Dr. Todd Edmondson serves as Associate Professor of Humanities and Composition at Milligan University, where he also chairs the Area of Humane Learning. His academic research centers around the interdisciplinary conversation between Theology and Literature, with a focus on the way 20th century Literature engages topics like Pilgrimage and Sacrament.

A significant aspect of Dr. Edmondson’s work is the balance he maintains between his academic role at Milligan and his pastoral calling. As a pastor at First Christian Church Erwin, he finds that his ministry is deeply shaped by his teaching, and he prays that his work at Milligan is similarly influenced by his pastoral experience. Dr. Edmondson has published several journal articles, book reviews, and authored the book Priest, Prophet, Pilgrim: Types and Distortions of Spiritual Vocation in the Fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy.

Dr. Edmondson’s journey as a student at Milligan was incredibly formative, and he continues to seek God’s kingdom in both his academic and ministry work. He is deeply grateful for the mentors who have shaped his path over the years.

What he most enjoys about working at Milligan is getting to share with students and colleagues in the work of wrestling with the most important questions we face, about what it means to be human, what it means to have a relationship with God, and how we might do good work in this world.

Education:
BA, English and Humanities, Milligan College, 2000
MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2004
PhD, Humanities, University of Louisville, 2011