Speakers - Catholic Imagination Conference - University of Dallas

Uwem Akpan was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. Uwem's short 故事和自传体作品出现在 The New Yorker, the Oprah magazine, Hekima Review, the Nigerian Guardian, America, etc.

His first book, Say You're One of Them, was published in 2008 by Little, Brown. It made the "Best of the Year" list at People magazine, Wall Street Journal, and other places. His second book and first novel, New York, My Village, was published on November 2, 2021, by WW Norton. In this immigrant story, Uwem writes about NYC with the same promise and pain we saw in his African cities of Say You're One of Them.

Uwem一直是黑山研究所(内华达大学，拉斯维加斯)的研究员 Vegas, 2010), Institute for the Humanities (University of Michigan, 2011), Yaddo Foundation (Saratoga Springs, New York, 2012), the Cullman Center (the New York Public Library, 2013) and the Hang Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage (Loyola University Chicago, 2017).

Uwem teaches in the University of Florida's MFA Program.

Glenn Arbery is president of Wyoming Catholic College. In addition to numerous essays and reviews, he has published two volumes with ISI Books, Why Literature Matters (2001) and The Southern Critics (2010), editor. He is also the editor of The Tragic Abyss (2003) for the Dallas Institute Press and Augustine’s Confessions and Its Influence, St. Augustine Press (2019). His novel Bearings and Distances was published by Wiseblood Books in 2015, and his second, Boundaries of Eden, was published in 2020.

Jason M. 巴克斯特是怀俄明天主教大学美术与人文学科的副教授 College and the author of multiple books, including Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Comedy (Baker Academic) and 世界的无限美丽:但丁的百科全书和上帝的名字 (Peter Lang).

Christopher Beha is the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts & Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. His latest novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, and London Review of Books. He is the editor of Harper’s Magazine. He lives in New York City with his wife and family. 

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Fr. Bosco came to Georgetown from Loyola University 在芝加哥，他是神学系的终身教员 English. Fr. 博斯科的研究重点是神学与艺术的交叉， the British and American Catholic literary traditions. 

卢克·伯吉斯是美国天主教大学的驻校企业家 author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Every Life.

Katy Carl is the editor in chief of Dappled Things magazine and the author of As Earth 小说《云顶集团4008om》(Wiseblood Books, 2021)和《云顶集团》: My Soul Magnifies the Lord (Catholic Truth Society, 2021). Her work has appeared in 《云顶集团》，《云顶集团》，《云顶集团》，《云顶集团》，《云顶集团》，《云顶集团》 Review, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Evangelization & Culture, Angelus, Psaltery & Lyre, Sostenuto, Mom Egg Review, Genealogies of Modernity, St. Louis magazine, the National Catholic Register, and the Mid/South Anthology, among others. She is 他是宗教与城市公民研究项目的高级研究员 Society located at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at the University of St. Thomas—Houston. Her short story collection is forthcoming from Wiseblood Books in 2023.

Lesley Clinton is a writer, editor, and educator. Her chapbook, Calling the Garden from the Grave, won second place in the 2021 National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in THINK, The Windhover, Mezzo Cammin, Ekstasis Magazine, America, Christianity & Literature, and elsewhere.

Paul J. Contino is Professor of Great Books at Pepperdine University where he has taught since 2002 and twice been granted the university’s Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. He has published essays on contemporary Catholic writers such as Tobias Wolff, Andre Dubus and Alice McDermott. His essay on teaching the theological dimensions of The Divine Comedy was recently published in MLA Approaches to Teaching Dante. Last year, his book, Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs, was named a finalist for both the Lilly Fellows and the Conference on Christianity and Literature book awards.

Sarah Cortez is founder and president of Catholic Literary Arts. A professional writer and editor, educator and public speaker, she is a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She regularly teaches professional development workshops to train teachers in the pedagogy of creative writing. 她曾担任哈里斯县教育局的教育顾问 of Education and trained teachers through Humanities Texas. She is the founder of 无所畏惧的写作，一个可访问资源的在线资源，使教育者和 parents to teach creative writing.

