Sessional Instructor
BA (Maritime Christian College, PE); MCS (Regent College, BC); PhD (University of Chester, UK)
As the author of more than 1,100 articles, blog posts, and reviews, Brenton has worked as a freelance author, columnist, and policy writer for Canadian magazines and the government of Prince Edward Island. As a theologian of literature, Brenton writes the popular website, A Pilgrim in Narnia, which explores the intersections of faith, fantasy, and fiction. With more than 1.1 million website hits and a yearly readership now exceeding 200,000, more than 8,000 social media followers, and significant networks within the scholarly and readerly worlds of C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, Brenton has a powerful platform for considering the literary, spiritual, and theological interest of some of our most famous world-builders, including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, L.M. Montgomery, and others. In becoming the Founding Producer and Host of the SSHRC-funded "MaudCast: The Podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute" in 2020, Brenton has increased his networks of popular and scholarly readers who like to talk about the books they love. Brenton is a popular guest speaker for theological and literary societies and a sought-after essayist.
Dr. Dickieson's peer-reviewed publications on literature and religion appear in leading journals such as Mythlore, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal, Journal of the Southwest, and Notes and Queries, with reviews and review essays also in VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center, The Journal of Inklings Studies, Studies in Religion, and Literature and Theology.