Michael Ward CV 2021

Michael Ward is a British scholar who holds several academic positions related to theology and apologetics. He received his doctorate from the University of St Andrews for his thesis on Christology and cosmology in C.S. Lewis' works. Ward frequently lectures in the UK and US on theological imagination and has authored books on C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. He has experience supervising doctoral students at Oxford and examining dissertations at several universities.

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MICHAEL WARD

Nationality: British Date of birth: 6th January 1968 Website: www.michaelward.net

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PRESENT POSITIONS

1. Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, and Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology
and Religion, University of Oxford
2. Professor of Apologetics, Houston Baptist University, Texas
3. Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hillsdale College, Michigan

Public speaking. I speak frequently and extensively both in the United Kingdom and the United States,
where I have given addresses in nearly forty of the fifty States. Venues have included Westminster
Abbey, the Royal Observatory, the Library of Congress, Stanford University, University of Chicago,
Brown University. Other countries where I have lectured include Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark,
Spain, Romania, China, and South Korea.

Supervising and examining. I co-supervised an Oxford doctoral thesis on Dorothy L. Sayers

(completed 2017), and am currently co-supervising two Oxford doctorates on C.S. Lewis (both to be
submitted in 2021). I have served both as assessor and examiner for the Faculty of Theology and
Religious Studies at Oxford, most recently in 2020. I have examined doctoral dissertations completed
at King’s College, London (twice: once in 2015, once in 2016); at Manchester University (2013); and
at Witwatersrand University, South Africa (2013).

EDUCATION

2001-2005 St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews

2005 Doctor of Philosophy in Divinity. Thesis entitled: ‘The Son and the Other Stars:
Christology and Cosmology in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis’
1999-2004 Ridley Hall, Cambridge Theological Federation
2004 Certificate in Theology
1999-2001 Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
2001 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Theology and Religious Studies (Master of Arts, 2005)
1987-1990 Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
1990 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Language and Literature (Master of Arts, 1995)

AWARDS / DISTINCTIONS

2015 Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, Hillsdale College, Michigan

2011 Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies, for Planet Narnia
2006 Kilby Research Grant, Wheaton College, Illinois, for research into theological imagination
2000 Winchester Reading Prize, University of Cambridge, for public speaking
1990 Anthony Phillips Memorial Prize, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, for best degree result
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

2009-2012 Chaplain, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford

2008-2009 Lecturer and broadcaster. From January 2008, when OUP published my doctoral
monograph, I lectured throughout Britain and America on the subject of theological
imagination. Venues included the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews,
Edinburgh, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Chicago. The BBC commissioned a one-hour
TV documentary about my work, called The Narnia Code, broadcast on BBC1 in 2009.
2004-2007 Chaplain (with a term as Acting Dean), Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
1996-1999 Resident Warden and Curator of The Kilns, C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home
1993-1999 Tutor and lecturer in Theology and English: selections from portfolio include:
i) tutor for the Oxford programs of Williams College, Massachusetts;
Stanford University, California; and Taylor University, Indiana
ii) keynote lecturer, Lewis Centenary Conference, Örebro Seminary, Sweden
iii) tutor for St Benet’s Hall and Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
iv) lecturing at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford
Copy-editor and proof-reader for Heinemann Publishing; The Medical Research
Council; Lion Publishing; The Bible Reading Fellowship
Film and TV Extra, including a speaking part in the BBC2 drama, A Very Open
Prison, and a featured cameo in the James Bond movie, The World is Not Enough
1990-1993 Freelance writer (articles, screenplays, Bible study aids, etc)

VOCATION HISTORY

2018 ordained priest in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

2017 ordained deacon in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
2012 received into the Catholic Church
2005 ordained priest in the Church of England
2004 ordained deacon in the Church of England
1999-2004 ordinand at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, with placements at Peterhouse; Little St Mary’s;
Clare College (with a year as Decani Scholar); and St Mary’s, Godmanchester

OTHER CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assistant priest (part-time, non-stipendiary), North Hinksey Parish, Oxford

• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Seven, An Anglo-American Literary Review
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Journal of Inklings Studies
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal
• Senior Adviser, Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society