Bruce L. Edwards (September 5, 1952 – October 28, 2015) was professor emeritus of English and Africana Studies and Associate Vice President for Online Programs and E-learning Services at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he was a faculty member and administrator from 1981 to 2012.

In 1979, he received his master's degree in English from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, followed by his Ph.D. in literature and rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, in 1981, where his dissertation was on the literary criticism of C. S. Lewis, a British literary scholar.

From 1989 to 1990, he was a Bradley Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.. 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 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).