John Gillespie is a Professor Emeritus at Ulster University in Northern Ireland where he served as the Chair of French Language and Literature and was honored as the first person from Northern Ireland to be named Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is also known as a C.S. Lewis Scholar and has lectured on the life of C.S. Lewis and his Northern Irish heritage. He is the Senior Teaching Fellow for the C.S. Lewis Institute – Belfast. He has his bachelor’s degree and his Ph.D. from Queens University in Belfast. He also has a Diploma in Theology from London University and has taught at Belfast Bible College.