Michael D.C. Drout is the William and Elsie Prentice Professor of English at
Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in Old
and Middle English, medieval literature, Chaucer, fantasy, and science fiction.
Professor Drout received his Ph.D. in medieval literature from Loyola
University in 1997. He also holds M.A. degrees from Stanford (journalism)
and the University of Missouri-Columbia (English literature) and a B.A. from
Carnegie Mellon.
In 2006, Professor Drout was chosen as a Millicent C. McIntosh Fellow by the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation. In 2005, he was awarded the Prentice
Professorship for outstanding teaching. The Wheaton College class of 2003
presented him with the Faculty Appreciation Award in that year. He is editor of
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beowulf and the Critics, which won the Mythopoeic
Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies for 2003. He is also the author of How
Tradition Works: A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of the Anglo-Saxon Tenth
Century (Arizona Medieval and Renaissance Studies). Drout is one of the
founding editors of the journal Tolkien Studies and is editor of The J.R.R.
Tolkien Encyclopedia (Routledge).
Drout has published extensively on medieval literature, including articles on
William Langland’s Piers Plowman, Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon wills, the Old
English translation of the Rule of Chrodegang, the Exeter Book “wisdom
poems,” and Anglo-Saxon medical texts. He has also published articles on
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books and Susan Cooper’s Dark Is Rising
series of children’s fantasy novels. Drout has written an Old English grammar
book, King Alfred’s Grammar, which is available for free at his website,
www.michaeldrout.com. He has given lectures in England, Finland, Italy,
Canada, and throughout the United States.
Drout lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, with his wife Raquel D’Oyen, their
daughter Rhys, and their son Mitchell.
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