She was the Scholar Guest of Honor for the 40th Annual Mythopoeic Conference, UCLA 2009.

Kilby Research Grant (1997), Azusa Pacific University's Chase Sawtell Inspirational Teaching Award (2002), APU's Scholarly Achievement Award (2008) and APU's Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award (2014).

It was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Related Work at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention.įor her work, Glyer has received many awards, including the Marion E. The Company They Keep won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (Inklings Studies), the APU Scholarly Achievement Award (2008) and the Imperishable Flame Award for Tolkien Studies. Bandersnatch, published in 2016, applies the scholarly work of The Company They Keep to creative writing groups, encouraging them to function collaboratively just as the Inklings did. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings (2016). Glyer is also the author of Clay in the Potter's Hands (2011) and Bandersnatch: C. The Company They Keep won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (Inklings Studies) and was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Related Work at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention. Published in 2007, the book overturned assumptions held for more than 30 years. It has an appendix by the scholar David Bratman. Her best-known work is The Company They Keep, which describes the interaction and creative influence of C.S. Glyer has published widely, including contributions to dozens of books and periodicals. Glyer also did coursework in composition studies at Purdue University and the University of New Hampshire, where she studied under Robert J.

in education from Northern Illinois University and her PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. in English and fine arts from Bowling Green State University. She teaches in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University in California. University of Illinois at Chicago ( PhD)ĭiana Pavlac Glyer (born 21 January 1956 in Aberdeen, Maryland) is an American author, speaker and teacher whose work centers on C.

Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer