Until his recent retirement, Ralph C. Wood had served as University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor since 1998. He holds the B.A. and M.A. from Texas A&M University-Commerce as well as the A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has also taught at Wake Forest University, Samford University, Providence College, and Regent College in Vancouver. His major books are devoted to Flannery O’Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, and G.K Chesterton. For his 50 years in the classroom, he received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
