“Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell,— John Donne, Holy Sonnet 9
The picture of Christ crucified”
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Patrick Timmis
Education
Ph.D., English | Early Modern Literature | Duke University, 2021
Certificate in Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Studies
M.A., English | Medieval Literature | University of Virginia, 2014
B.A., English (Hons., summa cum laude) | Hillsdale College, 2013
Books
Merlin’s Well: The Reformed Imagination of C.S. Lewis (monograph under contract with Canon Press, 2027)
Reformation & Society: Sources, Polities, and Legacies of the Reformations, co-edited with Nathan Nocchi, (Westminster Seminary Press, 2025)
A House for the Word: A Treatise on Public Worship from Hooker’s Laws, co-edited with Brad Littlejohn, (Davenant Press, Library of Early English Protestantism, 2025)
The Word Made Flesh for Us: A Treatise on Christology and the Sacraments from Hooker’s Laws, co-edited with Brad Littlejohn (Davenant Press, Library of Early English Protestantism, 2024)
Journal Articles
“‘The Human Race Is to Become all Technocracy’: C.S. Lewis’s Satanic Science,” with Ethan Stoneman, Pro Ecclesia, 34.3-4, (2025), 121-145
“Ransom in the Garden of Adonis,” The Journal of Inklings Studies 15.1 (2025), 100-124
“Archbishop Caiaphas: the medieval stage-tyrant in the Elizabethan ‘Martin Marprelate’ controversy,” The Ben Jonson Journal 31.2 (2024), 156-179
“John Donne as poetic model in Moby Dick,” Notes and Queries 70.4 (2023), 296-298
“John Donne in the Hague & the Hague at the Globe: Performing Reformation England’s Religio-Political Doctrine of Perseverance,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53.2 (2023), 405-432
“The ‘Puritan’ Preacher and The Puritan Widow,” Studies in Philology 120.1 (2023), 104-140
“Undermining the elect nation: King Lear and the Hebrew patriarchs at the court of James I,” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 43.3 (2020), 105-133
“Sanctifying Rites in Milton’s A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634,” Christianity & Literature, 68.2 (2019), 193-212
“No/Any faithful man doubts”: Intentional Puritan mistranslations of Ratramnus of Corbie?” Notes and Queries, 66.2 (2019), 225-227
“Saturn and Soliloquy: Henryson’s Conversation with Chaucerian Free Will,” The Chaucer Review, 51.4 (2016), 453-468
Book Chapters
“John Milton’s Visible Church” in Reformation & Society: Sources, Polities, and Legacies of the English Reformation, Nathan Nocchi & Patrick Timmis eds., (Westminster Seminary Press, 2025)
“John Bunyan” in The Imagination’s Journey to God: A Handbook of Literary Apologetics, Thomas Martin ed., (De Gruyter, 2025)
Biography
I write primarily on the literature of the long English Reformation, but I am also a generalist and teach a range of courses that includes great texts surveys of epic poetry from Genesis to Moby Dick, seminars on the scholarly imagination of C.S. Lewis, and an introduction to St. Augustine’s pedagogical thought. I am a licensed Reader and Catechist in the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word.