Additional Programs: Medieval Greek Linguistics and Paleography 06 07/2015 American School of Classical Studies; Athens, Greece

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1 LUIS JOSUÉ SALÉS 94 Channel Dr, Belchertown, MA /(+1) Citizenship Status: Mexico/United States of America Date of Birth: EDUCATION Ph.D. History of Christianity: Late Ancient/Early Medieval Christianity (expected) 12/2017 Fordham University; Bronx, NY Ph.D. Dissertation: The Substance of the Virtues: Deification according to Maximos the Confessor and the Transformation of Aristotelian Ethics Co-Directors: George Demacopoulos, John Behr Readers: Aristotle Papanikolaou, Robert Davis Comprehensive Exams: Major Areas: Patristics/Early Christianity, Medieval Christianity Minor Area: Ante-Nicene Christianity Dissertation Area: Maximos the Confessor and Virtue Th.M. Patristics, high distinction 05/2013 Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology; Brookline, MA Thesis: The Cosmic Mystery of the Virtues in St. Maximos the Confessor Director: Nicolas Constas (a.k.a Fr. Maximos of Simonopetra); Reader: Timothy Patitsas M.T.S. Virtue Ethics and Patristics 05/2012 Boston College; Chestnut Hill, MA Thesis: Free Will in the Cappadocian Fathers Director: Francine Cardman; Reader: Margaret Schatkin M.A. Systematic and Historical Theology 12/2010 Wheaton College; Wheaton, IL Thesis: Free Will in Clement, Origen, Methodius, and Athanasius Director: George Kalantzis; Reader: Alan Jacobs B.A. English Writing, Political Science, cum laude 05/2010 Wheaton College; Wheaton, IL English Writing Poetry Portfolio: Theology and Suffering ; Reader: Brett Foster Political Science Thesis: The Lamb and the Leviathan ; Reader: Larycia Hawkins Additional Programs: Medieval Greek Linguistics and Paleography 06 07/2015 American School of Classical Studies; Athens, Greece Intensive Course on Christian Arabic and Paleography 05/2015 Princeton University; Princeton, NJ

2 RESEARCH LANGUAGES Ancient/Medieval: Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Castilian, Aragonese, Italian, Catalan, Old/Middle French, Middle High German, Old Occitan, Middle English Modern: Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Russian PUBLICATIONS Book Translations (published or accepted for publication) Máximo el Confesor: La ambigua. Translated: Luis Josué Salés. In preparation for Corpus Christianorum in Translation, vol. TBD. Turnhout: Brepols (forthcoming, 2019). [Greek Spanish] Saint Maximus the Confessor: Four Hundred Chapters on Love. Translated: Luis Joshua Salés. In preparation for Popular Patristics Series, vol. TBD. Crestwood, NY: Saint Vladimir s Seminary Press (forthcoming, 2018). [Greek English] San Máximo el Confesor: Dos centurias sobre la teología y La mistagogía. Translated: Luis Josué Salés. In preparation for Clásicos del oriente cristiano, vol. TBD. Madrid: Editorial San Pablo (forthcoming, 2017). [Greek Spanish] Bunge, Gabriel. Spiritual Fatherhood: Evagrius Ponticus on the Role of the Spiritual Father. Translated: Luis Joshua Salés. Crestwood, NY: Saint Vladimir s Seminary Press, [German English] Saint Maximus the Confessor: Two Hundred Chapters on Theology. Translated: Luis Joshua Salés. Popular Patristics Series, vol. 53. Crestwood, NY: Saint Vladimir s Seminary Press, [Greek English] Book Manuscripts Under Review: A Byzantine Greek Reader (co-authored with Christopher Sweeney). Submitted to Cambridge University Press: November Journal Articles and Book Chapters (published or accepted for publication) Aristotelian as a Lingua Franca: Rationality in Christian Self-Representation under the Abbasids, in Studia Patristica, vols. 44&ff. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, (forthcoming, 2017). Can These Bones Live?: Gregory of Nyssa s Appropriation of Aristotelian Psychology in On the Soul and the Resurrection, in Sacris Erudiri, vol. 56 (forthcoming, 2017). A Power that Deifies Humanity and Humanizes God : The Psychodynamics of Love and Hypostatic Deification according to Maximos the Confessor (with Aristotle Papanikolaou), The International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, vol. 78:1 2 (2017), pp Virtue Will Bind the Wounds of Your Soul: Yaḥyā ibn Adī and The Love of All Humans under the Abbasids, in Healing, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness in Eastern Orthodox Perspectives. Editor: Lev Smith. New York, NY: Theotokos Press, 2015, pp St. Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Asceticism as Erosion of the Passions and the Gnomic Will, in Orthodox Monasticism: Past and Present. Editor: John A. McGuckin. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2014, pp Divine Incarnation through the Virtues: The Central Soteriological Role of Maximos the Confessor s Aretology, Saint Vladimir s Theological Quarterly, vol. 58:2 (2014), pp Book Reviews God s Many-Splendored Image, by Sr. Nonna Verna Harrison. Lumen et Vita, vol. 1:1 (2011).

