Mark Bosco
	Title:	Associate Professor
	E-mail:	mbosco@luc.edu

Personal Information

Education:
B.A. (1987), Cardinal Glennon College; M.A. (1996),
St. Louis University; M.Div. (1998), Jesuit School of Theology; Ph.D. (2003), Graduate Theological Union Interdisciplinary Studies in Theology and Literature 

Teaching and Research Interests:
20th-Century American and British Literature; the Catholic Literary Tradition; Aesthetics, Art, and the Religious Imagination

Recent Publications:                                                                                                                                                                                                            "George Bernanos and Francis Poulenc:  Catholic Convergences in Dialogues of the Carmelites."  LOGOS:  A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Spring 2009.

"The Honorary Consul and Monsignor Quixote:  Charting the Post-Vatican II 'Catholic' Novel."  Lonely Without God:  Graham Greene's Quixotic Journey of Faith. Ed. William Thomas Hill.  (Bethesda, MD:  Academia Press, LLC, 2008)  209-22.

"Erik Langkjaer:  The One Flannery 'Used to Go With.'"  The Flannery O'Connor Review.  Volume 5, 2007:  44-55.

Books:
Academic Novels as Satire: Critical Studies of an Emerging Genre.  Co-editor with Kimberly Rae Connor.  New York:  Edwin Mellen P, 2007.

Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination.  Oxford UP, 2005. 

Teaching Philosophy:
To foster a discussion about the interplay between art and religious discourse in the study of fiction

Work-in-Progress:
"Flannery O'Connor as Baroque Artist:  Theological and Literary Strategies."

"Charting a Post-Vatican II Catholic Literary Imagination in America" upcoming ms.

Offices Held:
Director of LUC Catholic Studies Minor