Professor Biography

Angus Fletcher, Ph.D.

Professor of English and Film, The Ohio State University

A
ngus Fletcher is a Professor of English and Film at The
Ohio State University and a core faculty member at Project
Narrative. He has previously taught at Stanford University,
the University of Southern California, and Yale University. He holds
a Ph.D. in English from Yale.

Professor Fletcher is the author of more than a dozen feature

screenplays and television pilots, including a J. R. R. Tolkien biopic for
the producers of The Lord of the Rings series, an adaptation of The
Longest Journey for the estate of E. M. Forster, and an adaptation of
The Variable Man for the estate of Philip K. Dick.

Professor Fletcher’s academic research into story science has been

funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has received teaching
awards from Yale and the University of Southern California, and he was
listed as one of Hollywood’s top educators by Variety magazine.

Professor Fletcher’s most recent academic book is Comic Democracies:

From Ancient Athens to the American Republic. He has also authored
more than two dozen academic articles for Narrative, Critical Inquiry,
New Literary History, and other leading journals on literary and
narrative theory.

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