3 PROFESSIONAL AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 1. The Agreement of Plato and Aristotle at the Twilight of the Roman Empire ( ): Ancient Sources, New Perspectives, and the Intellectual Birth of Modernity, The Annual Byzantine Studies Conference: Minneapolis, MN (October, 2017). 2. Philosophical Essentialism, Intellectual Hybridity, and Christian Propaganda: A Postcolonial Critique of Scholarly Erasures of the Aristotelian Legacy in Late Ancient Greek Christian Thought, The North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL (May, 2017) and panel convener for Specters of Aristotle: Christian Intellectual Identity Formation and the Transformation of the Aristotelian Legacy. Recipient of Best Graduate Student Paper Prize. 3. Maximos the Confessor on the Virtues and the Reintegration of the Fragmented Self, Gold and Clay: Healing and Transformation in Jungian Psychology and Orthodox Christianity: New York, NY (May, 2017). 4. Till Death Do Us Not Part: The Theological Significance of Gregory of Nyssa s Appropriation of Aristotelian Psychology, The Annual Byzantine Studies Conference: Ithaca, NY (October, 2016). 5. The Untold Story of Moschion of Hesfin: A Literary, Linguistic, and Contextual Reevaluation of the Syriac Life of Maximos the Confessor, The North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL (May, 2016). 6. Maximos of Constantinople: A Political-Circumstantial Assessment of the Greek and Syriac Lives of Maximos the Confessor, The Annual Byzantine Studies Conference: New York, NY (October, 2015). 7. Aristotelian as a Lingua Franca: Rationality in Christian Self-Representation under the Abbasids, XVII Conference on Patristics Studies: Oxford, UK (August, 2015). 8. What Has Jerusalem To Do with Tenochtitlán?: The Pre-Colonial Construction of Colonial Narrative in the Crusades and Reconquista, Sewanee University of the South s Annual Medieval Colloquium: Peace and War: Sewanee, TN (April, 2015). 9. Origen, Aristotle, and the Plausibility of the Resurrection, Plenary Lecture, Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies: Brookline, MA (March, 2015). 10. Virtue Will Bind the Wounds of your Soul: Yaḥyā ibn Adī and the Love of all Humans under the Abbasids, Sophia Institute Conference: New York, NY (December, 2014). 11. Can These Bones Live? Saint Gregory of Nyssa s Appropriation of Aristotle in On the Soul and the Resurrection, Boston Patristics Society Meeting at Harvard Divinity School: Cambridge, MA (November, 2014). 12. Correcting Misconceptions about Mysticism in Light of Virtue, The North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL (May, 2014). 13. The Internal Logic of Personhood: A Personalist Deconstruction of the Circumstantial Formation of Intellectual History, Columbia University Conference on the History of Religions: Part II: New York, NY (March, 2014). 14. A Byzantine Critique of Enlightenment-Modernity s and Postmodernity s Rationality : Case Studies in Maximos the Confessor s Pistemology and Axiology, Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies: Brookline, MA (March, 2014). 15. Deification according to Maximos the Confessor and the Transcendence of Aristotelian Metaphysics, Mary Jaharis Conference in Byzantine Studies: Brookline, MA (February, March, 2014).

