Christopher VaccaroChristopher Vaccaro is Senior Lecturer of English language and literature, gender studies, and medieval studies at the University of Vermont, where he has taught since 1999. Professor Vaccaro has three books, Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in medieal cultures (Manchester University, 2022), Tolkien and Alterity (Palgrave-Springer, 2017), and The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium (McFarland, 2013), and has published a number of articles and book chapters. Read More Read Less