Ralph C. Wood is a professor of English literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author of The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists. A number of his essays and articles on, among others, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and G. K. Chesterton are available through his web page.
Ralph C. Wood has also been featured on the MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation "Maker of Middle-Earth." A short description of this Conversation is listed here.
Ralph C. Wood is featured on the bonus track for Volume 49, where he talks about how Tolkien viewed the use and meaning of human language. Click here to listen to the segment. (Left click to stream; right click to save.)
Flannery O'Connor MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation
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Ralph C. Wood, on Flannery O'Connor as "hill-billy Thomist" and sympathizer with backwoods religion (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-073.2.3
Ralph C. Wood, on the disappointing discrepancies between Peter Jackson's films and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-066.2.3
Ralph C. Wood, on the place of the seven virtues in J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of the moral life in The Lord of the Rings (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-064.2.1
Ralph C. Wood, on the Christian achievement of detective novelist P. D. James (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-054.1.3
Ralph C. Wood, on the peculiar heroism of Frodo Baggins of Bag End (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-049.2.4
Ralph C. Wood, on the backslidden comedy of novelist Peter De Vries (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-005.2.2
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