Meet Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Professor at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He has been teaching English there since 1984. Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, in the shadows of the Civil Rights movement, Jacobs graduated with a BA from the University of Alabama in 1980 and a PhD from the University of Virginia in 1987. His research mainly focuses on the intersection of literature and Christian theology. He is the author of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling, A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love, A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age, What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry and Must Christianity Be Violent?: Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology. Two of his books—Original Sin: a Cultural History and Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life—will be published in April and May 2008 respectively. Jacobs is married to Teri and they have a son named Wesley. They reside in Wheaton.
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