My Tolkien paper was accepted at Kalamazoo!!

*is excited*

The whole Tolkien area is pretty sweet. Check out the geeker joy:

Paper proposals: Tolkien at Kalamazoo 2012

Tolkien and Women (Christopher Vaccaro, presider)

Eileen Moore: Wo-man: Tolkien’s nomenclature for the feminine in his invented languages
Amy Amendt-Raduege: Revising Lobelia
Robin Anne Reid: Women and Tolkien: Amazons, feminists, and slashers
Catherine Coker: Constructing Lothiriel: rewriting and rescuing the women of Middle-earth from the margins

Tolkien and Ideology (Brad Eden, presider)

Chris Vaccaro: Tolkien and the Old English Apollonius: medieval and modern constructions of masculinity
Edward L. Risden: Tolkien, classical myth, and Said’s orientalism: othering the East and the South
Gina Weckwerth: Reflecting the eternal: medieval origins of Tolkien’s depictions of paradise
Amber Lee Baker: Creating and redeeming: a look at J.R.R. Tolkien and St. Thomas Aquinas

The Hobbit on its 75th anniversary (Douglas Anderson, presider)

Jane Chance: The mythology of magic in The Hobbit: Tolkien’s source in Andrew Lang’s “Story of Sigurd” from the Red Fairy Book
John Rateliff: ‘A fragment detached’: The Hobbit and The Silmarillion
Jane Beal: The hidden war in The Hobbit
Jason Fisher: Creation from philology: echoes of the Voluspa in Tolkien

Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun (Amy Amendt-Raduege, presider)

Gerard Hynes: Sigurd’s second coming
Larry Caldwell: Morris, Tolkien, and the logic of medievalist feminism


Tolkien’s Shorter Poems and Lyrics (Yvette Kisor, presider)

John R. Holmes: Metrical variation as characterization in Hobbit verse
Brad Eden: Musical allusion in Tolkien’s poetry and its Victorian counterparts
Kristine Larsen: Songs and stars: celestial motifs in Tolkien’s poetry

Teaching Tolkien (roundtable)(Robin Anne Reid, presider)

Kristine Larsen: There and back again in the classroom: preparing for the release of The Hobbit
Rachel Fulton Brown: Tolkien: medieval and modern
Nagy Gergely: Teaching Tolkien in another culture: non-English speaking, non-Anglo-American students
and Tolkien
Janice Bogstad: Lord of the Rings: reading vs viewing
Craig Franson: Is there a class for this text?: J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and Romantic aesthetics
Jack Baker: Tolkien and theology for undergraduates

Becoming That Kind of Crazy Cat Lady

Hmm, clearly I can't finish my laundry because Lady Sylvanas is in the clothesbasket. I should go watch Farscape on Netflix Instantly instead!

Incidentally, Farscape holds up *really* well.