Michael D. C. Drout


Michael D. C. Drout is an American 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 Guin.

Career

Drout holds a PhD in English from Loyola University Chicago, an MA in English from the University of Missouri, an MA in Communication from Stanford University, and a BA in Professional and Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is best known for his studies of J. R. R. 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, 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], a one-volume reference on Tolkien's works and their contexts.
With the Tolkien scholars Douglas Anderson and Verlyn Flieger, he is co-editor of Tolkien Studies,.

Books

Books written or edited by Drout include:
Drout has published thirteen audio lectures for Recorded Books' Modern Scholar Series. He has both a 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 .