Corey Stephan, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

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October 3, 2024

Education

Ph.D.

Religious Studies, Department of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2022

M.T.S.

Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2017

B.A.

Summa cum laude, Classical Languages and Theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, 2015

Professional Experience

2022–present

Assistant Professor and Fellow of the Core, Department of the Core, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX

Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

Forthcoming

“Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion,” in Maximus in the Latin West, edited by Kevin Clarke and Thomas Cattoi (Brill: Leiden).

Book Reviews

2018

2018

Stock, Brian. The Integrated Self: Augustine, The Bible, and Ancient Thought. Theological Studies, vol. 79, 2: pp. 435-437. May 29.

Other Publications

2021

FreeBSD for the Writing Scholar,” FreeBSD Journal, January/February.

2018

Meditations on the Lord’s Prayer for Good Friday,” Vulgate Media (vulgatemedia.com), March 28.

2018

Hans Urs von Balthasar and Praying with the Church Fathers,” Vulgate Media (vulgatemedia.com), March 1.

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

2024

Conference Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston)

2023

Conference Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, University of St. Thomas (Houston)

2021

Hank Fellowship in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Loyola University Chicago

2021

North American Patristics Society’s Dissertation Progress Grant

2021

ULINE Cybersecurity Training Opportunity Grant, Center for Cyber Security & Awareness, Marquette University

2019

Graduate School Research Travel Award, Marquette University

2018

Outstanding Student Paper Prize, 2018 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society
“Integrated Selves in the Image of the Trinity: The Mundicordes in Book 8 of St. Augustine’s De Trinitate

2018

Graduate School Research Travel Award, Marquette University

2017–2022

Teaching Assistantship, Marquette University

2016

Individual Conference Grant, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Student Forum

2016

Individual Conference Grant, Boston College Graduate Student Association

2015–2017

Dean’s Fellowship, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

Conference Activity

Sessions Organized and Chaired

2025

Digital Humanities Committee’s Practicalities Session: Tutorials in Workflows, Front-end Software, and Efficient Digital Scholarship, 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May

2025

New Frontiers in Maximus the Confessor: Dubious, Spurious, or Lesser-Known Writings, 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May
Co-chair: Kevin Clarke, Ph.D.

2022

Maximus the Confessor in the Medieval Latin West, 2022 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 28
Paper Presented: “Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion”

Papers Presented

2024

“Teach History and Languages with a Computer Game: 0 A.D. in the Classroom,” Association for Computers and the Humanities 2024 (ACH2024), Virtual, November 6-8

2024

“Harmonizing Patrology in the Earliest Greek Scholasticism: Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene on Dionysius’s Theory of Christ’s ‘Theandric Operation,’” International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, August 8

2024

Summa Tetraodontidae: Thomas Aquinas Explores OpenBSD’s Medieval Orderliness,” BSDCan 2024, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, June 1

2023

“How to Incorporate Real-world Data into the Scholarship-Aware and Libre Computer Game 0 A.D. for Ancient History and Language Instruction,” Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies Unit, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, November 19

2023

“Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene on Dionysius’s Theory of Christ’s ‘Theandric Operation’: A Case Study in Patristic Devotion and Polemics in the Earliest Greek Scholasticism,” Development of Early Christian Theology Unit, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, November 18

2023

“John Damascene as Maximus the Confessor’s Student in De fide orthodoxa 58 and 59,” 2023 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies / Association canadienne des études patristiques, 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto, ON, May 28

2023

“BSD for Researching, Writing, and Teaching in the Liberal Arts,” BSDCan 2023, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, May 20

2022

“A Move Toward the Pervasive Maximianism of the Tertia Pars: Nicetas of Heraclea’s Quotations of Maximus the Confessor in Aquinas’s Catena in Lucam,” Thomas Aquinas II: The Catena aurea, 57th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (Virtual), May 12

2022

“Thomistic Maximianism: A Theology for Catholic and Orthodox Re-communion,” St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 10

2021

Et superiorum et posteriorum’: Difficulties Dating St. Augustine’s De consensu evangelistarum,” The 2021 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL (Virtual), May 26

2021

“‘The Power to Save Perfectly’: John Damascene’s De fide orthodoxa 58 & 59 as Mediators of Maximian Soteriology,” Hope and Death, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL (Virtual), February 11

2021

FOSS for the Professional Historian: Optimizing a Multisource Historical Research Workflow in BSD or GNU/Linux with a Tiling Window Manager and Manuscripts Galore,” Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2021, Brussels, Belgium (Virtual), February 6

