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:
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you didn’t even talk about the major point of the story which is that Bisclavret is a werewolf
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I don’t know why you think the king and Bisclavret are engaged in a sexual relationship
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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 
His feedback was that everything else in the paper was good. He said he doesn’t see how Bisclavret is an allegory for homosexuality and that I didn’t follow the prompt of discussing how human nature is explored in Bisclavret.
I don’t understand how talking about cis heteronormativity and monogamy and werewolves as an allegory for otherness isn’t talking about human nature. Medieval Christian peasants, the people that created this story, were extremely sexually repressed like wtf.
He said that what I wrote wasn’t related to the source material when the queer allegory was so dense I would end up quoting half of the text, and I had to consciously avoid accidentally plagiarizing other queer writers because it’s the most common essay topic when googling Bisclavret. Notably literally none of his course materials mention queerness at all even though “werewolves are gay” is such a common take that even TERF Rowling uses it as a trope 🤢. To the point that it feels like a conscious exclusion or erasure of any queerness in his medieval studies curriculum.