Jahdiel Perez is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. He recently completed his D.Phil in Theology and Literature at the University of Oxford. Perez’s dissertation, supervised by Dr. Alister McGrath and Dr. Michael Ward, analyzed how C.S. Lewis reconciled joy and sorrow throughout his theological writings. While at Oxford, he was President of the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society and a Doctoral Fellow with the OCCA Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics.
In his research and teaching, Perez integrates theology, philosophy, and literature to show how Christian insights can respond to some of the most pressing questions of our time. Before attending Oxford, Perez earned his BA in Philosophy from University of Massachusetts in Boston and his M.Div in Christian Theology from Harvard University. His research interests range from analytic and continental philosophy of religion to modern theology and English literature. Perez lives near Philadelphia, PA with his wife Wendy and 2-year-old son Jezekiel.