Contributors
- Contributors
Anthony W. Bartlett is cofounder of the organization Theology and Peace, dedicated to theological and pastoral development of mimetic theory, and served as a board member and contributing theologian until 2013. He studied philosophy and theology at Heythrop College, UK, and Lateran University, Rome, Italy, between 1965 and 1974. He resigned from the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1984, worked as director of a homeless shelter in London, England, and in 1994 relocated with his wife and children to study at Syracuse University, New York, where he earned a Ph.D. He has taught at Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary Rochester and the General Theological Seminary in New York. He is author of a number of books and articles, most recently Virtually Christian: How Christ Changes Human Meaning and Makes Creation New.
João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and Researcher at CNPq. He is the author of Literatura e cordialidade: O público e o privado na cultura brasileira (1998; Mário de Andrade Award, National Library, Rio de Janeiro); O exílio do homem cordial: Ensaios e revisões (2004); Exercícios críticos: Leituras do contemporâneo (2008); Crítica literária: em busca do tempo perdido? (2011); Machado de Assis: por uma poética da emulação (2013; forthcoming [End Page 199] in English in 2015); and ¿Culturas shakespearianas? Teoría Mimética y América Latina (forthcoming in 2014). He has edited more than 20 books, among which are Lusofonia and Its Futures (2013); Antropofagia Hoje? Oswald de Andrade em cena; a collection of six volumes of Machado de Assis’s short stories (Record, 2008); Producing Presences in Portuguese: Branching Out from Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s Work (2007); The Author as Plagiarist: The Case of Machado de Assis (2006); and Brazil 2001: A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture (2001). His book of dialogues with René Girard and Pierpaolo Antonello, Evolution and Conversion (2008), has been translated into seven languages and received the Prix Aujourd’hui in France in 2004. He has received the following distinctions, among others: Visiting Research Fellowship (Princeton University, 2014); the Endowed Chair Francisco Eusebio Kino (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, 2011); the Endowed Chair Machado de Assis of Latin American Studies (Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana/Brazilian Embassy, Mexico, 2010); Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies (University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth, 2009); Research Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/Freie Universität, 2005–6); Ministry of Culture Visiting Fellow (University of Oxford, Centre for Brazilian Studies, 2004); Tinker Visiting Professorship (University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2003); Overseas Visiting Scholar (Cambridge University, St John’s College, 2002); and John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellow (Yale University, Beinecke Library, 2001).
Ryan Duns, SJ, is a graduate student at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
John P. Edwards is completing his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Boston College. His dissertation develops James Alison’s theological method as an “inductive” theology that understands and fosters the reciprocal relationship between persons’ experience of conversion to the crucified and risen Christ and the activity of theological reflection. His publications include “Being Freed from the Illusion of the Enemy: James Alison on Contemplative Prayer and Eucharistic Liturgy” in Selected Papers from the Theology Institute 42 (2011), and “The Self Before Mimetic Desire: Rahner and Alison on Original Sin and Conversion” in Horizons 35, no. 1 (Spring 2008). He has spent the last three years as the Retreat Coordinator in Campus Ministry at Villanova University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mathias Moosbrugger is the coordinator of a research project on Raymund Schwager’s theology and his correspondence with René Girard at [End Page 200] the Institute of Systematic Theology, University of Innsbruck. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Colloquium of Violence and Religion (COV&R) advisory board. He cofounded the Raymund Schwager Archive after Schwager’s death. In 2014, after books and articles mainly on historical topics, he published his theological dissertation on the Girard-Schwager controversy about Christ’s sacrifice, in which he developed a new approach to Schwager’s dramatic theology. He earned...
