Education
PhD (2021), English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo.
MA (2007), English, University of Ottawa.
B.Ed. (2009), Intermediate/Senior – English/History, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
BA (Hons) (2006), English/Philosophy, www.亚洲色.
Courses
- Ways of Reading: Fiction (ENG-103)
- Ways of Reading: Poetry and Drama (ENG-104)
- Expository Writing I (ENG-201)
- American Literature Survey (ENG-232)
- Contemporary American Literature (ENG-332)
- Western Culture & Tradition I (HUM-110)
- Understanding Our World Through the Arts (HUM-210)
- Western Culture & Tradition II (HUM-120)
- Introduction to Christian Worldview (CTS-110)
www.亚洲色
Doug Sikkema is an Associate Professor of English and the Core Program, teaching courses primarily in humanities, introduction to worldview, the arts, and the occasional English course. His research area is contemporary American literature with a particular focus on the ways in which the material world is imagined by Christian writers in a postsecular culture. The main writers Doug has focused on are the poet Christian Wiman, and the novelists, Marilynne Robinson and Wendell Berry. Doug is currently working on turning his research thesis into a book length study on the postsecular Christian imagination. In addition to his research, Doug is an Associate Editor with Comment Magazine where you will regularly find some of his writing. Doug is currently the Board Chair of Oak Hill Academy, a classical Christian school located in Ancaster that he helped cofound in 2017. He is also a Senior Fellow in Research at Cardus. Together with their four children and two retrievers, Doug and his wife Vanessa live on a small acreage outside of Hamilton where they aspire to be small-scale farmers.
Research Interests
- Classical Education
- History of “Great Books” education
- American literature
- Ecocriticism
- Secularism/Postsecularism
- Aesthetics
- Technology
- Calvinist Influences on Humanistics Education
Research Funding
- Invited Travel Fund, www.亚洲色, 2022
- SSHRC Doctoral Award, 2016-2018
- Reid Trust recipient, 2017
- Reid Trust recipient, 2016
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2015-2016
- Reid Trust recipient, 2014
Selected Publications
Dissertation
“The Myth of Disenchantment: Religion, Literature, and the Environment in Contemporary American Literature.” University of Waterloo.
Books
For the World鈥檚 Sake: Charlotte Mason鈥檚 Enduring Wisdom for the Anthropocene. Charlotte Mason Institute, Pidgen Press, 2023.
Book Chapters and Articles
鈥淭he Path Not Taken: Reconsidering the Way of Winthrop.鈥 In Genealogies of Modernity, November 2023.
鈥淭o Dwell Ecologically: The Practice of Re-Enchantment.鈥 In Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century. ed. Katherine Quinsey. New York: Routledge, 2023.
鈥淭he Atmosphere.鈥 In Breaking Ground. Plough Publishing, 2021.
听Telling the Stories Right.听Eds. Jeffrey Bilbro and Jack Baker. 鈥淏etween the City and the Classroom: The Influence of Wallace Stegner on Wendell Berry.鈥 Front Porch Republic, Wipf and Stock. 2018.
鈥淐hristianity, Enchantment, and Modern Ecology.鈥 In Eco-Theology and Nonhuman Ethics. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
Popular Articles
鈥淪ex in the Cities: Abundance, Control and the Theater of God鈥檚 Glory,鈥 Comment, Summer 2023.
“Education for an Eternal Kingdom.”听Ekstasis. Summer 2021
“The Enduring Crisis.”听Front Porch Republic.听Summer 2021.
鈥淭he Atmosphere鈥澨Breaking Ground. June 2020.
鈥淭his Body, Broken.鈥 From听The Stories We Tell.听Comment听May, 2020.
鈥淗appiness is Not a Horizon鈥澨Simplify Magazine. November, 2019.
鈥淲hat is Marilynne Robinson Hawking?鈥澨Comment.听February 2018.
鈥淒esigned Isolation.鈥澨Comment.听December 2016.
鈥淚s Ecology Haunted? An Ecocritic Reads Laudato Si鈥.听Comment. July 2015. (Reprinted in Crux, 2016).
鈥淪tealing Past the Dragons: Marilynne Robinson鈥檚 Fiction鈥澨Convivium. 3(17): Winter 2014.
鈥淟onging for our Lost Home.鈥澨Convivium.听3(14): Summer 2014.
Reviews
鈥淗ow the Bible Means鈥澨Comment. Summer 2021.听 A review of Matthew Mullins.听Enjoying the Bible: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures. Baker Academic, 2021.
鈥淭he Permanent Crisis鈥.听Front Porch Republic.听Summer 2021. A Review of Chad Wellmon and Paul Reitter.听Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
鈥淒isenchantment, Actually?鈥澨The New Atlantis.听 A review of Jacob Josephson-Storm鈥檚听The Myth of Disenchantment. Chicago UP, 2017.
鈥淏efriending Geoffrey Chaucer鈥澨First Things.听A review of Norm Klassen鈥檚 Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves鈥 Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock) 2017.
鈥淭he New Scientism: Still Fighting the Phantom War.鈥澨Books & Culture.听A Review of Eric Dietrich鈥檚听Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World. Columbia UP, 2015. In听Books and Culture,听2016.
鈥淟oving God鈥檚 Wildness.鈥澨ISLE.听A Review of Jeffrey Bilbro鈥檚听Loving God鈥檚 Wildness: The Christian Roots of our Ecological Crisis.听Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama, 2015).听ISLE. 22.4. Fall 2015.
鈥淭alking about God in Public鈥澨Comment.听Review of Williams, Rowan.听The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language.听Bloomsbury. Comment. December 2014.
鈥淕etting Back to Place.鈥 Comment.听Review of听Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America. Eds. Wilfred M. McClay and Ted V. McAllister.听Comment.听April 2014.
Interviews
“Reformed Education on Purpose: What is Classical Education?” League of Canadian Reformed Schools. Podcast. Summer 2021.
A University for the World. A Conversation with Dr. Randy Boyagoda.听Comment.听Spring 2018.
鈥淭he Moral Enterprise of Creation: An Interview with Scott Masson.鈥 Podcast.听Cardus Audio. December 2014.
Word FM:听The John and Cathy Show. 鈥淲ill Beauty Save the World?鈥 Pittsburgh, PA. April 10, 2014.
鈥淧articipating in Creation: An Interview with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Dr. Ellen Davis.鈥 Podcast.听听Cardus Audio. February 2014.
Other Appointments
Visiting Scholar with the University of Cumbria (2026-2031)