Robin Anne Reid
Robin Anne Reid is a scholar of literature who has specialized in feminist studies and Tolkien studies. She was a professor of literature and languages at Texas A&M University until her retirement in 2020.
Biography
Robin Anne Reid was a professor of literature and languages at Texas A&M University. She retired in May 2020, refusing the title of "Professor Emerita", and using instead the description "independent scholar". In a 2022 article she described herself as "A Queer Atheist Feminist Autist".[1] She studied feminism for some ten years and then switched to Tolkien studies.[1][2] She has also written on fantasy and science fiction more widely, such as on Arthur C. Clarke.[3]
Reid's work on J. R. R. Tolkien and his Middle-earth writings includes papers and a bibliographic essay on Tolkien and race.[4][5][6] She has written on homosexuality in Tolkien's text and fan responses to it.[7] With Judy Ann Ford, she has contributed to scholarly analysis of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films.[8]
Reception
Reviewing Reid's book Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, K. A. Laity wrote that it is an "immense, glossy reference book ... aimed at the library market", with a scope spanning both academic and fan sources.[9]
Benjamin Lawson writes of Reid's Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion that it succeeds in being useful to the general reader, designed as an introduction for young adults. Lawson finds the "Alternative Perspectives" section at the end of the analysis of each of Bradbury's books "the chief novelty and sophistication" of this particular Companion. In the space of three pages it gives an update on recent theory, including in some cases gender or "more daringly" queer theory.[10]
Books
- 1997: Arthur C. Clarke: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press.
- 2000: Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press.
- 2009: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Greenwood Press.
- 2009: The Green Book of Westmarch. (with Judy Ann Ford). Resources gathered for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute.
References
- ^ a b Reid, Robin A. (2022). "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". Mythlore. 40 (2). Article 14.
- ^ Ryan, Barbara (2000). "[Review:] 'Feminism for the 21st Century'". NWSA Journal. 12 (1): 181–186. JSTOR 4316717.
- ^ Marbais, Peter Christian (1998). "[Review:] Arthur C Clarke: A Critical Companion". Extrapolation (pre-2012). 39 (2): 174.
- ^ Reid, Robin Anne (11 February 2021). "Making or Creating Orcs: How Thorinsmut's Free Orcs AU Writes Back to Tolkien". Journal of Tolkien Research. 11 (2). article 3.
- ^ Reid, Robin Anne (2017). "Race in Tolkien Studies: A Bibliographic Essay". Tolkien and Alterity. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 33–74. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61018-4_3. ISBN 978-3-319-61017-7.
- ^ Reid, Robin Anne (2022). "Race in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and in Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor". Journal of Tolkien Research. 15 (2). Article 4.
- ^ Reid, Robin Anne. "Thrusts in the Dark: Slashers' Queer Practices". Extrapolation (pre-2012); Brownsville. 50 (3 (Fall 2009)): 463–483, 376.
- ^ Ford, Judy Ann; Reid, Robin Anne (2011). "Into the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters?". In Bogstad, Janice M.; Kaveny, Philip E. (eds.). Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. McFarland & Company. pp. 169–182. ISBN 978-0-7864-8473-7. Archived from the original on 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ^ Laity, K. A. (2009). "Review of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy". Femspec. 10 (2): 135–138.
- ^ Lawson, Benjamin S. (2001). "[Review:] Ray Bradbury Companions". Utopian Studies. 12 (1): 133–136. JSTOR 20718241.
