgow's Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, and the Games and Gaming Lab, hybrid. Dec. 2-4, 2022. "What Happens when the Cauldron of Story Boils Over: How Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy Breaks Middle-earth," Northeast Popular Culture Association Virtual Conference, Oct. 20-22, 2022. "J. R. R. Tolkien, Culture Warrior: The Alt-Right Religious Crusade against 'Tolkien and Diversity,'" Tolkien Society, Oxenmoot, hybrid, Sept. 1-4, 2022. "What Happens when the Cauldron of Story Boils Over: How Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy Breaks Middle-earth," MythCon 52, July 29-Aug. 1, Albuquerque, NM., 2022, "J. R. R. Tolkien, Culture Warrior: The Alt-Right Religious Crusade against 'Tolkien and Diversity,'" Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, virtual, April 13-16, 2022. "Writing Against the Grain: T. Kingfisher's Feminist Mythopoeic Fantasy," MythCon 51, virtual, July 20-Aug. 2, 2021. "Queer Atheists, Agnostics, and Animists, Oh, My!", "Tolkien and Diversity," Tolkien Society Summer Seminar, virtual, July 3-4, 2021. "Race in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 2020. Cancelled. Presented at the virtual Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, June 2-5, 2021. "Melissa Scott Queered Those Punks!", Virtual Southwest Popular Culture, Feb. 22-27, 2021. "Atheists, Agnostics, and Animists, Oh My!: Secular Readings of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium," Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2020. "Medievalist, Modernist & Postmodernist Readings of Tolkien's Constructions of Race," International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI May 9-12, 2019. "Why White Supremacy Can No Longer Provide Cover for White Academia," International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2019. "Atheists, Agnostics, and Animists, Oh My!: Secular Readings of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 17-20, 2019. "Atheists, Agnostics, and Animists, Oh My!: Secular Readings of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium," New York Tolkien Conference 2019, March 17, 2019. "The Grammar of Historical Memory in Tolkien's Legendarium: the Tales of Beren and Lúthien," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, U.K., July 2-5, 2018. "An Incomplete Fellowship: The Exclusion of Queer Women in Tolkien Studies," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IA, March 28-31, 2018. "'Making or Creating': Fans Transforming Orcs," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, April 12-15, 2017. "Stylistics Analysis of "Fatherhood" in "The Tale of Fëanor," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western MI University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016. "The Grammar of Myth in The Silmarillion (Turin Turambar)," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 22-25, 2016. "The Grammar of Myth in The Silmarillion," Southwest Popular and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 15-18, 2016. "Conflicting Audience Receptions of Tauriel in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 1-4, 2015. "The Processes of Performing Masculinity in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit," Southwest Popular and American Cultural Studies Conference. Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 11-14, 2015. "The Holy Family: Divine Queerness in Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion Series," South Central MLA Conference. Austin, TX. Oct. 28-21, 2014. "Political Rhetorics of Color-Blind Racism in Racefail '09," SFF NOW Conference. Warwick University, UK, Aug. 22-23, 2014. "The Holy Family: Divine Queerness in Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion Series," Biology and Manners Conference. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, Aug. 20, 2014. "Constructions of Middle-earth in Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 18, 2014. "Middle-earth: Tolkien's Geography in The Fall of Arthur," 35th Southwest Popular and American Culture Conference. Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 21, 2014. "Tolkien Corpus Project," 35th Southwest Popular and American Culture Conference. Albuquerque, NM. Feb. 21, 2014. "A Roundtable Discussion of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," Organizer, Moderator, and Presenter at special event for the J. R. R. Tolkien Archive, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, Feb. 21, 2013. "In Honor of Verlyn Flieger: The State of Tolkien Scholarship," 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2013. "Tolkien and Alterity: In Honor of Jane Chance," 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2013. "Interspecies Bromance in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? and What Fans Will Do," Celebrating the Hobbit: A Conference on the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana. March 1-3, 2013. "Women and Tolkien: Amazons, Valkyries, Feminists, and Slashers," 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2012. "Creating a Conceptual Search Engine and Multimodal Corpus for Humanities Research," Digital Humanities and Internet Research Special Session. Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, Jan. 5, 2012 "The Monstrous and the Feminine in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium," MythCon 39, Albuquerque, NM, July 15-18, 2011. "Grammar and Geography in Middle-earth," The 44rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2011. "Racefail 09 Part Nth: Citizenship Fail," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio TX, April 20-23, 2011 'What Do You Mean "Pleasure," White Man?': Complicating Empathic Identification and Self Insertion in Online Fan Fiction," Desiring the Text, Touching the Past: Towards an Erotics of Reception. University of Bristol, UK, July 10, 2010. "Where No Straight Man Has Gone Before: Queering Star Trek," American Studies Division, University of Göttingen, Germany, July 3, 2010. "The Rhetorics of Color-Blind Racism in Racefail 09," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 17-21 March, 2010. "'A Room of Our Own:' Women Writing Women in Fan and Slash Fiction," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 18-22, 2009. "The Crown of Durin and the Shield of Oromë the Great: Spirituality and History in The Lord of the Rings," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 2008. "'Harshin Ur Squeez': Visual Rhetorics of Anti-Racism in LiveJournal Online Fandoms," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 19-23, 2008. "Slashing the Fathers: Who's Anxious Now?" MythCon 38, Berkeley, CA, August 3-6, 2007 "Into the Woods: Faramir as Top, Bottom, and In-Between," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 14-17, 2007. "The Theme of Mistaken Love: A Feminist Re/Vision of Éowyn," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2007. "'Tree and flower, leaf and grass': The Grammar of Middle-earth in The Two Towers" MythCon 37, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, August 4-7, 2006. "'Tree and flower, leaf and grass': The Grammar of Middle-earth in The Fellowship of the Ring," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2006. "A Thrust in the Dark: Slash Girls' Internet Queerness," 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts," Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 15-19, 2006. "From Beowulf to Postmodernism: Interdisciplinary Teaching of The Lord of the Rings" with Judy Ann Ford. Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Aug. 11-15, 2005. "Epic Becomes Novel, Novel Becomes Film: Texts by Tolkien and Jackson," 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8, 2005. ""Breaking of the Fellowship: Competing Discourses of Archives and Canons in The Lord of the Rings Internet Fandom," 26th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 16-21, 2005. "'Far Green Country' or 'Shadow on the Waters'?: The Question of Valinor in The Lord of the Rings," The University of Texas-Tyler, "From Plato to Potter," March 26, 2005. 'History Becomes Legend': The Lord of the Rings in History and Literature. Collaborative Keynote Speech with Dr. Judy Ann Ford, Interdisciplinary Conference, English Graduates for Academic Development, A&M-Commerce, Sept. 17, 2004. The Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth in the College and High School Classroom. Session: TEAMS V. Beowulf Comes to Edoras: Tolkien as a Gateway to Medieval Studies. With Judy Ann Ford. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 5-8, 2004. Cunning Linguists: The Queer Erotics of "Words/Silence/Flesh," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 16-21, 2004. "Tolkien's Book and Jackson's Film: Adaptation, Substitution, Translation or Desecration?", PCA/ACA Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 16-19, 2003. "Root, Branch, and Leaf: Resonances from Tolkien to de Lint," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 19-23, 2003. "So You Want To Be . . . . More than the Stereotypical Girl: Wizardry and Gender in Diane Duane's 'Young Wizards' Series," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 20-23, 2002. "Social Constructions of 'Wizards' in Fantasy Novels by Duane, Hambly, and Pratchett," PCA/ACA Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 13-16, 2002. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Life in the Borderlands/Season Two," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 11-14, 2001. "Teaching and Preaching in the Nineties: Politics, Religion, Education, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," Second Annual URI English Studies Conference: The Uses of Popular Culture. Providence, RI, October 20-21, 2000. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Life in the Borderlands/Season One," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA, April 19-22, 2000. "'When Worlds Collide": War on the Borderlands in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA, March 31-April 3, 1999. "'Momutes': Momentary Utopias in Tepper's Trilogies," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 17-21, 1999. "'The Perils of Pauline': Professing Popular Pscholarship," Sigma Tau Delta Upsilon Beta Chapter, Initiation Speaker. Commerce, TX, November 19, 1998. "Deep Space Nine: Star Trek's Borderlands," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, April 9-11, 1998. "Feminist Movements Toward New Spaces," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 18-21, 1998. "Sheri S. Tepper: 'Webster, Witch, and Wicked/Wiccan Woman,'" Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 26-29, 1997. "'Points/Knots/Focuses:' 'Power" and "Feminism' in David Brin's Glory Season," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 25-28, 1996. "Single White Female Wants to Meet Vampire: Object, Contemporary Feminist Sex; Or, Whatever Happened to Vlad the Impaler in the 90s?", Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 12-15, 1995. "'Multiculturalism' and 'Feminism': Teaching and Working in the Nineties," South Central Women's Studies Association, Annual Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, March 24-25, 1995. "Feminist Theory in Science Fiction," Featured speaker. Interdisciplinary Conference, English Graduates for Academic Development, East Texas State University, Commerce, TX, July 30, 1994. "Race-ing to the Stars and Back: Bodies and Culture in US SF," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 6-9, 1994. "Octavia Butler and Jewelle Gomez: Crossing Boundaries," Baylor Literary and Academic Conference, Waco, TX, February 11-12, 1994. "(An)Other Look at North American SF: Multiculturalism in Trilogies by Butler, Ore and Tepper," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 1993. "What is a Publishable Essay? A Perilous Question," Modern Language Association, New York City, Dec. 1992. "Heroes or Sheroes?" Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, March, 1992. "Sayers' Communities of Women: A Feminist Practice of Woolf's Theories," Detective Fiction and Film Conference, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Oct. 1991. "Grass: An Epic Reversal of Dune," Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March, 1991. "Movements Toward New Spaces: Feminist Theory and World Changing Fictions," Life, the Universe and Everything, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Feb. 1990. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Popular Culture Association Trustee-at-large, April 2022-April 2025 Area Chair: Tolkien Studies Area, 2014-2025 Member of Editorial Review Board, Mallorn, 2020- Present. https://www.tolkiensociety.org/society/publications/mallorn/mallorn-editorial-board/ Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Tolkien Research, 2014-present https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/editorialboard.html Reader for AP English Literature exams. Louisville, Kentucky. June 2010; June 2011. Tolkien at Kalamazoo, 2007-2011: Proposed and organized paper sessions and roundtables. Reader/Reviewer, N.E.H. Panel on Summer Seminars and Institutes Applications. Washington, D.C., April 2010. International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Second Vice President, 2006-2009 Division Head, Science Fiction Literature, March, 2003-2006 Popular Culture Association, Second Vice President 1997-2000 Area Chair, Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1995-1997