Michael D. C. Drout

Michael D. C. Drout
Born	(1968-05-03)May 3, 1968
Occupation	Literary criticandauthor
Nationality	American
Period	2002–present
Genre	Fantasy Anglo-Saxon literature Medieval literature Science fiction
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

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.

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.

With the Tolkien scholarsDouglas A. AndersonandVerlyn Flieger,he is co-editor ofTolkien Studies:An Annual Scholarly Review,(Volumes 1–7, 2004–2010).

Books

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

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.

External links

• Faculty page at Wheaton College
• Michael D. C. Drout'sVita
• Tolkien Studies bibliographic information at Muse

• Michael D. C. Drout's personal home page