Bruce L. Edwards
Bruce L. Edwards (September 5, 1952 – October 28, 2015) was an American Professor Emeritus of English and Africana Studies. He also served as 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 between 1981-2012.
Bruce L. Edwards | |
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 Edwards in 2007 | |
| Born | September 5, 1952 Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | October 28, 2015 (aged 63) Katy, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar and professor |
| Spouse |
Joan Christine Edwards
(m. 1973–2015) |
| Children | Four |
Early life and education
Edwards was born in Akron, Ohio, attending 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, his master's degree in English from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1979, and 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.
Career
He served as Fulbright Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya from 1999 to 2000, taught t Daystar University, and was a Bradley Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. from 1989 to 1990, and was the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at the University of Queensland in Brisbane in 1988.
C. S. Lewis focus
He served as general editor for the 2007 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. His books on The Chronicles of Narnia: Not a Tame Lion (Tyndale, 2005) and Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, were well received, and he published two previous 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; and he was also a contributor to many collections of essays about Lewis and the Inklings, and for many years maintained a web site on the life and works of C. S. Lewis (https://web.archive.org/web/20180809163406/http://cslewisreview.org/). Edwards also published several successful textbooks for college audiences, including, Roughdrafts (Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), Processing Words (Prentice-Hall, 1988), and Searching for Great Ideas (1st and 2nd editions; Harcourt, 1989; 1992).
Edwards was the recipient of a 1990-2000 Fulbright Program fellowship in Kenya, as well as a 2005 Fulbright-Hays Grant that allowed him to take a contingent of public and private educators to Tanzania for six weeks in the summer of 2005 to establish internet-based educational opportunities for both Midwestern U.S. and Tanzanian students.
Personal life and death
Edwards and his wife, Joan, lived in Willow, Alaska, following his 2012 retirement. They had four children. He died on October 28, 2015 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm while on a trip to Texas.[1]
References
- Zaborney, Mark (November 5, 2015). "Bruce Edwards: 1952-2015; B.G. professor noted authority on 'Narnia'". The Blade. Toledo, Ohio. Retrieved November 5, 2015.