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Mark Bosco

Mark Bosco
Title: Assistant 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

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

Recent Publications:
"Erik Langkjaer: The One Flannery 'Used to Go With.'" The Flannery O'Connor Review, Volume 5 (2007).


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

"Coloring Catholicism Greene." Lonely Without God: Centennial Essays on Graham Greene, 2005.

"Consenting to Love: Autobiographical Roots of 'Good Country People.'" Southern Review 41 (2005): 283-95.

"John L'Heureux: Charting a Post-Vatican II Literary Imagination." Listening 40 (2005): 78-92.

Books:
Academic Novels as Satire: Critical Studies of an Emerging Genre.  (Editor and contributor).  New York:  Edwin Mellen Press (2007).

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

Work-in-Progress:
"Hollywood's Use (and Abuse) of Flannery O'Connor's Aesthetics of Violence."  Chapter in upcoming volume, Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism (Spring 2008)

New introduction to Penguin Classics publication of Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul

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

Offices Held:
Director of LUC Catholic Studies Minor

Department of English
Crown Center for the Humanities
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
773.508.2240

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