Jane Chance

Jane Chance, Ph.D., born Jane Chance Nitzsche in October 1945, is an American Medieval scholar who has written books and many articles on J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, dealing often with Tolkien's own Medieval specialty and influences.
She is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Rice University in Texas, and apart from Tolkien, her scholastic interests lie mainly in mythography, Chaucer and other Medieval literature, and Medieval women. As of 1990, she is general editor of Boydell & Brewer's Library of Medieval Women book series. Chance is also a poet and photographer.
==Books & articles written==
This list pertains to J.R.R. Tolkien; for an entire bibliography, see Jane Chance's Curriculum Vitae.
*1979 - Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England - revised in 2001
*1992 - The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power - revised in 2001
*1979 - "The King under the Mountain: Tolkien’s Hobbit" in North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 47
*1986 - "Tolkien and His Sources" in Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
*1991 - "Medievalism in Tolkien: Two Decades of Criticism in Review", with David Day, in Studies in Medievalism, vol. 3
*1995 - "Power and Knowledge in Tolkien: The Problem of Difference in 'The Birthday Party'" in Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight's Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
*2002 - "Is There a Text in this Hobbit? Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring" in Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 30 issue 2
*2005 - "Tolkien's women (and men): the films and the book" in Mallorn 43 and Janet Brennan Croft's Tolkien on Film
*2006 - "Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference" in Hammond and Scull's The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004
*2009 - "'In the Company of Orcs': Peter Jackson's Queer Tolkien" in Queer Movie Medievalisms
*2014 - "Tolkien’s Hybrid Mythology: The Hobbit as Old Norse 'Fairy-Story'" in Bradford Lee Eden's The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences
*2015 - "Why Teach The Silmarillion? The Mythology of the Abject Hero" in Leslie A. Donovan's Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Other Works
*2018 - "Tolkien's Classical Beowulf and England's Heroic Age" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 15
==Works compiled==
*1986 - Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with Miriam Youngerman Miller
*2002 - Tolkien the Medievalist (Routledge Studies in Medieval Culture and Religion, vol. 3)
*2004 - Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader
*2005 - Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages with Alfred Siewers - part of The New Middle Ages series
==External links==
*Faculty page
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*Entry at bookfinder.com
== See also ==
* Beowulf
* Verlyn Flieger
* Leo Carruthers
* Tom Shippey
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