Contributors
- Contributors
William Carleton (1794-1869), born into a Catholic Irish-speaking farm family in Co. Tyrone, was hedge-school educated, studied for the priesthood, and became a member of the Ribbonmen in 1813. He revoked all these commitments in his subsequent novels and stories. He is fairly credited for realistic depiction of Irish rural life, and discredited for his support of the Union.
Eugene Galyona is a postgraduate student at the Philosophy Faculty of Karazin Kharkov National University (Ukraine). He is writing a doctoral dissertation on "Poetics and Anthropology of Cruelty." He is also an administrative assistant for the intercollegiate seminar "Koinonia" which is devoted to the philosophy of the Other and boundary themes. In 2008 he won the second-place prize of the Raymund Schwager Memorial Award. He recently published "Girardian meditations: from mimetic desire toward imitation instinct" (Koinonia: A journal of Philosophy of the Other and Theology of Communication).
Stephen L. Gardner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa and currently Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. He is the author of Myths of Freedom: Equality, Modern Thought, and Philosophical Radicalism (1998), and of numerous articles on modern thinkers, including René Girard, Philip Rieff, and Raymond Aron. [End Page 181]
Per Bjørnar Grande is Associate Professor at Bergen University College, Norway, in Religion & Philosophy. Grande has published five books: Mimesis and Desire. An Analysis of the Religious Nature of Mimesis in the Work of René Girard, (Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, 2009); essays on mimetic theory in Etterligningens dilemma (Sogndal, Norway: HSF-rapport, 1995); on ideologies in Sentrale livssyn (Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2004), on Christianity in Kristendommen. En innføring (Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2005), and Den ortodokse kirke (Kristiansand, Norway: Høyskoleforlaget, 2009). Grande has also published a number of articles on mimetic theory, mostly related to religion.
Joel Hodge is a lecturer in Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, the Australian Catholic University, at St. Patrick's campus in Melbourne, Australia. He previously taught at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, USA. He received his doctorate from The University of Queensland. His dissertation was entitled 'Stories from the Hidden Heart of "sacred violence": An exploration of violence and Christian faith in East Timor in dialogue with René Girard's mimetic insight.' His research focused on how Christianity forms responses to violence and oppression, with a particular focus on East Timor.
Pasquale Maria Morabito is Contract Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Faculty of Political Science, University of Messina, and teaches Cultural Anthropology at the Institute of Theology "Pio XI" and at ISSR Institute, Pontifician Faculty of Theology in Southern Italy, Reggio Calabria. At present he holds a research grant in Political Philosophy at Messina University. He has published essays on Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Baltsar Gracián, and "Il passaggio di S. Paolo a Reggio: catastrofe pagana e fondazione cristiana della città in Atti 28, 3," in Catastrofi generative. Mito, storia, letteratura, ed. M. S. Barberi (Ancona-Massa, Italy: Transeuropa, 2009).
Phil Rose holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from York University, Toronto. His research interests include the evolution of symbol systems and communications media; social and cultural issues related to literacy; and concerns pertaining to technology and violence. His dissertation "Pragmatism Not Idealism: Radiohead, Technopoly, and the Global Movement for Change" (2009) incorporates all of these areas, and represents an appraisal of technological change at the dawn of the digital age, particularly as articulated in the work of the contemporary British musical group Radiohead. He is also the author of the book Which One's Pink? The [End Page 182] Concept Albums of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd (Burlington, Ontario: Collector's Guide Publication, 1998).
Sean Salai, SJ, is a Jesuit scholastic and theology teacher at Jesuit High School of Tampa, Florida. He earned an M.A. in Applied Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago in May 2010 and has subsequently published his thesis ("Catechizing the Head and the Heart: An Integrated Model for Confirmation Ministry") in the Heythrop Journal. For three years, he taught the Catholic sacraments to confirmation students at St. Procopius Jesuit Church in Chicago.
Kathleen M. Vandenberg is a Lecturer in...
