Michael D. C. Drout
Michael D. C. Drout 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.Career
Drout holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago, an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri, an M.A. in Communication from Stanford University, 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 ', published as Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien, which won the Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship in Inklings Studies, 2003.
He is the editor of the ', 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,.Books
Books written or edited by Michael Drout include:
- 2002,, Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 248, Tempe, AZ,
- 2007,, J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, ; 0415969425
- 2013,, J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, Taylor & Francis,, 9781135880347
Audio
Michael Drout has published thirteen audio lectures for Recorded Books' Modern Scholar Series:
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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 .
