Sam McBride Ph.D.

Education: 

  • Ph.D. (English), University of California, Riverside, 1997.
  • M.A. (English), 草莓视频, Riverside, 1987.
  • B.A. (Communication), Southern Adventist University, 1981.

Principal Research Interests

Sam McBride's primary area of research is "the Inklings," C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their writings. His first book, "Women Among the Inklings" (co-authored with Candice Fredrick, 2001), was a gender analysis of these authors' lives and books. More recently, Tolkien's Cosmology (2020) examines the work of divine beings in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. McBride's current research project is a book addressing women in the life of C. S. Lewis.

Additionally, McBride has published research in postmodern performance art, particularly the work of Laurie Anderson. This research emphasizes works in disciplines such as music, theater, art, and dance that blur the boundaries between those fields and literature.


Research Area: 

  • Twentieth-Century Literature
  • Literature and the Arts
  • Literature and Religion
  • Postmodern Theory
  • Unnatural Narrative

AWARDS

  • Distinguished Teaching Award, 草莓视频, June 2011
  • Certificate of Excellence, DeVry University, October 2002
  • Merit Award, DeVry University, October 2001
  • Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, DeVry University, February 1999 

Representative Publications

BOOK:

  1. Women Among the Inklings: Feminism, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (co-authored with Candice Fredrick). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. 
  2. Tolkien's Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2020.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES:

  1. "Stewards of Arda: Creation and Sustenance in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium." Ecotheology in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature. Ed. Melissa Brotton. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. 139-155
  2. "'in th'Immensity of Nature and the Metaphysical in the Landscape of Richard Lewis's 'A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis," with Lora Geriguis and Melissa Brotton. Early American Literature 51.1, 41-69
  3. 鈥淧syche鈥檚 Ugly Sister: The Woman Warrior in C. S. Lewis鈥檚 Till We Have Faces.鈥 Sirens: Collected Papers 2009鈥2011. Hallie Tibbetts, ed. Sedalia, CO: Narrate Conferences, 2012. 106-116. 
  4. 鈥淭he Company They Didn鈥檛 Keep: C. S. Lewis鈥檚 Collaboration with Women.鈥 Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature. 29.1/2 (Fall/Winter 2010): 69-86. 
  5. 鈥淏attling the Woman Warrior: Women and Combat in C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien鈥 (co-authored with Candice Fredrick). Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 25.3/4 (2007): 29-42. 
  6. 鈥淐oming of Age in Narnia.鈥 Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis鈥 Chronicles. Ed. Shanna Caughey. Dallas: BenBella, 2005. 59-72. 
  7. 鈥淩econceiving God: Luce Irigaray鈥檚 鈥楧ivine Women.鈥欌 Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations about God. Ed. John C. Hawley. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2000. 208-222.
  8. 鈥淯n-Splitting the Subject/Object: Laurie Anderson's Phenomenology of Perception.鈥 Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture. Ed. Michael T. Carroll and Eddie Tafoya. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green St U Popular P, 2000. 79-96. 
  9. 鈥淯n-Reason and the Ex-Centric Text: Methods of Madness in Kathy Acker's Great Expectations.鈥 Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 40.4 (Summer 1999): 342-354. Rpt in: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 191. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 342-354. 
  10. 鈥淛ustifying the Ways of Milton to Man: C. S. Lewis's A Preface to 鈥楶aradise Lost.鈥欌 The Lamp-Post (Autumn 1996): 4-16. 
  11. 鈥淔rames for the Pictures: Boundaries in/as (the Work of) Laurie Anderson,鈥 Postscript 1.2 (Winter 1994): 93-114. 

REFERENCE WORKS:

  1. 鈥淪usan Howe.鈥 A Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmilman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. 
  2. 鈥淛.R.R. Tolkien鈥檚 The Lord of the Rings.鈥 Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. Ed. Mary R. Reichardt. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.
  3. 鈥淔lannery O鈥機onnor.鈥 Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Mary R. Reichardt. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. 

ONLINE SCHOLARLY JOURNAL:

  1. 鈥淪ing the Body Electronic: American Invention and Contemporary Performance.鈥 Sycamore 1.3 (Dec. 1997). Online. Internet. No longer available online. 

PUBLISHED BIBLIOGRAPHIES:

  1. 鈥淒ocumenting a Performance Artist: A Laurie Anderson Bibliography.鈥 Bulletin of Bibliography Part 1 - 53.3 (September 1996): 187-207. Part 2 - 53.4 (December 1996): 391-412. 
  2. 鈥淐. S. Lewis鈥檚 A Preface to 鈥楶aradise Lost鈥, The Milton Controversy, and Lewis Scholarship.鈥 The Bulletin of Bibliography 52.4 (December 1995): 317-331.

BRIEF PUBLICATIONS:

  1. 鈥淔emale Metaphors in the Bible.鈥 (with Lora Geriguis, Melissa Brotton, Maury Jackson, and Kendra Haloviak-Valentine). Spectrum 40.2 (Spring 2012): 13-27.
  2. 鈥淭he Fall and Twentieth-Century Culture.鈥 (with Lora Geriguis and Melissa Brotton). Spectrum 39.2 (Spring 2011): 44-46. 
  3. 鈥淐opyright Law and Electronic Media鈥 (Letter to the Editor). The Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Nov. 1998: B11.