Guest Lecture Series Michael Drout – Lexonomic Analysis of Beowulf

<h3>Michael D. C. Drout</h3> <h4><b>Lexomic Analysis of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Scholarship on the Poem: A Confluence</b></h4> <a href="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/02/NewDroutCoverPhoto.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-8142 alignleft" src="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/02/NewDroutCoverPhoto-200x300.jpg" alt="NewDroutCoverPhoto" width="200" height="300" /></a><a href="http://michaeldrout.com/"><strong>Michael Drout</strong></a> is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He has published several books of scholarship on Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon literature in general, and <em>Beowulf</em> in particular, including <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/J-R-R-Tolkien-Encyclopedia-Scholarship-Assessment/dp/0415865115/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423356926&sr=1-2"><em>J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Men-Tolkien-Fantasy-Literature/dp/0760785236/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423356926&sr=1-3"><em>Of Sorcerers and Men: Tolkien and the Roots of Modern Fantasy Literature</em></a>, and <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Beowulf-Critics-Medieval-Renaissance-Studies/dp/0866982906/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423356926&sr=1-4"><em>Beowulf and the Critics.</em></a> He is active in the promotion and dissemination of spoken Old English texts, and has himself made many recordings of Old English poetry and prose. His important work at Wheaton College’s Lexomics Research Group has led to the development of new, computer-assisted methods of textual analysis. Michael Drout's guest lecture for the Mythgard Academy is titled "Lexomic Analysis of <em>Beowulf</em> and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Scholarship on the Poem: A Confluence."   <strong>Recordings from March 23, 2015:</strong> <em>Watch: </em><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mythgardacademy/GuestLectureSeries/2015-03-23_LexomicAnalysisofBeowulfMichaelDrout.mp4">Guest Lecture Video</a> <i>Listen:</i> <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mythgardacademy/GuestLectureSeries/2015-03-23_LexomicAnalysisofBeowulfMichaelDrout.mp3">Guest Lecture Audio</a>