Matthew Wickman, Founding Director, Professor of English
Matthew Wickman, Founding Director, Professor of EnglishFaith and Imagination Podcast – Seasons 1-6
Host, BYU Humanities Center, 2021-present
Book Launch – Godstruck: Seven Women’s Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion
Invited Interviewer of author Kelsey Osgood, Kings English Bookstore, Salt Lake City, June 2025
“God’s Presence amid Thin Silence”
Devotional Presenter based on Life to the Whole Being, Bay Area Council for LDS Studies, March 2025
“Thin Silence: A Conversation with Matthew Wickman”
Guest with Steven Kapp Perry (transcription of conversation on In Good Faith in July 2022), Wayfare Magazine, February 2025
“Narrating the Sacred: An interview with Matt Wickman, a professor at BYU and a scholar of spirituality in literature“
Guest with Sydney Ballif, The Utah Monthly, December 2024
“Subtle Grace: In Praise of Simple Blessings“
Invited contributor, Wayfare 4 (2024): 142-46 (also a featured article to the magazine’s email subscribers in May 2025)
“Why a BYU Professor Wants You to Read More” – Excerpt from Life to the Whole Being: The Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor
Author, Deseret News, August 2022 (subsequently ran on the front page of the Arts and Culture section in August 2022)
Life to the Whole Being
Author, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2022
Therapeutic Criticism
Interview of Amanda Anderson, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, October 6, 2017
The Puzzle of the Empty Tomb, or, What It Means to Be a Scholar of Faith
Presentation, Humanities & Belief, BYU Education Week, August 2017
The Supernatural: Myth or New Media?
Article, Humanities magazine, Spring 2017
The Relevance and Challenges of Diversity
Moderator of and contributor, Humanities magazine, Spring 2017
Getting It: Art and Attunement
Interview of Rita Felski, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, March 29, 2017
Robert Burns
Lecture, Damascus Lodge of Freemasons, January 2017
After Suspicion
Article, Humanities magazine, Fall 2016
Literature and the Theory of Spiritual Experience
Presentation, Lifelong Reading, BYU Education Week, August 2016
The Work of Art
Article, Humanities magazine, Spring 2016
The Visual Commons: #BlackLivesMatter
Interview of Nicholas Mirzoeff, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, April 14, 2016
Artistic Forms & The Structures of Society: How They Relate
Interview of Caroline Levine, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, November 13, 2015
Tambora—The 1815 Volcanic Eruption That Changed the World
Interview of Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, October 28, 2015
The Era of Estrangement
Article, Humanities magazine, Spring 2015
How Powerful Computers Give Us New Insights on Literary History
Interview of Ted Underwood, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, May 7, 2015
Hard Choices Facing Humanities & Possible Solutions
Interview of Eric Hayot, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, March 4, 2015
Toast to the Lassies
Lecture, Robert Burns Supper, Utah Scottish Association, Brigham Young University, February 7, 2015
Devotional Poetry & the Work of Being Alive in the World
Interview of Kim Johnson & Oren Izenberg, Thinking Aloud, KBYU Radio, January 5, 2015