Michael D. C. Drout - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Michael D. C. Drout is the Prentice Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Wheaton College

Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

Wheaton College is a four-year, private liberal arts college with an approximate student body of 1,550. Wheaton's residential campus is located in Norton, Massachusetts, between Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1834 as a female seminary, it is one of the oldest...

and an author

Author

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and editor

Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

specializing in Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon literature

Old English literature encompasses literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period from the 7th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others...

and medieval literature

Medieval literature

Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages . The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as well as secular works...

, science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

and fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

and Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...

.

Drout holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...

(May 1997), an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

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(May 1993), and an M.A. in Communication from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

(May 1991).

He is best known for his studies of Tolkien's scholarly work on Beowulf
Beowulf
Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...

and the precursors and textual evolution of the essay Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics
Beowulf: the monsters and the critics
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" was a 1936 lecture given by J. R. R. Tolkien on literary criticism on the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf...

, published as Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien
Beowulf and the Critics
Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien is a book edited by Michael D. C. Drout that presents scholary editions of the two manuscript versions of Tolkien's essays or lecture series "Beowulf and the Critics", which served as the basis for the much shorter 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and...

(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

Douglas A. Anderson

Douglas Allen Anderson is an author and editor on the subjects of fantasy and medieval literature, specializing in textual analysis of the works of J. R. R...

and Verlyn Flieger

Verlyn Flieger

Verlyn Flieger is an author, editor, and professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She teaches courses in comparative mythology, medieval literature and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien....

, he is co-editor of Tolkien Studies
Tolkien Studies
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review is an academic journal publishing papers on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D. C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger. It states that it is the first scholarly journal published by an academic press in the area of Tolkien...

: An Annual Scholarly Review, (Volumes 1–7, 2004–2010).

Books

Books written or edited by Michael Drout include:

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 7, 2010 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, E-ISSN: 1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 6, 2009 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, E-ISSN: 1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 5, 2008 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, E-ISSN: 1547-3155

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 4, 2007 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1933202262

J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, Routlege, October 2006, ISBN 0-4159-6942-5

How Tradition Works: A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of the Anglo-Saxon Tenth Century, (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), Tempe, AZ (2006), ISBN 0-8669-8350-3

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 3, 2006 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1-9332-0210-6

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 2, 2005 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1-9332-0203-3

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 1, 2004 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 0-9370-5887-4

Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien (editor), Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 248 (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), Tempe, AZ (2002) ISBN 0-8669-8290-6

Audio

Michael Drout has published eight audio lectures for Recorded Books' Modern Scholar Series:

Having both a nostalgic love of the Anglo-Saxon language, and academic expertise in its linguistic basis for the modern English Language; Drout maintains a growing collection of recorded Anglo-Saxon on Anglo-Saxon Aloud.

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