Nationality American Period 2002-present | Name Michael C. Role Author | |
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Occupation Literary critic and author Genre Fantasy
Anglo-Saxon literature
Medieval literature
Science fiction Education Loyola University Chicago, University of Missouri Awards Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies Books JRR Tolkien Encyclopedia, Beowulf and the Critics, Rings - Swords - and Mons, From Here to Infinity: An Explor, How Tradition Works: A Similar People Verlyn Flieger, Douglas A Anderson, J R R Tolkien | ||
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Michael D. C. Drout (born 1968) is Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College. He is an author and editor specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Drout holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago (May 1997), an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri (May 1993), an M.A. in Communication from Stanford University (May 1991), and a B.A. in Professional and Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is best known for his studies of Tolkien's scholarly work on Beowulf and the precursors and textual evolution of the essay Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics, published as Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien (2002), which won the Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship in Inklings Studies, 2003.
He is the editor of the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2006), a one-volume reference on Tolkien's works and their contexts.
With Douglas A. Anderson and Verlyn Flieger, he is co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, (Volumes 1–7, 2004–2010).
Books
Books written or edited by Michael Drout include:
Audio
Michael Drout has published thirteen audio lectures for Recorded Books' Modern Scholar Series:
Drout has both a nostalgic love of the Anglo-Saxon language, and academic expertise in its linguistic basis for the modern English Language; he maintains a growing collection of recorded Anglo-Saxon on Anglo-Saxon Aloud.