Louis Markos

Houston, TX

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Louis Markos (PhD, University of Michigan), is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University, where he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. He teaches courses on British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Art and Film.

His 30 books include Passing the Torch: An Apology for Classical Christian Education, From Aristotle to Christ, From Plato to Christ, From Achilles to Christ, The Myth Made Fact, On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis, Apologetics for the 21st Century, and a trilogy of children’s novels in which his kids become part of Greek mythology, the epics of Homer, and ancient Greek history. He is committed to the concept of the Professor as Public Educator and believes that knowledge must not be walled up in the Academy but must be disseminated to all who have ears to hear.

He has published 300 articles and reviews in such journals as Touchstone, Theology Today, Christian Research Journal, Mythlore, Christian Scholar’s Review, Saint Austin Review, American Arts Quarterly, and The City, and had his modern adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, Euripides’ Helen, and Sophocles’ Electra performed off-Broadway.

He is a popular speaker in Houston, and has given over 300 public lectures on such topics as C. S. Lewis, apologetics, education, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and Dante in over two dozen states and in British Columbia, Canada, Oxford, England, and Rome.

He is committed to the concept of the Professor as Public Educator and believes that knowledge must not be walled up in the Academy but must be disseminated to all who have ears to hear.

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Dr. Markos speaks widely for all types of people and all sizes of audiences on ancient Greece and Rome, Lewis and Tolkien, and apologetics and classical education.