Jonathan D. Evans

Jonathan Evans was born in Winona Lake, Indiana and grew up in Flora, Kokomo, and Peru, Indiana. He was graduated from Maconaquah High School in rural Miami County Indiana and attended Asbury College in Kentucky, receiving the B.A. in English Literature in 1976. He received the M.A. (1978), Graduate Certificate in Medieval Studies (1982), and the Ph.D. in British Literature (1984), from Indiana University, Bloomington. Since 1984 he has been a member of the University of Georgia Department of English (Visiting Assistant Professor, 1984-85; Assistant Professor, 1985-1990; Associate Professor, 1990-present); he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Emory University in Fall Semester, 2006). He currently directs the UGA Medieval Studies Program and is Graduate Coordinator of the UGA Linguistics Program. His current book project is "An Introduction to Old English," a grammar and reader for use in the classroom and by independent scholars. A life-long reader of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Evans wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the dragon and dragon-slayer myth in Old English and Old Norse literature, exhuming dozens of hitherto unnoticed Scandinavian analogues of the dragon-slayer myth in "Beowulf." Many of his publications concern aspects of dragon-lore in Medieval literature and in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. For further information, see: www.english.uga.edu/directory/486/detail www.english.uga.edu/~jdmevans/Personal/home.html