2020

Medium tenens: Summa Theologica III, Q. 2, A. 6 & the Transcendence of Orthodoxy,” Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 8

2019

Puer Jesus proficiebat’: Aquinas’s Disagreement with the Damascene on the Hypostatic Union and Soteriology in Luke 2:52,” Aquinas the Biblical Theologian, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 9

2018

“Integrated Selves in the Image of the Trinity:
 The Mundicordes in Book 8 of St. Augustine’s De Trinitate,” The 2018 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Pre-Dissertation Research Workshop, Chicago, IL, May 24–26
Outstanding Student Paper Prize Recipient

2018

“St. John Damascene’s De Fide Orthodoxa in St. Thomas Aquinas’s De Unione Verbi Incarnati,” Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, January 25

2017

“‘Not One Iōta of the Law Will Pass’ or be Changed: St. John Damascene’s De Hymno Trisagio (Chapters 1–7) and Liturgical Orthodoxy,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 13th Annual Archbishop Iakovos 
Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 4

2017

“The Holy Mass as Wholly Beautiful: Transformational Aesthetics in the Liturgical Theology of Dom Prosper Guéranger,” Lumen et Vita Fall Symposium 2016, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, MA, November 10

2016

“Different Biblical Versions Show Distinct Christological Truths: St. Jerome’s Commentary on Isaiah and the Servant Songs,” Patristic, Medieval, & Renaissance Conference 2016, Villanova University, Radnor, PA, October 15

2016

“St. John Damascene’s De Fide Orthodoxa in St. Bonaventure’s Breviloquium: A Case Study in Medieval Reception of Byzantine Thought,” Florovsky Symposium 2016, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, May 7

2016

“Tongues Can Save or Damn: St. Gregory the Great’s Fortieth Gospel Homily and the Priority of Moral Exegesis,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 12th Annual Archbishop Iakovos
 Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 5

Service as Respondent

2017

Porcu, Zachary. “The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life: Challenging Our Hermeneutical Presuppositions via Origen’s Biblical Exegesis,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 13th Annual Archbishop Iakovos 
Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 3

2016

Jenks, Sarah. “Typology in the Hymns of St. John of Damascus: A Case of Patristic Biblical Interpretation,” The Pappas Patristics Institute’s 12th Annual Archbishop Iakovos
 Patristics Graduate Student Conference, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, March 5

Invited and Media Talks

2024

“St. Patrick’s Confessions & Classical Latin’s Evolutions into Medieval Latin,” Philosophical Latin (PHIL 5359), University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, October 3

2023

“Software Freedom, BSD Unix, and the Liberal Arts: An Unconventional Conversation with Dr. Corey Stephan,” Celts Computing Club, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, October 24

2023

How to Give New Life to Your Quirklogic Paypr!,” Kitt Betts-Masters, YouTube, March 16

2022

Theology Professor and Free Software Advocate, Corey Stephan Ph.D.,” DistroTube, Odysee and YouTube, October 20

2021

The Writing Scholar’s Guide to FreeBSD,” FreeBSD Friday, FreeBSD Foundation, YouTube, October 22

2021

“The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD,” Chicago BSD Users Group, October 12

2017

“Roman Catholic Liturgy After Trent,” Reformations Class (RS 423), Edgewood College, Madison, WI, November 28. Instructor of Record: Jill Kirby, Ph.D.

Teaching Experience

University of St. Thomas, Instructor of Record

The Return to God (Fall 2022, Fall 2024)

Introduction to Classical Greek II (Spring 2023)

Faith, Reason, & Revelation (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2024)

Marquette University, Breakout Leader

Methods of Inquiry: Tolkien (Spring 2022)

Methods of Inquiry: Creativity (Fall 2021)

Academic Service

Member, Digital Humanities Committee, North American Patristics Society, 2024–26

Peer Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities 2024 Conference, 2024

Peer Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities 2023 Conference, 2023

Title V Grant Ambassador, University of St. Thomas (Houston), 2023

Other Professional Experience

Letter and Spirit Institute, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, OH, 2019

Letter and Spirit Institute, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, OH, 2018

Language Skills

Greek
Advanced reading

Latin
Advanced reading; some writing and speaking

Spanish
Advanced reading, writing, and speaking

German
Advanced reading (Harvard Divinity School’s German Reading Exam, High Pass, 2017)

French
Intermediate reading

Italian
Intermediate reading

Professional Memberships

North American Patristics Society (NAPS), 2017–present

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), 2017–present

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2021–present