Anthony Domestico是纽约州立大学Purchase学院文学系主任 and the books columnist for Commonweal. His reviews and essays have appeared in the Atlantic, the Baffler, Book Post, the Boston Globe, and Literary Hub, among many other places. His book, Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period, is available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Michial Farmer is a poet and essayist, the author of Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction (Camden House, 2017) and the translator of Gabriel Marcel's Thirst (Cluny, 2021). His poems and essays have appeared in Front Porch Republic, America Magazine, and Dappled Things, among other venues. After a decade in higher education, he teaches Western civilization 他和妻子维多利亚住在亚特兰大的一所古典特许学校. 

Abigail Favale is an award-winning writer in multiple genres. She is the author of Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion and The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. 

Dr. 詹妮弗·弗雷(Jennifer Frey)是南方大学哲学副教授 天主教大学人类生态研究所的研究员 of America. 她在行为、美德、实践理性和元伦理学方面发表了大量文章， and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology.

Jonathan Geltner was born in Eastern Massachusetts but grew up mainly in Cincinnati, Ohio. 他在辛辛那提大学学习英语、古典文学和法语 graduate work in English at the University of Chicago, and earned an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. He published a translation of Paul Claudel’s Five Great Odes with Angelico Press in 2020. Absolute Music is his first novel.

Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent. The first person in his family to attend college, he received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in Comparative Literature. His most recent book, 99 Poems: New & Selected 这本书收集了乔亚整个职业生涯的作品，包括十几首非凡的新诗.

Shemaiah Gonzalez writes for a variety of Catholic publications including Catholic News Services, Loyola Press, U.S. Catholic, and America. Her biography on Catholic 作家布莱恩·道尔的新书将于2023年春季由礼仪出版社出版. Shemaiah lives in Seattle with her attorney husband and two middle school sons.

Ron Hansen is the author of ten novels—including The Kid, Mariette in Ecstasy, Desperadoes, and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion—and two short story collections, among them She Loves Me Not. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James 罗伯特·福特是笔会/福克纳奖的决赛选手 finalist for the National Book Award.

Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde, La Repubblica, Die Welt, Zvezda, Colta, Zeszyty Literackie, The Kenyon Review, Quarterly Conversation, The Georgia Review, and Civilization.

乔·胡佛是耶稣会的教友，也是作家和演员. As an actor he has appeared in productions Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and regionally. 他自己的戏剧在纽约市和他的家乡奥马哈制作. He founded Xavier Theatre and Film to produce new works in the Catholic arts tradition. He currently works as Poetry Editor of America Magazine.

Joshua Hren is the founder and publisher of Wiseblood Books. Fictionist, poet, and critic, he has written seven books: the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press; How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic; Contemplative Realism: A Theological Aesthetical Manifesto; 《中土世界与公共利益的回归:托尔金与政治哲学; Last Things, First Things, and Other Lost Causes: Poems; and the novel Infinite Regress. Alongside James Matthew Wilson, Joshua founded the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas Houston. 

菲尔·克莱是美国海军陆战队老兵，著有《 Missionaries被《华尔街日报》评为2022年十大最佳书籍之一 Redeployment, which received the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. He teaches at Fairfield University, and his latest book of nonfiction, Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War, was published with Penguin Press in May.

Johnson is a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She writes literary essays, fiction, 新闻，关于莎士比亚和文艺复兴文化的学术书籍，以及批评 天主教文艺复兴时期被遗忘的女性的小说版本. In Cambridge, she teaches English Literature and sits on the steering committee of the BBC / Cambridge National Short Story Prize.

Elly Lindsay was last seen at Amphibian Stage Productions as Player One in Babette’s Feast. 在过去的40年里，她在许多地区的舞台上工作过，包括Undermain， Echo Theater, Wingspan, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Children’s Theater, Water Tower Theater, Amphibian Stage Productions, Stage West and Circle Theater. She received D杂志最佳女演员奖和达拉斯沃斯堡评论家论坛奖 her role as Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful at The Contemporary Theater of Dallas. Elly taught for more than fifteen years at Booker T. Washington HSPVA and KD Actors Conservatory. Thanks to her husband, Randy Bonifay, for his constant support.

Paul Mariani is an award-winning poet, biographer and critic. Mariani is the author of twenty books, including eight volumes of poetry and biographies of Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. Mariani is a former poetry editor at America and University Professor of English Emeritus at Boston College.

Dr. Kathleen Marks is an Associate Professor, Chair of English and Speech, and Director of Liberal Studies in the Collins College of Professional Studies at St. John’s University, NYC. Her book, Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination (University of Missouri Press, 2002) explores the intersection between African American literature and ancient Greek religion. Kathleen lives in Queens with her English professor husband and college student daughter.

Trevor Merrill’s reviews and essays have appeared in The University Bookman, Dappled Things, Catholic Arts Today, and others. He writes a column for L’Atelier du roman，法国文学评论，并编辑和翻译了雷诺·吉拉德的作品. His novel Minor Indignities is now available from Wiseblood Books.

Julia Meszaros is a theologian at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University Maynooth (Ireland) working in the area of theological anthropology and drawing on the intersection between theology and literature. Together with Bonnie Lander Johnson, she edits the series ‘Catholic women writers’ for CUA press.

Born in San Diego on July 4th, 1970, Philip Metres grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Holy Cross College in 1992, and spent the following year in Russia on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship pursuing an independent project called “Contemporary Russian Poetry and Its Relationship to Historical Change.” Since receiving a Ph.D. in English and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University in 2001, Metres has written and translated a number of books and chapbooks. 

Mary Ann Buddenberg Miller is professor of English at Caldwell University in Caldwell, New Jersey, and founding editor-in-chief of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, an annual professional print poetry journal that publishes new poems and translations, 采访、书评和天主教信仰下的诗歌散文. She is editor of St. Peter's B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (Ave Maria Press, 2014), the Fall 2019 selection by America Magazine’s The Catholic Book Club.

Michael Murphy is Director of Loyola’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. 他在研究生院获得了神学、文学和哲学博士学位 伯克利神学联盟，旧金山州立大学英语硕士， and undergraduate degrees in English and Great Books from the University of San Francisco. His first book, A Theology of Criticism, was named a "Distinguished Publication" in 2008 by the American Academy of Religion.

安吉拉·阿莱莫·奥唐奈是一位作家、诗人，也是美国福特汉姆大学的教授 New York City where she teaches English, Creative Writing, and American Catholic Studies. She also serves as Associate Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. 除了她的奖学金，奥唐纳写诗和创造性的非小说.

Tsh Oxenreider是几本非小说类书籍的作者，其中包括英国的《云顶集团》 World, Shadow & Light, and Bitter & Sweet. A long-time podcaster, she currently co-hosts the show A Drink With a Friend and writes the popular Substack newsletter The Commonplace. Her other hats include travel guide, high school English teacher, and mother to two teens and a tween. Tsh目前正在她的后院拖车办公室里写她的第一部小说 in a small town north of Austin, Texas.

Paul Pastor is a poet, author of several books (most recently Bower Lodge: Poems from Fernwood Press), and serves as an editor for two of Random House's Christian imprints. His poetry has been published by many respected outlets, including The Windhover, Ekstasis, Fathom, North American Anglican, and Solum Literary Press, and has been anthologized by the New York Quarterly Review. He lives in Oregon.

Jeannine M. Pitas is a writer, teacher and Spanish-English literary translator who teaches in the English department at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.  She is also a regular contributor to the Catholic blog Vox Nova.

Gloria Purvis is a graduate of Cornell University. She is an author, commentator and 格洛丽亚·珀维斯播客的主持人和执行制片人 America Media. Through her media presence, she has been a strong Catholic voice for life issues, religious liberty, and racial justice. She has appeared in various media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post， PBS新闻一小时，EWTN晚间新闻和天主教问答直播，并曾主持过 Morning Glory, an international radio show. She was named Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic of The Year for 2020. She is the Inaugural Pastoral Fellow at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame University.

Brett Robinson is director of communications and Catholic media studies at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. In his role, he oversees outreach efforts for the institute 同时在宗教、科技和文化的交叉点进行研究.

Renée D. 罗登是天主教艺术家联系的执行董事，也是一名毕业生 of the University of Notre Dame and Columbia Journalism School. Her plays have appeared at The Tank, the Bushwick Starr, and Triskelion Arts. Her writing has appeared in the Associated Press, Washington Post, Religion News Service, The Tablet, and America Magazine.

