The Rev'd Canon Dr Alison Milbank is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, where she has taught since 2004, and also Canon Theologian at Southwell Minster. Her research expertise is in theology and culture, including: literature, art, architecture, film and music; religious aesthetics and ideas of the beautiful, ugly, horrific; Gothic and horror fiction and its relation to religion; Dante; Anglican theology, especially ecclesiology and the nature of the church; GK Chesterton and JRR Tolkien. Her books include: 'Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians’ and ‘God and the Gothic’ (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her media experience includes appearances on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Nottingham, ABC (Australia), Mars Hill (USA) and the Guardian.

Alison taught two masterclasses at ADM’s School of Theology, Culture & Public Engagement 2019 covering topics including apologetics and the imagination, God and the gothic, fantasy literature, and the theological significance of the literary mode of the novel.

Listen to A/Professor Milbank’s opening keynote lecture at STCPE 2019