Tolkien and Alterity

Christopher Vaccaro is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vermont, where he teaches on  Beowulf , Tolkien, Old English language and literature, British literature surveys, and gender/sexuality studies. He has published in the Tolkien-specific journal  Mallorn , is the editor of the collection  The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium  (2013) and is currently working on a book-length project on  Beowulf .

Yvette Kisor is Professor of Literature at Ramapo College, where she teaches courses in medieval literature, early British literature, the history of the English language, and Tolkien. Her Tolkien publications appear in  Mythlore  and  Tolkien Studies ,  The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment ,   and  MLA Approaches to Teaching: J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works,  among others. Her mostrecent publication is a co-authored book with Michael D.C. Drout et al,  Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis  (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).