About Mark Vessey Mark Vessey is a professor in the Department of English and Canada Research Chair in Literature / Christianity and Culture at the University of British Columbia. Books by Mark Vessey Erasmus on Literature His Ratio or ‘System' of 1518/1519 edited by Mark Vessey translated with commentary by Robert D. Sider foreword by Anthony Grafton The Calling of the Nations Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present edited by Mark Vessey, Sharon Betcher, Robert Daum & Harry Maier Augustine and the Disciplines From Cassiciacum to Confessions edited by Karla Pollmann & Mark Vessey Cassiodorus: Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning by (author) James W. Halporn & Mark Vessey