Jeffrey Wickes
Associate Professor
Primary Area: History of Christianity
Secondary Area: Liturgical Studies
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Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
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Biography
Jeffrey Wickes focuses on the interplay between Syriac literature, theology, and liturgy in the context of late antique Christianity. Building projects that work from close readings of Syriac texts, he gravitates in his work towards larger questions of genre (especially poetry), religion, and theology as they play out within the historical horizons of late antique Christianity, and as those horizons meet our own in the contemporary world. He comes to Notre Dame after nine years at Saint Louis University. His work has been supported by grants from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, the Mellon Foundation, and the Dolores Zorhab Liebmann Fund.
Research Interests
Late Antique Christianity, Syriac literature and theology, ritual studies, poetry and theology
Selected Publications
With Andrew Faulkner and Cillian O’Hogan, Genesis in Late Antique Poetry. Early Christain Studies series. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023.
Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia: Ephrem’s Hymns on Faith. Christianity in Late Antiquity Series 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019.
“Between Liturgy and School: Reassessing the Performative Context of Ephrem’s Madrashe.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 26:1 (Spring, 2018), 25-51.
St. Ephrem the Syrian: the Hymns on Faith. Fathers of the Church, Volume 130. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
Education
- BA, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
- MA, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
- MA, University of Notre Dame
- PhD, University of Notre Dame