Month: January 2025

The Author Who Invented Her

I’ve written previously about C. S. Lewis’s appreciation of Dorothy L. Sayers’s works. He was particularly enthused by her new translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. When he first learned she was undertaking that task, he remarked in a letter to her, “I expect I shall find you loud pedaling the comic element more than I approve, but it is much better to have your Dante as your Dante than to have a compromise between it and some one else’s. That’s… Read more »

My Lewisian 2025

I continue to teach as an adjunct professor at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. This recent adjunct status after fourteen years as a full-time professor at SEU, while distressing at first (a slew of us lost our full-time positions in the wake of COVID), has offered me the grand opportunity of teaching upper-level history courses of my choice. One of those, which I have taught now ever since my academic sabbatical in 2014-2015, is my course on C. S. Lewis…. Read more »