What are you currently reading?
- Marilynne Robinson, Home
- Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution
What are your five favourite texts?
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Iris Murdoch, The Bell
- Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge
- John Macmurray, Reason and Emotion
- Shakespeare, Othello
What are the top five texts that you find to be the most useful for teaching?
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosophical Hermeneutics
- Rowan Williams, Grace and Necessity: Reflections on art and love
What texts have you had the most fun researching?
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls
- Peter Martyr Vermigli, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans
- entries on literature and poetry for Zondervan's Dictionary of Christian Spirituality
What would you be if you weren't an English professor?
Perhaps by now I would have what Seamus Heaney calls "the unfussy ease of a good tradesman."
