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silmarillionwritersguild:

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, homoeroticism,
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

For more on the editors (including contact information), click below.

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