Roz kaveney biography of rory

Updated: November 25, 2024

I am updating the publications in 2023 and 2024 and have decided to begin including theses & dissertations as well as published conference papers to create as full a record as possible. Feel free to share!

Share

The kernel of this bibliography is the research I did for my essay, "The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium: A Feminist Bibliography," published in Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie Donovan’s Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien anthology which was published in 2015 (good grief, the 10th anniversary is appearing on the horizon!). As with any publication, the bibliography was effectively out of date when it appeared in print.

I described the essay as a “feminist bibliography” not because I only covered feminist scholarship on Tolkien (because not all scholarship on “women” is necessarily feminist) but because I am a feminist. As a feminist and an academic who is within a few years of 70, I have been observing the ways in which “feminist studies,” “gender studies,” and “queer studies” (in academic spaces and discourses) have developed as the new theories and applications inspired my work in different ways. I think there are intriguing overlaps, similarities and differences.

I decided to focus this bibliography on what I’m calling “Feminist/Gender/Queer” scholarship (as a nod to the meaning of the virgule in slash fanfiction which sort of begins to express some of the complex entanglements and conflicts in the theoretical webs).

As always, additions, corrections, and commentary are welcome!

Myers, Doris T. “Brave New World: The Status of Women According to Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams.” Cimarron Review, 17, 1971, pp.13-19.

Goselin, Peter Damien. “Two Faces Of Eve: Galadriel and Shelob as Anima Figures,” Mythlore, vol. 6, no. 3, article 1, 1979. Link.

Johnson, Janice. “The Celeblain of Celeborn and Galadrie

Just after the publication of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors in 1996, Roddy Doyle was standing in a bookshop when he was approached by the proprietor. "Could you do me a favour?" he asked. Sure, said Doyle, thinking the man wanted a book signed. "Next time," said the man, "would you write a comedy? Booksellers prefer it."

It was a very Woody Allen moment. In Allen's mid-career, when he was exploring the bittersweet territory of Manhattan, Stardust Memories, and Interiors, he became incensed by the constant refrain, from critics and public, of: "We preferred your early stuff, when you were funny". In Doyle's case, it seemed that his chatty domestic comedies of working-class Dublin life had atrophied into closely notated domestic tragedy - as if a smile has gradually been wiped off his face. From populating his fictional Dublin suburb with aspirant rock stars, shrieking teenage girls and their sardonic, seen-it-all parents, he had upended a large rock and discovered beneath it an 18-carat, wife-and-child-abusing, murderous bastard called Charlo (in The Family, screened on RTE and BBC) and a battered-but-devoted wife called Paula. People who had once praised the "realism" of his Barrytown wastrels and dreamers, with their salty dialogue and antiphonal exchanges of insult, started to complain that Doyle's moral hooligans and masochistic spouses were a damn sight too realistic for comfort: as if an Irish HE Bates had unexpectedly metamorphosed into an Irish Emile Zola.

Even with his gradually acquired reputation as a teller of uncomfortable truths, Doyle is, however, fantastically popular at home. Somebody worked out that four of his books are in the list of Ireland's Top 50 bestsellers (from any source) since the 1940s. He is read by Irish people who would otherwise never open a book in their lives - who include, for instance, people on drug rehabilitation programmes who are given The Woman Who... to read as part of an

English writer (born 1960)

"Gaiman" redirects here. For other uses, see Gaiman (disambiguation).

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic series The Sandman (1989–1996) and the novels Good Omens (1990), Stardust (1999), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), Anansi Boys (2005), The Graveyard Book (2008) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013). He co-created the TV adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman.

Gaiman's awards include Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards and Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards, and it was adapted into an acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London.

Beginning in 2024, news outlets published sexual assault accusations against Gaiman by numerous women. This affected or halted production on several adaptations of his work. One alleged victim sued Gaiman and his estranged wife Amanda Palmer for rape and human trafficking.

Early life and education

Neil