Michael D.C. Drout
From Tolkien Gateway
Michael D.C. Drout (born May 1968) is a professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wheaton College in Newton, Massachusetts. He is considered to be an expert in the field of J.R.R. Tolkien scholarship. Along with Douglas A. Anderson and Verlyn Flieger, Drout is a founding editor of Tolkien Studies, an annual scholarly journal.
Bibliography
Books
- 2002: Beowulf and the Critics (editor)
- 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
- 2011: Beowulf and the Critics (new edition)
Journals, editor
- 2004: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 1 (co-editor)
- 2005: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 2 (co-editor)
- 2006: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 3 (co-editor)
- 2007: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 4 (co-editor)
- 2008: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 5 (co-editor)
- 2009: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 6 (co-editor)
Articles
- 2002: The Medieval Academy of America [web site]
- "Wrong about almost everything: Editing J.R.R. Tolkien" [web article]
- 2004: Tolkien Studies: Volume 1
- "Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects"
- 2006: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004
- "The Rhetorical Evolution of Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"
