Grant Horner

Professor Grant Horner is a scholar of Renaissance and Reformation literature, theology, and philosophy with a PhD in literature from Claremont Graduate University. His research centers on Christian Humanism and the interplay between emerging Reformed thought and classical Graeco-Roman myth and philosophy, with primary concentrations in Milton, Shakespeare, Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin. Mentored at Duke by Stanley Fish, he has published on theology and the arts, Milton, and Calvin. His books include Meaning at the Movies (Crossway, 2010), John Milton, Classical Learning, and the Progress of Virtue (Classical Academic Press, 2015), and shorter works on Dracula and Paradise Lost. At The Master’s University he twice received “Professor of the Year” (2001, 2007) and founded and directs the six-week Italy Program in Florence, with study in Rome and Venice around the humanist question quid est homo?  An Alcuin Fellow, he helped establish the upper school and designed the original Humanities program for the Rhetoric School at Trinity Classical Academy in Los Angeles, where he later served as chair and continues to mentor teachers. He also holds an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin at Fuller Seminary and works with early printed books and rare manuscripts at The Huntington Library. A frequent speaker on theology, philosophy, and popular culture, he has made 100+ radio and TV appearances and has lectured at Berkeley and Caltech. He and his wife, Joanne, live in Santa Clarita, California, enjoy watching and discussing films. When not sailing the Channel Islands—he pursues world-class climbing, including multiple one-day ascents of Yosemite’s El Capitan and a sub-24-hour “Nose” ascent in 12:52.