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October 18, 2024
Education
Ph.D.
Religious Studies, Department of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2022
M.T.S.
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2017
B.A.
Summa cum laude, Classical Languages and Theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, 2015
Professional Experience
2022–present
Assistant Professor and Fellow of the Core, Department of the Core, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
Forthcoming
“Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion,” in Maximus in the Latin West, edited by Kevin Clarke and Thomas Cattoi (Brill: Leiden).
2021
“Catechisms, Communion, and Latin Scholastic Reception of Byzantine Thought: St. John Damascene’s De fide orthodoxa in St. Bonaventure’s Breviloquium.” Nova et Vetera, 19.4 (Fall 2021).
Book Reviews
2021
“Michael W. Lucas’s Absolute FreeBSD (3rd Edition): A Scholar’s Review,” FreeBSD Journal, July/August.
2021
Kantzer Komline, Han-Luen. Augustine on the Will: A Theological Account. Thomistica. August 14.
2018
Blackwell, Ben C. Christosis: Engaging Paul’s Soteriology with His Patristic Interpreters. Theological Studies, vol. 79, 3: pp. 683-684. August 22.
2018
Stock, Brian. The Integrated Self: Augustine, The Bible, and Ancient Thought. Theological Studies, vol. 79, 2: pp. 435-437. May 29.
Other Publications
2023
“C is to BSD what Latin is to Us: A Theologian’s Report of His Trip to Present at BSDCan 2023,” FreeBSD Journal, July/August.
2021
“FreeBSD for the Writing Scholar,” FreeBSD Journal, January/February.
2018
“Meditations on the Lord’s Prayer for Good Friday,” Vulgate Media (vulgatemedia.com), March 28.
2018
“Hans Urs von Balthasar and Praying with the Church Fathers,” Vulgate Media (vulgatemedia.com), March 1.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2024
Conference Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
2023
Conference Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
2021
Hank Fellowship in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Loyola University Chicago
2021
North American Patristics Society’s Dissertation Progress Grant
2021
ULINE Cybersecurity Training Opportunity Grant, Center for Cyber Security & Awareness, Marquette University
2019
Graduate School Research Travel Award, Marquette University
2018
Outstanding Student Paper Prize, 2018 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society
“Integrated Selves in the Image of the Trinity: The Mundicordes in Book 8 of St. Augustine’s De Trinitate”
2018
Graduate School Research Travel Award, Marquette University
2017–2022
Teaching Assistantship, Marquette University
2016
Individual Conference Grant, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Student Forum
2016
Individual Conference Grant, Boston College Graduate Student Association
2015–2017
Dean’s Fellowship, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
Conference Activity
Sessions Organized and Chaired
2025
Digital Humanities Committee’s Practicalities Session: Tutorials in Workflows, Front-end Software, and Efficient Digital Scholarship, 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May
2025
New Frontiers in Maximus the Confessor: Dubious, Spurious, or Lesser-Known Writings, 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May
Co-chair: Kevin Clarke, Ph.D.
2022
Maximus the Confessor in the Medieval Latin West, 2022 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 28
Paper Presented: “Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion”
Papers Presented
2025
“Team-based Medieval History and Language Learning with the Open Source Computer Game 0 A.D.,” Pedagogy and the Medieval in the Digital Age, 60th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (Virtual), May
2024
“Teach History and Languages with a Computer Game: 0 A.D. in the Classroom,” Association for Computers and the Humanities 2024 (ACH2024), Virtual, November 8
2024
“Harmonizing Patrology in the Earliest Greek Scholasticism: Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene on Dionysius’s Theory of Christ’s ‘Theandric Operation,’” International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, August 8
2024
“Summa Tetraodontidae: Thomas Aquinas Explores OpenBSD’s Medieval Orderliness,” BSDCan 2024, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, June 1
2023
“How to Incorporate Real-world Data into the Scholarship-Aware and Libre Computer Game 0 A.D. for Ancient History and Language Instruction,” Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies Unit, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, November 19
2023
“Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene on Dionysius’s Theory of Christ’s ‘Theandric Operation’: A Case Study in Patristic Devotion and Polemics in the Earliest Greek Scholasticism,” Development of Early Christian Theology Unit, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, November 18
2023
“John Damascene as Maximus the Confessor’s Student in De fide orthodoxa 58 and 59,” 2023 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies / Association canadienne des études patristiques, 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto, ON, May 28
2023
“BSD for Researching, Writing, and Teaching in the Liberal Arts,” BSDCan 2023, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, May 20
2022
“A Move Toward the Pervasive Maximianism of the Tertia Pars: Nicetas of Heraclea’s Quotations of Maximus the Confessor in Aquinas’s Catena in Lucam,” Thomas Aquinas II: The Catena aurea, 57th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (Virtual), May 12
2022
“Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion,” St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 10
2021
“‘Et superiorum et posteriorum’: Difficulties Dating St. Augustine’s De consensu evangelistarum,” The 2021 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL (Virtual), May 26
2021
“‘The Power to Save Perfectly’: John Damascene’s De fide orthodoxa 58 & 59 as Mediators of Maximian Soteriology,” Hope and Death, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL (Virtual), February 11
2021
“FOSS for the Professional Historian: Optimizing a Multisource Historical Research Workflow in BSD or GNU/Linux with a Tiling Window Manager and Manuscripts Galore,” Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2021, Brussels, Belgium (Virtual), February 6
2020
“‘Medium tenens’: Summa Theologica III, Q. 2, A. 6 & the Transcendence of Orthodoxy,” Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 8
2019
“‘Puer Jesus proficiebat’: Aquinas’s Disagreement with the Damascene on the Hypostatic Union and Soteriology in Luke 2:52,” Aquinas the Biblical Theologian, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 9
2018
“Integrated Selves in the Image of the Trinity:
The Mundicordes in Book 8 of St. Augustine’s De Trinitate,” The 2018 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Pre-Dissertation Research Workshop, Chicago, IL, May 24–26
Outstanding Student Paper Prize Recipient
2018
“St. John Damascene’s De Fide Orthodoxa in St. Thomas Aquinas’s De Unione Verbi Incarnati,” Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, January 25
2017
“‘Not One Iōta of the Law Will Pass’ or be Changed: St. John Damascene’s De Hymno Trisagio (Chapters 1–7) and Liturgical Orthodoxy,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 13th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 4
2017
“The Holy Mass as Wholly Beautiful: Transformational Aesthetics in the Liturgical Theology of Dom Prosper Guéranger,” Lumen et Vita Fall Symposium 2016, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, MA, November 10
2016
“Different Biblical Versions Show Distinct Christological Truths: St. Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah and the Servant Songs,” Patristic, Medieval, & Renaissance Conference 2016, Villanova University, Radnor, PA, October 15
2016
“St. John Damascene’s De Fide Orthodoxa in St. Bonaventure’s Breviloquium: A Case Study in Medieval Reception of Byzantine Thought,” Florovsky Symposium 2016, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, May 7
2016
“Tongues Can Save or Damn: St. Gregory the Great’s Fortieth Gospel Homily and the Priority of Moral Exegesis,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 12th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 5
Service as Respondent
2017
Porcu, Zachary. “The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life: Challenging Our Hermeneutical Presuppositions via Origen’s Biblical Exegesis,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 13th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 3
2016
Jenks, Sarah. “Typology in the Hymns of St. John of Damascus: A Case of Patristic Biblical Interpretation,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 12th Annual Archbishop Iakovos Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 5
Invited and Media Talks
2024
“St. Patrick’s Confessions & Classical Latin’s Evolutions into Medieval Latin,” Philosophical Latin (PHIL 5359), University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, October 3
2023
“Software Freedom, BSD Unix, and the Liberal Arts: An Unconventional Conversation with Dr. Corey Stephan,” Celts Computing Club, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, October 24
2023
“How to Give New Life to Your Quirklogic Paypr!,” Kitt Betts-Masters, YouTube, March 16
2022
“Theology Professor and Free Software Advocate, Corey Stephan Ph.D.,” DistroTube, Odysee and YouTube, October 20
2021
“The Writing Scholar’s Guide to FreeBSD,” FreeBSD Friday, FreeBSD Foundation, YouTube, October 22
2021
“The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD,” Chicago BSD Users Group, October 12
2017
“Roman Catholic Liturgy After Trent,” Reformations Class (RS 423), Edgewood College, Madison, WI, November 28. Instructor of Record: Jill Kirby, Ph.D.
Teaching Experience
University of St. Thomas, Instructor of Record
The Return to God (Fall 2022, Fall 2024)
Introduction to Classical Greek II (Spring 2023)
Faith, Reason, & Revelation (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2024)
Marquette University, Breakout Leader
Methods of Inquiry: Tolkien (Spring 2022)
Methods of Inquiry: Creativity (Fall 2021)
Academic Service
Member, Digital Humanities Committee, North American Patristics Society, 2024–26
Peer Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities 2024 Conference, 2024
Peer Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities 2023 Conference, 2023
Title V Grant Ambassador, University of St. Thomas (Houston), 2023
Other Professional Experience
Letter and Spirit Institute, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, OH, 2019
Letter and Spirit Institute, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, OH, 2018
Language Skills
Greek
Advanced reading
Latin
Advanced reading; some writing and speaking
Spanish
Advanced reading, writing, and speaking
German
Advanced reading (Harvard Divinity School’s German Reading Exam, High Pass, 2017)
French
Intermediate reading
Italian
Intermediate reading
Professional Memberships
North American Patristics Society (NAPS), 2017–present
Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), 2017–present
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2021–present