Lecturer Profile : Michael Underwood

M.A. English, San Diego State University.

Michael Underwood is a lecturer and Writing Tutorial Program Director for Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University. He teaches a range of rhetoric courses including 100, 200, 305W and 596. He has presented 3 paneled papers at Mythopoeic Conferences and published a collaboratively written essay with William Rogers III: "Gagool and Gollum: Exemplars of Degeneration in King Solomon's Mines and The Hobbit," published in Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle Earth. His scholarly interests besides the teaching of rhetoric are in British Literature especially Medieval, Victorian, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.