Chad Chisholm

Chad Chisholm
Biographical information
Born	27 July 1978
Education	University of Texas at Arlington Clemson University University of Mississippi
Occupation	Professor
Location	Memphis area, USA

Chad Chisholm (27 July 1978) is a teacher of English at Rust College (Holly Springs, Mississippi). In 2008, Chisholm was named instructor of the year by Rust president David L. Beckley and by the United Methodist Board of Higher Education. Chisholm has written several articles on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the Inklings. Much of his present scholarship springs from John Poulakos's theory of rhetorical possibility, and Chisholm is working on a book that uses C.S. Lewis' ideas on children's storytelling to develop a theory of possibility to reexamine classical children's literature. In 2013, Chisholm was awarded a UTA dissertation fellowship to complete his dissertation on "rhetoric-oriented approaches to juvenile texts.”

Bibliography, selected

Articles

• 2008: Mallorn 45
  • "Winston and Frodo: Demons, Choices and Grace in The Lord of the Rings"
• 2010: Mallorn 50
  • "The wizard and the rhetor: rhetoric and the ethos of Middle-earth in The Hobbit"

Reviews

• 2009: Mallorn 48:
  • "Hunting Peter Jackson"
• 2010: Mallorn 49:
  • "The Shape of a Story"
• 2010: Mallorn 50:
  • "Flights of Fantasy"
• 2010: Festival in the Shire:
  • "Inking and Mapping The Inklings of Oxford"
• 2011: Mallorn 51:
  • "Keeping the Faith"
• 2011: Mallorn 52:
  • "The lion, the witch, and the baffled producers"
• 2013: Mallorn 54:
  • "Death of The Hobbit"

Lectures

• 2010: Festival in the Shire
  • "Born of Many Hopes"
• 2012: Festival in the Shire:
  • "Roger Lancelyn Green and the Possibilities of Literature"