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Bruce L. Edwards
Bruce L. Edwards (September 5, 1952 – October 28, 2015) was professor emeritus of English and Africana Studies and Associate Vice President for Online Programs and E-learning Services at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he was a faculty member and administrator from 1981 to 2012. He was a leading authority on C. S. Lewis, a British writer and literary scholar.
Edwards was born in Akron, Ohio, where he attended Akron Public Schools. He received an A.A. in Biblical Studies at Florida College in Temple Terrace, Florida, and then his B.A. in English from the University of Missouri–Rolla in Rolla, Missouri, in 1977. In 1979, he received his master's degree in English from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, followed by his Ph.D. in literature and rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, in 1981, where his dissertation was on the literary criticism of C. S. Lewis, a British literary scholar.
He served as a Fulbright Program fellow in Nairobi, Kenya from 1999 to 2000. He taught at Daystar University. In 1988, he was the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
From 1989 to 1990, he was a Bradley Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C..
Edwards was a scholar and expert on C. S. Lewis. In 2007, he served as general editor for the four volume reference set, C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy (Praeger Perspectives, 2007), a comprehensive treatment of C. S. Lewis's life and times with more than 40 worldwide contributors.
He authored two books on Lewis, including A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis’s Defense of Western Literacy, and The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer. He also authored essays about Lewis and the Inklings, and maintained a website on the life and works of C. S. Lewis.
He also published several textbooks for college students, including, Roughdrafts (Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), Processing Words (Prentice Hall, 1988), and Searching for Great Ideas (1st and 2nd editions; Harcourt, 1989; 2nd ed., 1992).
Edwards' authored two books on The Chronicles of Narnia, including Not a Tame Lion (Tyndale, 2005) and Further Up, Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Bruce L. Edwards
Bruce L. Edwards (September 5, 1952 – October 28, 2015) was professor emeritus of English and Africana Studies and Associate Vice President for Online Programs and E-learning Services at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he was a faculty member and administrator from 1981 to 2012. He was a leading authority on C. S. Lewis, a British writer and literary scholar.
Edwards was born in Akron, Ohio, where he attended Akron Public Schools. He received an A.A. in Biblical Studies at Florida College in Temple Terrace, Florida, and then his B.A. in English from the University of Missouri–Rolla in Rolla, Missouri, in 1977. In 1979, he received his master's degree in English from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, followed by his Ph.D. in literature and rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, in 1981, where his dissertation was on the literary criticism of C. S. Lewis, a British literary scholar.
He served as a Fulbright Program fellow in Nairobi, Kenya from 1999 to 2000. He taught at Daystar University. In 1988, he was the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
From 1989 to 1990, he was a Bradley Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C..
Edwards was a scholar and expert on C. S. Lewis. In 2007, he served as general editor for the four volume reference set, C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy (Praeger Perspectives, 2007), a comprehensive treatment of C. S. Lewis's life and times with more than 40 worldwide contributors.
He authored two books on Lewis, including A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis’s Defense of Western Literacy, and The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer. He also authored essays about Lewis and the Inklings, and maintained a website on the life and works of C. S. Lewis.
He also published several textbooks for college students, including, Roughdrafts (Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), Processing Words (Prentice Hall, 1988), and Searching for Great Ideas (1st and 2nd editions; Harcourt, 1989; 2nd ed., 1992).
Edwards' authored two books on The Chronicles of Narnia, including Not a Tame Lion (Tyndale, 2005) and Further Up, Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
