Contributors

Contributors Don J. Briel is Koch Chair in Catholic Studies, director of the Center for Catholic Studies, and chair of the Department ofTheology at the University of St. Thomas. He received his doctorat en théologie Catholique from die University of Strasbourg in 1 980. Nicholas Constas received a Ph.D., in historical theology from Catholic University in 1994 and is currently teaching patristics and Byzantine art at Hellenic College—Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School ofTheology. He is also the assistant editor of die Greek Orthodox Theological Review. In 1992-1993 he was a junior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University's Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, D.C. He recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct research at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Sally Fitzgerald is editor of The Habit ofBeing (a substantial collection of O'Connor's letters), the well-known Three By Flannery O'Connor, the prestigious Library of America edition of O'Connor's writing, and, with Robert Fitzgerald, Mystery and Manners (a selection of O'Connor's occasional pieces). She is currently writing a biography of O'Connor. James Gordley is Shannon CecilTurner Professor ofJurisprudence in the School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley. He received a B.A., and M.B.A., from the University of Chicago and a J.D., from Harvard University. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Centro Nazionale della Ricerche, the Deutscheforschungsgemein-schqft, and the Istituto di diritto conquonato (The Institute for Medieval Canon Law and the Harvard Law School, Florence, Italy). Michael C. Jordan is Chair of the Department of English and Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He earned his B.A., from St. John's College inAnnapolis, and his M.A. , and Ph.D. , degrees in comparative literature from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. His teaching and scholarship are in the areas of literary theory and the classical tradition, and he is currendy working on issues in theological aesthetics. Ian Ker is the author of the standard biography of Newman published by the Clarendon Press of Oxford as well as editor (withThomas Cornali) of volumes 1 -4 of The teters and Diaries ofJohn Henry Newman. He has also edited Newman's The Idea ofa University and An Essay in Aid ofa Grammar ofAssent. He has served as lecturer in English at the University of York and as Catholic chaplain at Oxford. Janine Langan is the William J. Bennet Professor of Christianity and Culture at St. Michael's College, University ofToronto. She is former director of the Programme in Christianty and Culture. A specialist in English, French, and Russian literature, she teaches courses in "The Christian Imagination,""Christian Classics,""Christianity and Symbols," and"Christianity and Modernity."She received a B.A. , from Smidi, a Licence d'enseignement dès Lettres modernes from the Sorbonne, and a Ph.D., from Indiana University. AlDAN NICHOLS, English Dominican, was educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, has taught at the Angelicum in Rome, Oscott College in Birmingham, and Blackfriars, Oxford. He is currently a member of the Cambridge University Divinity faculty. He is author of some twenty books on various aspects oftheology. Joseph Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of English at Marquette University where he served as chair of the department for many years. For eighteen years he was editor of Renascence and is currently Senior Editor. He is a recipient of the Pere Marquette Award for Teaching Excellence. Among his many publications are the primary and secondary bibliographies of Hart Crane. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nathan A. Scott, Jr. , is William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies as well as Professor Emeritus of English at the University ofVirginia. Among his numerous books are Samuel Beckett, Negative Capability: Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation, The Wild Prayer ofLonging:Poetry and the Sacred, The Poetics ofBelief, and Visions ofPresence in Modern American Poetry. He is a Fellow ofthe American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elizabeth Sewell is the author ofthree novels, a collection ofpoetry, and several critical studies: The Structure...