.---------------------. | Curriculum Vitae 📜 | ---------------------' To request a .pdf version of this document that includes contact information and references, please write to me at c o r e y (dot) s t e p h a n (at) s t t h o m (dot) e d u ------------------------ April 1, 2026 --------------------------- -- 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 -- 2025-present Lecturer, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX 2022–2025 Assistant Professor and Fellow of the Core, Department of the Core, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX -- Publications -- --- Book --- 2026 Maximus the Confessor’s Thomistic Legacy. Mediaeval Law and Theology 10 / Studies and Texts 244 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies: Toronto). --- Articles and Book Chapters --- Accepted “Harmonizing Patrology in the Earliest Greek Scholasticism: Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene on Dionysius’s Theory of Christ’s ‘Theandric Operation.’” Studia Patristica. 2026 “Thomistic Maximianism: a Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion,” in Maximus the Confessor and the Latin West, edited by Kevin Clarke and Thomas Cattoi, Brill’s Studies in Catholic Theology 15 (Brill: Leiden). 2025 “Teaching History and Languages with a Strategy Computer Game: 0 A.D. in the Classroom.” Programming Historian, 14 (CC-BY) (June). 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 --- 2026 Strickler, Ryan W. Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses: Coping with Crises in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries. Journal of Early Christian Studies, [Forthcoming]. 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 -- 2025 Research/Writing Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston) 2025 Conference Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston) 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 --- 2026 New Frontiers in Maximus the Confessor: Dubious, Spurious, or Lesser-Known Writings, Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May Co-chair: Kevin Clarke, Ph.D. Paper: “(Deutero-)Maximus’s Disputatio cum Pyrrho as John Damascene’s Christological Guide” 2026 GNU/Linux-Based Tutorials in Digital Medievalist Text and Document Processing, 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamzoo, MI (Virtual), May Co-chair: Andrew Hayes, Ph.D. 2025 New Frontiers in Maximus the Confessor: Dubious, Spurious, or Lesser-Known Writings, Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 23 Co-chair: Kevin Clarke, Ph.D. Paper: “The Disputatio cum Pyrrho as Maximus’s Christology ipsissima voce“ 2025 Digital Humanities Committee’s Practicalities Session: Tutorials in Workflows, Front-end Software, and Efficient Digital Scholarship, Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 22 Paper: “Constructing a Free and Open Source Scholarly Digital Workflow in GNU/Linux or BSD” 2022 Maximus the Confessor in the Medieval Latin West, Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 28 Paper: “Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion” --- Papers Presented --- 2026 “Maximus the Confessor’s Thomistic Legacy,” From Dionysius and Maximus to Aquinas and Palamas, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, IL, September [3-5] 2026 LaTeX for Elegant Humanities Handouts in Conferences and Classrooms,” The 47th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group, Alt Hotel, Calgary, AB, July [17-19] 2026 “Escaping Plato’s Cave with Software Freedom: A Classical Greek Symposium with Fred, Puffy, and Beastie,” BSDCan 2026, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, June [19-20] 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 9 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, 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, 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,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies / Association canadienne des études patristiques, 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,” 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,” 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 2016 “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 -- 2025-2026 Whimsically Encountering the Fathers of Mother Church: Ancient Voices, Modern Hearts Lecture Series, St. Cecilia Catholic Church, Houston, TX “Praying with the Church Fathers,” March 26 “St. Ephrem’s Potent Poetry,” February 26 “St. Athanasius Against the World,” January 22 “St. Augustine’s Catholic Legacy,” November 20 “An Adventure into the Early Church,” October 23 2025 “The Life and Teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo as the Guide for an Augustinian Pope,” St. Cecilia Catholic Church, Houston, TX, June 18 2025 “Free Software in Education, Religion and Life (with Dr. Corey Stephan),” DistroTube, Odysee and YouTube, June 13 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 -- Campus Talks and Guest Lectures -- 2025 “Reflections on John’s Book of Glory & Leadership of Stoic Service,” Student Leadership Council’s Leadership Summit, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, April 5 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 2024 “St. Patrick’s Confessions & Classical Latin’s Evolutions into Medieval Latin,” Philosophical Latin (PHIL 5359), University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, October 3 2017 “Roman Catholic Liturgy After Trent,” Reformations Class (RS 423), Edgewood College, Madison, WI, November 28 -- Teaching Experience -- --- St. Leo University, Instructor of Record --- (Th.D.) Catholic Intellectual Tradition III (Aesthetics) (Summer 2026) --- University of Houston, Instructor of Record --- Jewish and Christian Texts and Traditions (Spring 2026) Introduction to Religious Studies (Fall 2025) --- University of St. Thomas, Instructor of Record --- The Return to God (Fall 2022, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Summer 2025, Summer 2026) Introduction to Classical Greek II (Spring 2023) Faith, Reason, & Revelation (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026) --- 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 Conference, 2025 Peer Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference, 2024 Peer Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities 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 __________________________________________________________________ © 2026 Corey Stephan, Ph.D.