Here is a list of my published written work to date. Some of these are open access while others are not; if you are unable to access any of my work and wish to do so, please feel free to contact me via the form on this site.
Books
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies.
Chapters and articles
‘Tolkien as Theorist’, in Dimitra Fimi and Luke Shelton (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of J.R.R. Tolkien (Oxford: Oxford University Press, TBD) (forthcoming).
Driggers, T. and Rios Maldonado, M., ‘Here at the End(s) of All Things: The Fall of Númenor as a Theology of Failure for Middle-earth’, in Tom Emanuel and Will Sherwood (eds.), Tolkien and Religion in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh: Luna Press, TBD) (forthcoming).
‘Feasting at the Threshold: Eucharistic Eroticism and Homonationalism in Diane Duane’s The Tale of the Five‘, in Mythlore 43.2 (Spring/Summer 2025), pp. 109-124. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol43/iss2/8/ (open access).
‘Archaeologies of the Future: Deconstruction, Fantasy, and the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin’, in The New Americanist 1.3 (Autumn 2019), pp. 103-128, <https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:27971/>. Republished in The New Americanist 2.2 (Autumn 2023), pp. 227-248. Available at: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/tna.2023.0017 (open access).
‘The Stripped Banner: Reading The Fall of Arthur as a Post-World War I Text’, in Sørina Higgins (ed.), The Inklings and King Arthur (Berkeley, CA: Apocryphile Press, 2018), pp. 239-250.
‘Modern Medievalism and Myth: Tolkien, Tennyson, and the Quest for a Hero’, in The Journal of Inklings Studies 3.2 (October 2013), pp. 133-152.
Reviews
‘Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery’, in Gramarye 23 (Summer 2023), pp. 146-149.
‘A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Francesca T. Barbini’, in Fantastika Journal 5.1 (May 2021), pp. 93-8. Available at: https://www.fantastikajournal.com/_files/ugd/25b7cd_92a7ca35388d460589b2176f90f94023.pdf (open access).
‘Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture by Douglas E. Cowan’, in Folklore 132.1 (March 2021), pp. 109-110, <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0015587X.2020.1857606>.
Reference material
‘The Left Hand of Darkness‘, in Robert Clark (ed.) The Literary Encyclopedia, first published 21 November 2019, <https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11787>.
Other
‘Cruising Faërie: Further Notes on Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature’, Mythopoeic Society Conference and Seminar Proceedings, Issue 1 (Online Midwinter Seminar 2024: ‘Something Mighty Queer’), pp. 5-19. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2024/iss1/2/ (open access).
‘Haunting Prospects: Imagining Futurity in Change and Stasis in SFF Creative Practice in Scotland’, Future Voices of Scottish SFF Academic Response, February 2023. Available at: https://futurescottishsff.gla.ac.uk/index.php/academic-responses/dr-taylor-driggers/
‘Beyond the Walls of the World: The Theology of Fantasy’, Movement, Issue 153 (Spring 2016), pp. 12-13.
Dr Taylor Driggers 