Matthew Edholm

Biography

Matthew Edholm grew up in a military family, and as such hails from everywhere and nowhere. He has lived in such varied places as Arizona, Colorado, Germany, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington State, and Scotland. 

After spending three years on active duty as a Combat Engineer in the Army, he completed his BA in Humanities, then went on to the University of St. Andrews where he took an MLitt in Medieval Studies. From there, he studied English literature at Villanova University before returning to Scotland where he completed a PhD in Medieval History under the supervision of Prof. James T. Palmer. His dissertation studied the influence of classical Roman authors on several monastic writers at Fulda in the mid-ninth century. At Thomas More College he teaches Latin, writing, and ancient and medieval literature in the humanities sequence.

His interests include Classical literature and its reception in the Late Antique and medieval periods; Charlemagne and Carolingian Europe; manuscripts of any kind; the monastery of Fulda and its famous abbot, Hrabanus Maurus; medieval literature; and the poetry of Bernardus Silvestris. For fun, he never ceases to delight in reading Virgil’s Aeneid and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. He enjoys cooking, Milwaukee Brewers baseball, anything to do with whales, and spending time with his wife Jordan and their three children.