Would any students or even teachers/profs be willing to give me feedback on my (very) short essay?

It’s an essay about how Bisclavret: The Werewolf (a medieval story) is a queer allegory about coping with human nature being different than what is described in Adam and Eve (i.e cis heteronormative monogamy) which was and is the dominant Christian view of human nature.

Most of the essays on Google/DuckDuckGo that come up when you look up “Bisclavret” are queer essays, including an essay published by the foundation of original author, but my prof told me:

  • you didn’t even talk about the major point of the story which is that Bisclavret is a werewolf

  • I don’t know why you think the king and Bisclavret are engaged in a sexual relationship

  • the connections to homosexuality are tenuous at best

I just want to know if he’s docking my marks based on his personal bias or if I’m genuinely not meeting the rubric. I’m second guessing myself and I’m worried I’m overreacting, I’m very sure that I met the rubric requirements but I feel like he just doesn’t like my analysis or wants to shut it down because it was using a queer lens (white presumably religious cis het male prof from a religious university/college). I’m afraid if I dispute it he will retaliate and grade me even worse but I also feel very discouraged so if I’m not overreacting I want to dispute it.

I can send an anonymized link to a scrubbed essay and the professor’s feedback through DM if anyone wants to help kitty-birthday-sad

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    26 days ago

    If I’m being charitable, he’s ignorant and not exactly college professor level material - the point of college level discourse is the diversity of ideas and discussion. A professor that doesn’t want you to write an interpretation of themes and ideas needs to specify that in the rubric. Otherwise the default assumption is that they’re asking you to think on it and produce a unique take.

    You probably won’t get anywhere in a religious school though. You just kinda need to ask yourself if the juice is worth the squeeze. If you feel you can talk to him, pop in during his office hours and talk about how others see these same things, see what his take is.