Robin Anne Reid, Ph. D. is a poet, linguist, and teacher of language and literature at Texas A&M University. In 2004 and 2009, she headed a National Endowment for the Humanities workshop on J.R.R. Tolkien and his novel The Lord of the Rings.[1] She regularly writes in “The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies” section of the periodical Tolkien Studies.
In 2017, Reid helped collaborate an essay collection honoring Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey, with John Wm. Hougton, Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, and John D. Rateliff.
Reid was the Guest of Honor at the Mythopoeic Society's 49th conference in Atlanta, Georgia in July 2018.[2]
Bibliography[]
- 2009 - "Councils and Kings: Aragorn's Journey Towards Kingship in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 6
- 2009 - "Mythology and History: A Stylistic Analysis of The Lord of the Rings" in Penn State University Press' Style, vol. 43, no. 4
- 2012 - "Women & Tolkien: Amazons, Valkyries, Feminists, and Slashers" in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 6, issue 1
- 2013 - "Light (noun) or Light (adjective)? Female Bodies and Femininities in The Lord of the Rings" in Christopher Vaccaro's The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality
- 2015 - "The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium: A Feminist Bibliographic Essay” in Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life
- 2017 - "Race in Tolkien Studies: A Bibliographic Essay" in Christopher Vaccaro's Tolkien and Alterity
- 2018 - Co-edited Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey