Michael DC Drout
Michael DC Drout (born May 3, 1968 ) is an American English student
life and work
After completing a bachelor's degree in creative writing, Drout studied communications at Stanford University and English at the University of Missouri-Columbia as a master's degree. In 1997 he received his PhD with a thesis on Old English from Loyola University Chicago . From 1997 to 2003 he was Assistant Professor of English and since 2003 Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton , Massachusetts.
His main research interests are Old English and Middle English literature, science fiction and fantasy , especially the works of JRR Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin . Drout's most famous writings include his work on Beowulf and his research into the precursors and textual development of Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics , an essay by JRR Tolkien. Both works were published by Drout as Beowulf and the critics , for which he received the Mythopoeic Award in 2003 .
Drout also wrote the JRR Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment , a one-volume encyclopedia of Tolkien's works. In 2004 he began to co- edit the journal Tolkien Studies with Douglas A. Anderson and Verlyn Flieger .
Fonts (selection)
- (Associate Editor) Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review , No. 4, 2007, West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1-933202-26-2
- JRR Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment , Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0-415-96942-5
- 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 0-86698-350-3
- (Ed.): Beowulf and the Critics by JRR Tolkien (= Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 248). Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ 2002, ISBN 0-86698-290-6
Audio
Michael Drout published six audio lectures for the Recorded Books' Modern Scholar series:
- Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
- From Here to Infinity: An Explanation of Science Fiction Literature
- A Way With Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion
- History of the English Language
- A Way With Words II: Approaches to Literature
Web links
- Homepage at Wheaton College
- Overview of Drout's employment and publications
- Michael DC Drouts homepage
- Michael DC Drout in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Drout, Michael DC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American college professor of English |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1968 |