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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Eulogy for my father, David I. Drout, MD

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The eulogy I gave for my father on Saturday. David I. Drout, MD 1946-2020 When my daughter Rhys was about six ye...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Summer 2015 Lexomics Research Team

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Anglo-Saxon Medicine

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By now you may have heard about the team from Nottingham that tested an Anglo-Saxon remedy for an eye-stye and found that it killed methicil...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Stare at it long enough, and you can see through a brick wall

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The data has been staring me in the face for a year or more and it just didn't sink in until today: The rolling window analysis of tho...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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Many variants of the story Sigurd the Völsung survive from the Middle Ages, and all of them are not quite right. Taking the texts and refere...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

A major source of problems on campus

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Resolved: That treating college students as children rather than adults is the cause of many significant problems in contemporary higher edu...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

J.R.R. Tolkien's Beowulf Translation

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Some quick thoughts (more to come as I think more about the volume): The translation itself is not a great piece of art. It is not poetic ...
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I am Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., where I teach Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, medieval literature, fantasy, science fiction and writing. I am also a Millicent C. McIntosh Fellow. My scholarship is focused on tenth-century English literature and culture, meme-based theories of culture, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
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