Kathy Lavezzo teaches English at the University of Iowa. She is the editor of Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minnesota, 2003) and author of Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000–1534 (Cornell, 2006) and The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton (Cornell, 2016). Her current project, Bad Medievalism, concerns negative affect, race, and medieval studies.
Kathryn Lavezzo
Articles
Multiculturalism in Middle-earth: On Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”
Kathryn Lavezzo discusses “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” J. R. R. Tolkien, and Stuart Hall, tilting toward a critique of whiteness in Tolkien film/tv adaptation.
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