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Dr. Gavin Richardson received his B.A. in English and Classics from Vanderbilt University and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. At Union he has taught classical and medieval courses, including seminars on the Aeneid, Beowulf, Chaucer, and the History of the English Language. Dr. Richardson has presented papers at conferences sponsored by the International Congress of Medieval Studies, the Southeastern Medievalist Association, and Christianity in the Academy. His most recent publication surveys the use of the solar deity on the coinage of Constantine the Great (Koinon 4, 2021), and he has a forthcoming essay examining The Screwtape Letters in light of the medieval "letter of the devil" tradition, and another forthcoming work exploring the role of the Roman denarius in the New Testament. Dr. Richardson's current research interests involve late Roman imperial coinage. In 2023, Dr. Richardson secured a grant from the Lilly Foundation to design a mentoring program for senior faculty, and he currently sits on the UU SASCOC Reaffirmation Executive Committee. Dr. Richardson has twice won the Newell Innovative Teaching Award, and in 2012 he was named Union University Faculty of the Year.