Matthew Wickman is a professor of English at Brigham Young University. He served as the founding director of the BYU Humanities Center the past 10 years and is currently the host of this podcast, while also being the associate coordinator of BYU’s Faith and Imagination Institute. Matthew published an evocative book this year entitled “Life to the Whole Being, the Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor”, and his friend George Handley, professor of Comparative Literature at BYU and former podcast guest, offered to turn the tables on Matt today and interview him about his new book.
Feelings of self-transcendence, of connectedness to God, others, and the world, are widely seen as a principal feature of spiritual well-being. So when pandemic...
John Gatta is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and University of the South, Sewanee. At that latter institution he held,...
Charles LaPorte is Professor of English at the University of Washington and the author of two excellent books on the intersection of literature and...