Diana Pavlac Glyer


Diana Pavlac Glyer is an American author, speaker, and teacher whose work centers on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Inklings. She teaches in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University in California.

Education

Glyer received a B.S. in Education and a B.A. in English and Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University. She received her M.S. in Education from Northern Illinois University, and her Ph.D in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Glyer also did coursework in Composition Studies at Purdue University and the University of New Hampshire, where she studied under Robert J. Connors and Donald Murray.

Publications

Glyer has published widely, including contributions to dozens of books and periodicals. Her best-known work is The Company They Keep, which describes the interaction and creative influence of Lewis, Tolkien and the Inklings. It features an appendix by scholar David Bratman. Published in 2007, the book overturned assumptions held for more than 30 years. It was recognized as a landmark study. The Company They Keep won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award and was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Related Work at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention.
Glyer is also the author of Clay in the Potter's Hands and Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings. Bandersnatch, published in 2016, applies the scholarly work of The Company They Keep to creative writing groups. It encourages them to function collaboratively, as the Inklings did.

Awards

The Company They Keep won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award, the APU Scholarly Achievement Award, and the Imperishable Flame Award for Tolkien Studies. It was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Related Work at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention.
Glyer has also received the Marion E. Wade Center's Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant, and Azusa Pacific University's Chase Sawtell Inspirational Teaching Award, Scholarly Achievement Award, and APU’s Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. She was the Scholar Guest of Honor for the 40th Annual Mythopoeic Conference, UCLA 2009.

Science fiction activity

Glyer has been active in science fiction fandom since 1973 and has worked on dozens of conventions. In 1985, she chaired Mythcon XVI at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. In 1998, she chaired Mythcon XXIX, the C.S. Lewis Centenary Celebration at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois