Родился в Шеффилде (Англия) 30 мая 1959 г. В 1988 г. стал постоянным гражданином Канады.
В 1980 г. получил бакалаврскую степень, в 1984 г. - магистерскую степень в Кэмбриджском университете.
В 1988 г. защитил докторскую диссертацию (D.Ph.) в Оксфордском университете. Тема диссертации: “Ideas of Christian Writing in Late Roman Gaul”.
В 1990 г. начал преподавательскую деятельность в Университете Британской Колумбии (Ванкувер, Канада), профессором которого является сегодня.
Входит в редколлегии академических журналов "Neulateinisches Jahrbuch", "Studies in the Reformation", "Postscripts: A Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds".
Научные интересы: богословие блаж. Августина, Эразм Роттердамский и литературный Ренессанс, христианские и классические традиции европейской литературы, палеография.
Книги
Christian Latin Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts. Collected Studies Series. Aldershot and Burlington, NY: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2005.
(co-editor, with Karla Pollmann) Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to “Confessions”. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
(co-editor, with James W. Halporn) Cassiodorus: “Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning” and “On the Soul”. Translated Texts for Historians. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004.
(co-editor, with Hilmar M. Pabel) Holy Scripture Speaks: The Production and Reception of Erasmus’ “Paraphrases on the New Testament”. Erasmus Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
(co-editor, with William E. Klingshirn) The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
(co-editor, with Karla Pollmann and Allan D. Fitzgerald) History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: New Essays on Augustine’s “City of God”. Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999. [also published in Augustinian Studies 30.2 (1999)]
Избранные статьи
“Theory, or the Dream of the Book (Mallarmé to Blanchot).” The Early Christian Book. Proceedings of a conference held at the Catholic University of America in 2002. Ed. William E. Klingshirn and Linda Safran. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming in 2006.
“Vera et aeterna monumenta: Jerome’s Catalogue of Early Christian Writers and the Premises of Erasmian Humanism.” Proceedings of a conference on “Die Patristik in der Frühen Neuzeit” held in Bretten (Germany) in 2003. Ed. Gunther Frank and Markus Wriedt. Forthcoming in 2005.
“Reading like Angels: Derrida and Augustine on the Book (for a History of Literature).” Augustine and Postmodernism: Confession and Circumfession. Ed. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2005. 173-211.
“Women of Letters?” [response to an essay by Catherine Conybeare on Augustine’s correspondence with women]. Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages. Ed. Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 73-96.
“History, Fiction, and Figuralism in Book 8 of Augustine’s Confessions.” The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Christianity: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography. Ed. Dale B. Martin and Patricia Cox Miller. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 237-57.
“Latin Literary History after Saint Jerome: The Scriptorum illustrium latinae linguae libri of Sicco Polenton.” Neulateinisches Jahrbuch6 (2004): 303-11.
“Erasmus’ Lucubrations and the Renaissance Life of Texts.” 24th annual Erasmus Birthday Lecture. Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook24 (2004): 23-51.
“Jerome and Rufinus.” The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Ed. Frances M. Young, Lewis Ayres and Andrew Louth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 318-27.
“Sacred Letters of the Law: The Emperor’s Hand in Late Roman (Literary) History.” Antiquité Tardive 11 (2003): 345-58. [review article]
“From Cursusto Ductus: Figures of Writing in Western Late Antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Cassiodorus, Bede).” European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ed. Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2002. 47-103.