Michael D. C. Drout
Michael D. C. Drout | |
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Born | May 3, 1968 |
Occupation | Literary criticandauthor |
Nationality | American |
Period | 2002–present |
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Subject | Literature |
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michaeldrout |
Michael D. C. Drout(/draʊt/;born 1968) is an American Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval atWheaton College.He is anauthorandeditorspecializing inAnglo-Saxonandmedieval literature,science fictionandfantasy,especially the works ofJ. R. R. TolkienandUrsula K. Le Guin.
Career
[edit]Drout holds a Ph.D. in English fromLoyola University Chicago(May 1997), an M.A. in English from theUniversity of Missouri(May 1993), an M.A. in Communication fromStanford University(May 1991), and a B.A. in Professional and Creative Writing fromCarnegie Mellon University.
He is best known for his studies ofJ. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly work onBeowulfand the precursors and textual evolution of the essayBeowulf: the Monsters and the Critics,published asBeowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien(2002), which won theMythopoeic Awardfor Scholarship in Inklings Studies, 2003.[1]
He is the editor of theJ.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment(2007), a one-volume reference on Tolkien's works and their contexts.[2]
With the Tolkien scholarsDouglas A. AndersonandVerlyn Flieger,he is co-editor ofTolkien Studies:An Annual Scholarly Review,(Volumes 1–7, 2004–2010).
Books
[edit]Books written or edited by Michael Drout include:
- 2002, (editor),Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien,Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 248 (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), Tempe, AZ,ISBN0-86698-290-6
- 2007, (editor),J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment(New York; London: Routledge, 2007),ISBN9780415969420;reprinted 2013,ISBN9781135880347
Audio
[edit]Drout has published thirteen audio lectures forRecorded Books' Modern Scholar Series. He has both a love of theAnglo-Saxon language,and academic expertise in its linguistic basis for the modern English Language; he maintains a growing collection of recorded Anglo-Saxon onAnglo-Saxon Aloud.
References
[edit]- ^"Mythopoeic Awards — 2003".Mythopoeic Society.Retrieved22 July2023.
- ^Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M. (2007)."J.R R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (review)".Tolkien Studies.4(1): 266–278.doi:10.1353/tks.2007.0033.ISSN1547-3163.S2CID146657926.