Robin Anne Reid
Positions
- independent scholar
Robin Anne Reid, Ph.D., was a professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce for twenty-seven years before retiring in May, 2020, to pursue scholarship as an independent scholar.
She organized Tolkien at Kalamazoo paper sessions for International Congress on Medieval Studies from 2007 – 2011, and currently runs the Tolkien Studies area of the Popular Culture Association which she created in 2014. Her teaching areas were creative writing, marginalized literatures, stylistics, and critical theory. She co-directed two N.E.H. Tolkien Institutes for School Teachers on Teaching Tolkien (2004, 2009) with Dr. Judy Ann Ford, History, A&M‑Commerce. She and Dr. Ford also team-taught a series of undergraduate and graduate courses on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, both face-to-face and online. She and Dr. Ford collaborated on essays on on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, and another joint essay, “‘…things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be’: Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings On-Line,” was published in Leslie Donovan’s Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works (MLA 2015).
Reid’s Tolkien scholarship includes bibliographic essays: “The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s (Perilous and Fair, eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie Donovan) and “Race in Tolkien Studies: A Bibliographic Essay” (Tolkien and Alterity, eds. Christopher T. Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor). Her stylistic analysis of female bodies appeared in The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium (Christopher T. Vaccaro) and an essay on “Mythology and History: A Stylistic Analysis of The Lord of the Rings” was published in Style (Winter 2009).
She has published on Tolkien fan fiction in “Thrusts in the Dark: Slashers’ Queer Practices” (Extrapolation, Fall 2009) and “Making or creating Orcs: How Thorinsmut’s Free Orcs AU writes back to Tolkien” (Journal of Tolkien Research, 2020). She is currently working on reception study of atheist, agnostic, and animist readers of Tolkien’s legendarium and an anthology (co-edited with Christopher T. Vaccaro and Stephen Yandell), titled “‘We Could Do With a Bit More Queerness in These Parts’: Tolkien’s Queer Legendarium.” She will soon be starting work on an edited collection on Race, Racisms, and Tolkien.
Contact for these current CfPs
2022-01-10: [edited anthology on race, racisms, and Tolkien]: edited anthology on race, racisms, and Tolkien
2022-01-21: 2022 National Conference: virtual: PCA 2022: Tolkien Studies Area
Journals
- Editorial board member, Journal of Tolkien Research
- Editorial board member, Mallorn
Peer-reviewed articles
- 11 February 2021. Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 11, № 2. Making or creating Orcs: How Thorinsmut’s Free Orcs AU writes back to Tolkien
Notes
- 5 October 2021. Tolkien Studies, XVIII. The year’s work in Tolkien studies 2018
Conferences
- 16 April 2022. Author, J.R.R. Tolkien, culture warrior: The alt-right religious crusade against “Tolkien and diversity”. In PCA 2022 National Conference: Tolkien Studies VIII
- 16 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien live reading: Get-together, at PCA 2022.
- 16 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies VII: A roundtable on the future of Tolkien Studies, at PCA 2022.
- 16 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies VIII: Religion, politics, and Tolkien, at PCA 2022.
- 15 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies III: Multi-disciplinary approaches to Tolkien, at PCA 2022.
- 15 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies IV: Roundtable on teaching Tolkien, at PCA 2022.
- 15 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies V: Tolkien Studies Area business meeting, at PCA 2022.
- 15 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies VI: Race, nationalism, totalitarianism, activism, and Tolkien, at PCA 2022.
- 14 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies II: Queer and Critical Race approaches to Tolkien, at PCA 2022.
- 14 April 2022. session chair, Tolkien Studies I: Literary and cultural studies approaches to Tolkien, at PCA 2022.
- 1 August 2021. Author, Race, racisms, and Tolkien: A roundtable. In Mythcon 51 Session 13
- 31 July 2021. Author, Cities and strongholds of Middle-earth I: A panel. In Mythcon 51 Session 1
- 31 July 2021. Author, Writing against the grain: T. Kingfisher’s feminist Mythopoeic fantasy. In Mythcon 51 Session 4
- 4 July 2021. Author, Queer atheists, agnostics, and animists, oh, my!. In Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021: Sunday session № 1
- 4 June 2021. session chair, Tolkien Studies VI: A roundtable on the future of Tolkien Studies, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 4 June 2021. session chair, Tolkien Studies VII: The Council of Tolkien Studies, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 3 June 2021. session chair, Tolkien Studies IV: Race and racisms in Tolkien’s secondary and our primary worlds, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 3 June 2021. session chair, Tolkien Studies V: Tolkien’s fandoms, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 3 June 2021. Author, Race in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Katherine Adison’s The Goblin Emperor. In Tolkien Studies IV: Race and racisms in Tolkien’s secondary and our primary worlds
- 2 June 2021. session chair, Tolkien Studies I: Environmental ethics and leadership theory in Tolkien’s legendarium, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 2 June 2021. session chair, Tolkien Studies II: Multi-disciplinary approaches to Tolkien’s legendarium, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 2 June 2021. session chair, Tolkien Studies III: A roundtable on Tolkien reception studies, at PCA 2021 National Conference.
- 19 April 2020. session chair, № 5723: Tolkien Studies IV: The future of Tolkien Studies: A roundtable, at PCA 2020 National Conference.
- 18 April 2020. Author, Race in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and in Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor. In PCA 2020 Tolkien Studies I
- 18 April 2020. session chair, № 5323: Tolkien Studies I: Race and Tolkien, at PCA 2020 National Conference.
- 15 April 2020. Area Chair, Tolkien Studies, 2020 National Conference: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Popular Culture Association
Blog posts
- 4 July 2021. Tolkien on the web, Sunday, June 4, Tolkien and Diversity Presentations (report)
- 3 July 2021. Tolkien on the web, Saturday, June 3, Tolkien and Diversity Presentations (report)
- 2 July 2021. Tolkien on the web, Response to Backlash against Tolkien and Diversity Summer Seminar
- 1 July 2021. Tolkien on the web, Catholicism, Tolkien, and Diversity
- 11 June 2021. Tolkien on the web, Tolkien Studies Area: The tenth anniversary!