Contributors
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Mary Catherine Bateson is a cultural anthropologist who has taught at Harvard University, Amherst College, Spellman College, and George Mason University as well as overseas in Iran and the Philippines. Her books include With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (HarperPerennial, 1984) and best-selling Composing a Life (Penguin, 1989). Her latest is Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Vintage Books, 2010). She lives in Hancock, New Hampshire. mcatb@att-global.net
Ralph Black’s poems have appeared in the Gettysburg and Georgia Reviews, West Branch, and 32 Poems, among other journals. He is the author of Turning Over the Earth (Milkweed, 2000) and The Apples Psalms (Paper Lantern Press, 2008) and is the recipient of the Chelsea Poetry Prize and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review. He teaches at SUNY Brockport, where he is Co-Director of the Brockport Writers Forum. rwblack@brockport.edu
Rachel Blass is a psychoanalyst, head of the Psychology of Religion program at Heythrop College and a visiting professor at University College London. She has published and lectured widely on the conceptual, epistemological, and ethical foundations of psychoanalysis and their relevance to contemporary thinking and practice, focusing on Freud’s work and its evolution in Kleinian psychoanalysis.
Igor Boskic is a freelance photographer based in Rijeka, Croatia. For more information on him and his photography, visit: http://1x.com/artist/138036.iboskic@gmail.com
Rachel Fulton Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 (Columbia University Press, 2002), as well as numerous articles on the history and practice of Christian prayer. She is currently working on a study of the experience and meaning of saying the so-called “Little Office” or “Hours of the Virgin Mary.” http://fencingbearat-prayer.blogspot.com
Rina Castelnuovo has been working as a photographer for the New York Times in Israel since the mid-nineties, and for Time Magazine, Stern Magazine, and the Associated Press since the eighties. Her work presents a look into the [End Page 156] complex forces that drive the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The photo featured in Spiritus is part of an award-winning series focusing on the West Bank settlements and outposts, which Israel has promised to dismantle as part of its commitment to a two-state solution. http://www.andreameislin.com
Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology (Emeritus) at the University of Notre Dame. The author or editor of over twenty-five books, he is currently finishing the text for a photo book of the nearly sixty chapels on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. His last book was Introduction to Catholicism (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Matthew Eggemeier is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. His teaching and research interests include political and liberation theologies, postmodern theology, and the intersection between theological aesthetics and ecology.
Mary Frohlich, R.S.C.J., is a Sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart and Associate Professor of Spirituality at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Her research interests include mystical dimensions of “conversion of the Earth,” the contribution of women in seventeenth century French Spirituality, methodological issues in spirituality, and Carmelite Spirituality. Her publications include essays on spirituality as a discipline, Carmelite spiritual writers, and topics in ecospirituality.
Renata Furst is Assistant Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas where she also teaches Spirituality. She completed her doctorate in Old Testament at University of Montreal with a fellowship from the Hispanic Theological initiative, a program of the Pew Foundation, and she is trained to lead the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Kenneth Garcia is the Associate Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of “Academic Freedom and the Service Theologians Must Render the Academy” (Horizons, Spring 2011). His book, Academic Freedom and the Telos of the Catholic University will be published in 2012...
