Education

Ph.D., English, Baylor University (2016)

M.A., English, Chapman University (2010)

B.A., English, Azusa Pacific University (2006)

Interviews/Talks

Chapel talk at Sterling College: “Hope in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.”

Guest on “The Habit” podcast: “Rachel Griffis and Rachel De Smith Roberts Read Deeply” 

Guest on “In Search of Wisdom” podcast: “The Art of Deep Reading with Rachel B. Griffis and Julie Ooms”

“Read Deeper, Read Together,” an interview with Common Good Magazine

Guest on “An Academic Odyssey” podcast: “Rachel Griffis: The Academic Conference, School Ethos, and the Benefits of Collaboration”

Online Essays

“Restoring the Long Run as a Practice of Virtue.” Front Porch Republic. 4 Sept. 2024.

“Returning to the Love of the Book.” Front Porch Republic. 23 June 2023.

“When the Church Library is Bad for You: The Rigidity of Evangelical Women’s Fiction.” Post45 Contemporaries. 12 Sept. 2022.

“Ishiguro’s New Novel Contemplates the Relationship between Humans, Machines, and the Natural World.” Front Porch Republic. 17 Jan. 2022.

“Why I’m Fasting from Analogies.” Front Porch Republic. 27 Sept. 2021.

“Plagiarism as the Language of Ownership: Aligning Academic Liturgy with Christian Virtue.” Christian Scholar’s Review 49.2 (2020): 109-126.

“Reformation Leads to Self-Reliance: The Protestantism of Transcendentalism” at Religions 8.30 (2017).

“Doing, not Reading: Cormac McCarthy on the Virtues and Dangers of Literature” at Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 8.2 (2016): 40-49.