Michael D. C. Drout
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Michael D. C. Drout (1968- ) is the Prentice Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and an author and editor specialzing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. LeGuin.
Drout holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago (May 1997). an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia (May 1993) and an M.A. in Communication from Stanford University (May 1991).
He is best known for his studies of Tolkien's scholarly work on Beowulf and the precursors and textual evolution of the essay Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics, published as Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien (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 and Verlyn Flieger, he is co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, (Volume 1, 2004; Volume 2, 2005; and Volume 3, 2006).
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Books written or edited by Michael Drout include:
- 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 Medieval and Renaissance Texts and 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 Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), Tempe, AZ (2002) ISBN 0-8669-8290-6
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[edit] References
- Faculty page at Wheaton College
- Michael D. C. Drout's Vita
- Tolkien Studies bibilographic information at Muse
