Personal Information

Degree:

Ph.D. Stanford University, 1999

Specialization:
Modern European History

Research Interests:
Intellectual-cultural history of religion, Catholicism, Jesuits 

Publications: 

“The Charm of Impossibilities: Mystic Surrealism as Contemplative Voluptuousness.” In Messiaen the Theologian, ed. Andrew Shenton (Ashgate, 2010), 163-182.

“The Rise of a Mystic Modernism. Maritain and the Sacrificed Generation of the Twenties.”  In The Maritain Factor: Taking Religion Into Interwar Modernism ( KADOC Studies On Religion, Culture and Society 7 ), eds. Rajesh Heynickx and Jan De Maeyer (Leuven University Press/Presses Universitaires de Louvain/Universitaire Pers Leuven; distributed in North America by Cornell University Press, 2010), 28-39.

“Vivo ergo cogito: Modernism as Temporalization and its Discontents: A Propaedeutic to This Collection.” In The Reception of Pragmatism in France and the Rise of Catholic Modernism, 1890-1914, ed. David Schultenover (Catholic University of America Press, 2009), 21-58.

Mystic Masque: Reality and Semblance in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958.  Edited by  Stephen Schloesser (McMullen Museum of Art; distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2008). Exhibition catalog for:   http://www.bc.edu/bc_org /avp/cas/artmuseum/exhibitions/archive/mystic-masque/index.html  

“The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Re-sourcing Catholic Intellectual Traditions.” In Cross Currents 58/1 (Spring 2008): 65-94. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1939-3881.2008.00005.x/pdf

 
“Against Forgetting: Memory, History, Vatican I.” In Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?, ed. David Schultenover, (Continuum, 2008), 92-152.ed.

“‘Not behind but within’: sacramentum et res.” In Renascence 58/1 (Fall 2005): 17-39. [Issue on Denise Levertov]

Jazz-Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. (University of Toronto Press, 2005).

Course for Fall 2011:

History 410: Twentieth Century Jesuits: An Intellectual History

Course for Spring 2012:

History 291: Junior Colloquium: Historical Methods