Louis Markos is Professor in English at

Houston Baptist University Houston Christian University (HCU), formerly Houston Baptist University, is a private Baptist university in Houston, Texas. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (Southern Baptist Convention). Its Cultural Arts Center hou ...

, where he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities.

Education

Markos earned his B.A. in English and History from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. While at the University of Michigan, he specialized in British Romantic Poetry (his dissertation was on Wordsworth), Literary Theory, and the Classics.

Career

At Houston Baptist University (where he has taught since 1991), Markos offers courses in poetry, including Victorian Poetry and Prose, 17th-century Poetry and Prose, Mythology, Epic and Film. He also teaches classes on Ancient Greece and Rome for HBU’s Honors College along with courses on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and the Classics. He is a member of

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and won Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Michigan and was named the Opal Goolsby Teacher of the Year at the Houston Baptist University. In 1994, he was selected to attend an NEH Summer Institute on Virgil’s Aeneid. In addition to presenting several papers at scholarly conferences, Dr. Markos has become a popular speaker in Houston, Texas, where he has presented five lectures at the Museum of Printing History Lyceum (three on film, two on ancient Greece), a three-lecture series on film at the Houston Public Library, a class on film for Leisure Learning Unlimited, a class on the Odyssey for a retirement center and a lecture on Homer and the Oral Tradition for a seniors group. He has produced two lecture series with the Teaching Company ("The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis"; "Plato to Postmodernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author") and has also published articles and reviews in journals including ''Christianity Today'', ''Touchstone'', ''Theology Today'', ''Christian Research Journal'', ''Mythlore'', ''Christian Scholar’s Review'', ''Saint Austin Review'', ''American Arts Quarterly'', and ''The City''.

Personal life

Markos lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Donna, his son and daughter.

Scholarly works

*''From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics'' *''Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age'' *''The Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet'' *''Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis can Train us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World'' *''Apologetics for the 21st Century'' *''Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis: A Student’s Guide'' *''On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue in Tolkien and Lewis''

Plays

Markos has had his modern adaptation of Euripides’ ''

Iphigenia in Tauris ''Iphigenia in Tauris'' ( grc, Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις, ''Iphigeneia en Taurois'') is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, '' Helen'', as ...

'' performed off-Broadway in the Fall of 2011 and adaptations of Euripides’ ''Helen'' and Sophocles’ ''Oedipus'' were performed in 2012. He is also the co-author of a script on

C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge Univers ...

and

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlins ...

, "The Lion Awakes".

References

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