Diana Pavlac Glyer

Diana Pavlac Glyer, Ph.D., is a of English at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. Her field of interest is the creative process, particularly the way that creativity thrives within small groups and creative clusters. She has published extensively on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Joy Davidman, and the Inklings.

She holds degrees in art, education, literature, and composition: a B.A. and B.S. from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; an M.S. from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois; and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Glyer has written the new standard work on the Inklings writing group, The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, was published by Kent State University Press in March 2007.

Her scholarly articles about C.S. Lewis, the Inklings, and associated writers include:

"C. S. Lewis Scholarship: A Bibliographic Overview" (with David Bratman) in C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, Legacy, edited by Bruce L. Edwards, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007.

"More Than a Bandersnatch: The Influence of the Inklings on Tolkien’s Middle-Earth in Tolkien Centenary Conference Proceedings, Oxford, England, 1994. Paper.

"Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis: Two Approaches to Creativity and Calling" in SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, 2004. Article (with Laura K. Simmons).

"A Reader’s Guide to Books about C. S. Lewis" in The Pilgrim's Guide: C.S. Lewis and the Art of Witness, ed. D. Mills, Eerdmans, 1998. Book chapter.

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