Jane Chance

Jane Chance Nitzsche is Professor of English at Rice University, where she has taught since 1973. Her research interests center on modern medievalism (J.R.R. Tolkien in particular), mythology, literature of the Middle Ages, and medieval women writers.

Bibliography, selected

Books

• 1979: Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England
• 1992: The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power
• 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power (revised edition)
• 2001: Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England (revised edition)
• 2002: Tolkien the Medievalist
• 2004: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader
• 2005: Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages

Articles

• 1986: Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • "Tolkien and His Sources"
• 1991: Studies in Medievalism #3
  • "Medievalism in Tolkien: Two Decades of Criticism in Review" (with David Day)
• 1995: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
  • "Power and Knowledge in Tolkien: The Problem of Difference in 'The Birthday Party'"
• 2002: Literature—Film Quarterly 30
  • (Issue 2): "Is There a Text in this Hobbit? Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring"
• 2005: Mallorn 43
  • "Tolkien's women (and men): the films and the book"

Filmography

• 2001: Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring - Herself

External links

• Jane Chance at Rice University