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Dr. Wood received his B. A. and M.A. degrees in English from East Texas State University, as well as the M. A. and Ph. D. in Theology and Literature from the University of Chicago. His teaching and research commitments include Christian Literary Classics (especially the works of Dante, Herbert, Bunyan, Dostoevsky, and Hopkins), the Oxford Inklings (chiefly Tolkien and Lewis), as well as 20th century religion and culture (mainly Flannery O’Connor in relation to Roman Catholic theology). Before coming to Baylor, he taught for 26 years at Wake Forest University, where he won awards for distinguished teaching.