John Gillespie, Professor of French Language and Literature (Emeritus) at Ulster University, is a former Head of the School of Languages and Literature, and Director of Research of the Faculty of Arts. Currently teaching Religious Education in the School of Education at Ulster, he has a BA and PhD from Queen’s, a Diploma in Theology from the University of London, is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Senior Teaching Fellow of the CS Lewis Institute Belfast.
He researches and supervises on the relation between literature, philosophy and Christian theology in the twentieth century, specifically antitheism and existentialism (Gide, Sartre, and Camus), and is a specialist on the life and works of CS Lewis.