Edward Short is the author of several books on Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, as well as Adventures in the Book Pages: Essays and Reviews (2015). In August, Gracewing will be publishing The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse, which Mr. Short has chosen and introduced, as well as his latest book of literary and historical essays, What the Bells Sang.

Maya Sinha writes essays and fiction about modern culture and family life. Her work has appeared in 灯，斑驳的东西，现代性谱系，全球书展，回归, and many other publications. From 2019 to 2021, she wrote a regular humor column for The Saturday Evening Post. She is the author of the novel The City Mother (Chrism Press 2022). 

James K.A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and serves as editor in chief of Image journal, a quarterly devoted to “art, mystery, and faith.” An award-winning author, his books include Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? (2006), Desiring the Kingdom (2009), How (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor (2014), You Are What You Love (2016), Awaiting the King (2017), On the Road with Saint Augustine (2019) and The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology (2021). His next book, 如何栖居时间:了解过去，面对未来，忠实地生活 Now, will be published in 2022.

Dorian Speed is a writer and educator who has spoken at the University of Notre Dame 德·尼古拉伦理与文化中心的会议，他的作品发表在 Dappled Things and 沃克·珀西的《云顶集团4008om》.

海莉·斯图尔特是Word on Fire Spark的总编辑，著有 The Grace of Enough, Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life, and a series for young readers, The Sister Seraphina Mysteries. 海莉是贝勒大学的学者，也是《云顶集团4008om》的联合主持人 of Carrots Podcast. She has four children and her husband, Daniel, is a whisky distiller.

Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, and a newly named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. 他是德克萨斯州休斯顿人，毕业于当地的表演高中 在获得了视觉艺术(HSPVA)学士学位后，她放弃了古典钢琴的教育，转而学习爵士乐 epiphany during undergraduate studies at UT Austin. Helen went on to become part of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute (now the Herbie Hancock Institute) at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her recent releases Sung With Words (Stricker Street)，这是一个与著名诗人Dana Gioia合作的项目 a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant, and Anthem For A New Day (Concord Jazz) topped the jazz charts. Helen and her band have performed at major American festivals and venues including Newport, Monterey, Disney Hall, SFJAZZ, and Carnegie Hall.

Sally Thomas is the author of a poetry collection, Motherland (Able Muse Press 2020), a forthcoming novel, Works of Mercy (Wiseblood Books 2022), and two poetry chapbooks. She is also co-editor of Christian Poetry in America Since 1940: An Anthology (Paraclete Press 2022). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in such venues as First Things, Plough Quarterly, and Public Discourse. Currently she serves as Associate Poetry Editor for the New York Sun.

弗雷德里克·特纳(Frederick Turner)是德克萨斯州云顶集团艺术与人文学科创始人教授 Institute Fellow, and award-winning author of numerous volumes of criticism and poetry.

赛斯·维克的小说、散文和诗歌曾在《云顶集团4008om》等杂志上发表 Narrative Magazine, Front Porch Republic, and the Broad River Review where he won the Ron Rash Award in Fiction. He lives in Amarillo with his wife and three children.

James Matthew Wilson is Professor of Humanities and the Founding Director of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing, at the University of Saint Thomas, Houston. 他是一位获奖的哲学神学和文学学者，著有 dozens of essays, articles, and reviews on all manner of subjects secular and divine.

Gregory Wolfe is the founding editor of the indie, non-profit literary press, Slant Books. In 1989 he founded Image—one of America’s leading literary journals, which he edited for thirty years. He was also the founding director of the Seattle Pacific University MFA in Creative Writing program. Wolfe’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, and America. His books include Beauty Will Save the World, Intruding Upon the Timeless, and The Operation of Grace.

Jared Zimmerer is the Senior Director of Bishop Robert Barron’s Word on Fire Institute. He is a doctoral candidate in humanities at Faulkner University’s Great Books Honors College where he is finishing his dissertation on the work of Russell Kirk. He holds a master’s degree in theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He and his wife Jessica have six children and live in North Texas.