Matthew Wickman

Matthew Wickman, professor in English at BYU, teaches and writes about literature and religion, with particular emphasis on the relationship between literature and religious experience. He serves as co-chair of the Christian Spirituality Unit of the American Academy of Religion as well as communications director for the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. He was the founding director of the BYU Humanities Center, and he now serves as coordinator of the BYU Faith and Imagination Institute, editor of the academic journal Literature and Belief, and host of the ecumenical Faith and Imagination podcast. He has published more than fifty articles and book chapters, but we are most enthused about his Life to the Whole Being: The Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor (Maxwell Institute, 2022). In 2025, Wickman was named University Professor of English at BYU.