Our Faculty
at the School of Divinity and Divinatory Studies
At Miskatonic University, where scholarship is pursued with seriousness, rigor, and a commendable tolerance for unsettling source material, the School of Divinity and Divinatory Studies stands as a distinguished center for the study of sacred traditions, prophetic systems, eschatological thought, and the complex relationship between mankind and the unseen orders it has sought, across the centuries, to name.
Our school is devoted to the academic investigation of theology in its broadest and most historically consequential forms. We examine canonical texts, heretical commentaries, ritual systems, visionary traditions, divinatory practices, and the recurring apocalyptic structures that have shaped civilizations from antiquity to the present day. Particular attention is given to those moments at which formal religion, metaphysical speculation, and cosmological dread become difficult to distinguish from one another.
Our faculty, a learned body of theologians, historians, philologists, and interpreters of sacred signs, guide students through a demanding course of study that joins doctrinal precision with historical depth. Their work ranges from the close reading of prophetic manuscripts and liturgical fragments to the comparative study of revelation, catastrophe, and the persistent human suspicion that the visible world may not represent the whole of creation.
Join us at the School of Divinity and Divinatory Studies, where faith, prophecy, and scholarship are examined with discipline, seriousness, and an appropriately measured reluctance. Here, students are invited to explore the spiritual and symbolic systems by which mankind has sought to understand its place in the cosmos, and to consider, with due caution, whether that place has ever been as central as once supposed.
Prof. Alistair Pembroke
Dean of the School of Divinity and Divinatory Studies
Prof. Alistair Pembroke serves as Dean of the School of Divinity and Divinatory Studies and is widely regarded as one of Miskatonic University’s foremost authorities on comparative eschatology and the theology of revelation. His work examines the recurring appearance of terminal visions, cosmic judgments, and non-anthropocentric orders of creation across otherwise unrelated religious traditions. Prof. Pembroke is particularly noted for his scholarship on prophetic literature in which salvation is displaced by disclosure, and in which mankind discovers, often too late, that it is neither the first nor the principal concern of the universe. Under his leadership, the school has become a respected center for the rigorous study of sacred texts, apocalyptic structures, and the intellectual management of unsettling doctrinal parallels.
Prof. Friedrich von Schwarztal
Professor of Patristics and Heresiology
Prof. Friedrich von Schwarzthal is a distinguished scholar of early theology, schismatic movements, and the doctrinal crises that arise when official cosmology proves insufficiently elastic. His research focuses on the writings of minor church fathers, condemned sectarians, and suppressed exegetes whose works suggest that orthodox theology has often defined itself less by certainty than by the careful exclusion of intolerable alternatives. Schwarzthal is especially interested in the language by which pre-modern thinkers attempted to distinguish angels, demons, powers, principalities, and other presences that resisted clean classification. His lectures are known for combining immense erudition with a manner so calm that students frequently realize only afterward how little comfort they have taken from them.
Prof. Simeon Thornwood
Professor of Eldritch Geochronology
Prof. Simeon Thornewood specializes in the history of divination, with particular emphasis on augury, oneiromancy, bibliomancy, celestial omens, and ritualized methods of extracting meaning from patterns that may or may not have been intended for human interpretation. His scholarship explores how civilizations have used signs, visions, and seemingly incidental configurations to infer the intentions of powers beyond ordinary perception. Thornewood’s work is especially concerned with the problem of interpretation: not merely how men read signs, but whether signs are ever addressed to them at all. His publications on sacred hermeneutics and ritual semiotics have made him a leading figure in the study of divination as both a religious discipline and a hazardous epistemology.
Dr. Matthias Corvin
Associate Professor of Apocalyptic Literature
Dr. Matthias Corvin is an expert in apocalyptic literature, visionary texts, and the rhetoric of endings. His research traces the literary and theological structures by which cultures imagine the collapse of the present order, the unveiling of concealed realities, and the return of powers thought absent, sleeping, or restrained. Corvin is particularly known for his comparative work on oceanic, stellar, and subterranean motifs in late antique and medieval revelatory texts, as well as for his studies of those traditions in which the end of the world is described not as destruction but as correction. His teaching is marked by philological precision, broad historical range, and a commendable unwillingness to use the phrase “mere symbolism” where the sources themselves give no such reassurance.
Dr. Adrian Bell
Assistant Professor of Liturgical Astrology and Prophetic Systems
Dr. Adrian Bell is one of the school’s younger rising scholars and serves as Assistant Professor of Liturgical Astrology and Prophetic Systems. His work examines the relationship between celestial observation, sacred calendars, ritual timing, and the persistent belief that certain configurations of the heavens alter the permeability of the world to revelation, visitation, or intrusion. Bell’s current research focuses on the overlap between medieval star theology, ceremonial practice, and recurrent traditions concerning conjunction, return, and awakening. Though early in his career, he has already earned distinction for his ability to synthesize textual scholarship, astronomical history, and doctrinal analysis into a coherent field of inquiry that senior faculty have described as “promising,” if at times unhelpfully suggestive.
