C.S. Lewis focus
Edwards was a scholar and expert on C. S. Lewis. In 2007, he served as general editor for the four volume reference set, C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy (Praeger Perspectives, 2007), a comprehensive treatment of C. S. Lewis's life and times with more than 40 worldwide contributors.
He authored two books on Lewis, including A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis’s Defense of Western Literacy, and The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer. He also authored essays about Lewis and the Inklings, and maintained a website on the life and works of C. S. Lewis.
He also published several textbooks for college students, including, Roughdrafts (Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), Processing Words (Prentice Hall, 1988), and Searching for Great Ideas (1st and 2nd editions; Harcourt, 1989; 2nd ed., 1992).
Edwards' authored two books on The Chronicles of Narnia, including Not a Tame Lion (Tyndale, 2005) and Further Up, Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In 2005, he was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays grant to take a contingent of public and private educators to Tanzania for six weeks with the goal of establishing internet-based educational opportunities for both Midwestern U.S. and Tanzanian students.