Michael Ward
Michael Ward is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hillsdale College. Described by Professor N.T. Wright in The Times Literary Supplement as “the foremost living Lewis scholar,” Dr. Ward is the author of the best-selling and award-winning Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press), co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press), and presenter of the BBC television documentary, The Narnia Code. On the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis’s death, Dr. Ward unveiled a permanent national memorial to him in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London. He has a keen interest in cinema, co-authoring Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List (Word on Fire, 2023), playing the role of Vicar in the film The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis, and handing a pair of X-ray spectacles to Agent 007 in the James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. In real life Ward is a Catholic priest, assisting at Holy Rood Church, Oxford, alongside his work as an academic. Website: www.michaelward.net.