Bradley J. Birzer

Dr. Bradley J. Birzer is an American scholar. He is the Amos Kirk Chair in history and director of American studies at Hillsdale College, Michigan. Though his main focus is American politics of the Jacksonian era, as well as the Civil War and the Indian Wars, he has published several articles and one book about J.R.R. Tolkien, mainly focusing on Christianity.

Bibliography

Books

• 2002: J.R.R. Tolkiens Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth

Articles

• 2001: New Oxford Review
  • "'The Only Just Literary Critic': The Christian Gifts of J.R.R. Tolkien"
• 2003: Christian History
  • (issue #2): "Tolkien: Man Behind the Myth"
• 2004: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, entries
  • "Aquinas, Thomas"
  • "Catholicism, Roman"
  • "Christian Readings of Tolkien"
  • "Christianity"
  • "Eru"
  • "Fall of Man"
  • "Resurrection"
  • "Saint John"

Lectures

• 2001: "Both rings were round, and there the resemblance eases": Tolkien, Wagner, Nationalism, and Modernity
• Undated: "Tolkien's Worlds: Judeo-Christian Faerie Tales"
  • Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Milton Waldman
  • Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Robert Murray
  • Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Robert Murray (draft)
  • Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Michael Straight
  • Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Eileen Elgar
  • Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Charlotte and Denis Plimmer

External links

• Bradley J. Birzer at Centre for the American Idea
• Bradley J. Birzer at Mackinac Centre for Public Policy