4 16. Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Asceticism as Erosion of the Passions and the Gnomic Will, Holodny Prize Recipient for most outstanding pre-professorial presentation, Sophia Institute Conference: New York, NY (December, 2013). 17. Gender, Virtue, and Deification, Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies: Brookline, MA (March, 2013). 18. Rethinking Evil, Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies: Brookline, MA (March, 2012). 19. Resolving Hell: Maximos the Confessor s Eschatology and Apophasis, Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies: Brookline, MA (March, 2011). 20. Free Will in Origen s Writings, Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies: Brookline, MA (March, 2010). AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, North American Patristics Society for Philosophical Essentialism, Intellectual Hybridity, and Christian Propaganda: A Postcolonial Critique of Scholarly Erasures of the Aristotelian Legacy in Late Ancient Greek Christian Thought, delivered at North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, May Month Research Fellowship, Fordham University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Distinguished Awards Division: Academic Year (declined). Summer Research Fellowship, Fordham University, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Summer Professional Development Grant for Travel to Athens for Medieval Greek Program, Fordham University, Graduate Student Association, Fall Gennadius Library Medieval Greek Summer Session: Full Tuition and Housing Scholarship, A.G. Leventis Foundation, Summer Intensive Christian Arabic Workshop: Full Scholarship, Princeton University, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Summer Summer Research Fellowship, Fordham University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Summer Holodny Prize for most outstanding pre-professorial publication in Orthodox Monasticism: Past and Present, Sophia Institute, NY Presidential Scholarship, Fordham University, Master of Theology Scholarship, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Second Place: Three Holy Hierarchs Essay Writing Competition, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Master of Theological Studies: Full Tuition Fellowship, Boston College, Paul and Catherine Han Scholarship, Wheaton College,

5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Visiting Instructor of Early Christianity Mount Holyoke College; South Hadley, MA Undergraduate Courses Taught: Introduction to the New Testament (Fall 2017) The Body, Sex, and Early Christianity (Fall 2017) Premodern Muslim-Christian Encounters (Spring 2018) Christian Ethics: Premodern, Postmodern (Spring 2018) Classics of Eastern Christian Spirituality (Spring 2018) Graduate Teaching Fellow Fordham University; New York & Bronx, NY Undergraduate Courses Taught: Faith and Critical Reason (Fall 2015, Spring 2016) Byzantine Christianity (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) External Doctoral Dissertation Co-Director Universidad Iberoamericana; Mexico City, Mexico; with Prof. Dr. Emer. Isabel Contreras Islas Dos lecturas del fin del mundo: El Apocalipsis de Juan de Patmos y El juego del apocalipsis de Jorge Volpi ( Two Readings of the End of the World: Revelation by John of Patmos and The Game of the Apocalypse by Jorge Volpi ) by Michelle Pereira, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (ABD) Head Spanish and Latin Teacher German International School of Boston; Boston, MA TEACHING ASSISTANCE The Ethics of Life: Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Perspectives, Fordham University, Spring 2015; Dr. Kathryn Kueny, Fordham University Department of Theology. Ecology and Oikonomia in the Fathers, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Summer 2012; Dr. David K. Goodin, McGill University School of the Environment. Christian Identity Formation in the Second Century, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Summer 2012; Dr. David Jorgensen, Princeton University Department of History. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES NAPS: North American Patristics Society (2014 present) BSANA: Byzantine Studies Association of North America (2014 present)