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Holly Ordway
Holly Ordway is an American author, Tolkien scholar, and academic. She serves as the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute and is a Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. She previously served as the founding Chair of the Department of Apologetics and Director of the Master of Arts in Apologetics program at HCU, where she architected the program's foundational curriculum. She won a 2022 Mythopoeic Award for her book Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages.
Holly Ordway gained her bachelor's degree in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1995. She took an MA in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1997, and completed her PhD in English back at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. In 2005 she joined the faculty at MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California, teaching English literature. She took a further MA in Christian Apologetics at Biola University in 2011.
In 2012, Ordway was recruited by Houston Christian University Provost John Mark Reynolds to help found the university's new graduate program in apologetics, alongside Mary Jo Sharp and Nancy Pearcey. Rather than teaching in the English department, Ordway served as a leader in the Department of Apologetics, where she architected the practical structure of the Master of Arts in Apologetics (MAA) curriculum. She pioneered a unique hybrid online model for the university, using digital tools to facilitate intimate, global seminars, and was personally responsible for recruiting Oxford Tolkien and Lewis scholar Michael Ward to the HCU faculty.
Since 2010, when she became a Christian while already a lecturer, Ordway has published several books on Christian apologetics, and two on the Roman Catholic novelist J. R. R. Tolkien.
Ordway fenced competitively for twenty years; she gave up after becoming a Christian.[page needed]
In 2021, Michael Ward and others published An Unexpected Journal: The Imaginative Harvest of Holly Ordway: Celebrating the Difference a Teacher Can Make about Ordway.
In 2022, Ordway won a Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies for her book Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages.
Janet Brennan Croft notes that Ordway's apologetics may interest Mythlore readers, as Ordway credits the Inkling authors Tolkien and C. S. Lewis for her conversion from being an atheist to a Roman Catholic.
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Holly Ordway
Holly Ordway is an American author, Tolkien scholar, and academic. She serves as the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute and is a Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. She previously served as the founding Chair of the Department of Apologetics and Director of the Master of Arts in Apologetics program at HCU, where she architected the program's foundational curriculum. She won a 2022 Mythopoeic Award for her book Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages.
Holly Ordway gained her bachelor's degree in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1995. She took an MA in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1997, and completed her PhD in English back at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. In 2005 she joined the faculty at MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California, teaching English literature. She took a further MA in Christian Apologetics at Biola University in 2011.
In 2012, Ordway was recruited by Houston Christian University Provost John Mark Reynolds to help found the university's new graduate program in apologetics, alongside Mary Jo Sharp and Nancy Pearcey. Rather than teaching in the English department, Ordway served as a leader in the Department of Apologetics, where she architected the practical structure of the Master of Arts in Apologetics (MAA) curriculum. She pioneered a unique hybrid online model for the university, using digital tools to facilitate intimate, global seminars, and was personally responsible for recruiting Oxford Tolkien and Lewis scholar Michael Ward to the HCU faculty.
Since 2010, when she became a Christian while already a lecturer, Ordway has published several books on Christian apologetics, and two on the Roman Catholic novelist J. R. R. Tolkien.
Ordway fenced competitively for twenty years; she gave up after becoming a Christian.[page needed]
In 2021, Michael Ward and others published An Unexpected Journal: The Imaginative Harvest of Holly Ordway: Celebrating the Difference a Teacher Can Make about Ordway.
In 2022, Ordway won a Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies for her book Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages.
Janet Brennan Croft notes that Ordway's apologetics may interest Mythlore readers, as Ordway credits the Inkling authors Tolkien and C. S. Lewis for her conversion from being an atheist to a Roman Catholic.