Francis joined the faculty at McMaster Divinity College in 2016 after teaching Biblical Greek at MDC since 2014. Francis has a keen interest in the language and texts of the New Testament. His research focuses on the verbal system of Hellenistic Greek and in particular how lexical semantics is related to Greek verbal aspect. He serves as an associate editor for Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics. Francis is also interested in the synoptic gospels and the historical development of eschatological thoughts in the early church. He has published several articles on the Greek verbal system and a monograph entitled Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart: A Corpus Approach to Koine Greek Event Typology.