Contributor Notes
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Susan Johnston is associate professor of English and coordinator of first-year English at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, where she specializes in literary history and theory, philosophical criticism, genre, and nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Her current interest is in the development of theological criticism. She is the author of Women and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction (2001) as well as articles on interpretation and adaptation theory.
Paul Murray, OP, is professor of spiritual theology at the Angelicum University in Rome and spiritual director at the Convitto Internazionale S. Tommaso. His many publications include T. S. Eliot and Mysticism (1991), The New Wine of Dominican Spirituality: A Drink Called Happiness (2006), I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta (2008), Door into the Sacred: A Meditation on the Hail Mary (2010), and Praying with Confidence: Aquinas on the Lord's Prayer (2010). Murray is also an award-winning poet who has published four volumes including These Black Stars (2003).
Walter Nicgorski is professor in the Program of Liberal Studies, the University of Notre Dame's sixty-year-old Great Books program, and concurrent professor in the department of political [End Page 1] science. His publications include essays on Cicero, liberal and character education, the American founding, Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, and Yves Simon. His articles have appeared in such journals as Political Theory, Interpretation, and The Political Science Reviewer, as well as in various thematic collections of essays. He is a contributor to and coeditor (with Ronald Weber) of An Almost Chosen People: The Moral Aspirations of Americans (1977) and (with Kenneth Deutsch) of Leo Strauss: Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker (1994). He is former chief editor of The Review of Politics (1994-2004), and in the preceding decade he served as book review editor.
Robert Di Pede completed doctoral work in philosophical theology at the University of Edinburgh in 2010 under the supervision of Nicholas Adams and Fergus Kerr, OP. His thesis examined philosophical themes in Luigi Giussani's bibliography. He received an appointment to the Newman Centre of McGill University in 2005, where he was the organizer of colloquia and an international symposium inspired by Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Address (2006). He is currently a founding member of The Francis de Sales Centre at Mary, Mother of God School in Toronto, a tradition-based high school offering a classical education to students of all economic backgrounds.
David Pitt is assistant professor of liturgical and sacramental theology at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa. He holds a PhD in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and an MA in liturgical music from St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. His publications tend to concern the fields of liturgical history, the sacraments, and liturgical music.
Yves R. Simon (1903-61) is widely recognized as one of the great teachers and philosophers of our time. He was educated at the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique of Paris. After teaching for eight years at Lille and Paris he was invited to join the philosophy faculty [End Page 166] at the University of Notre Dame (1938-48). Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins then appointed Simon to the graduate Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1948-61). He wrote some twenty books and scores of articles on a great variety of philosophical topics. His works in include Philosophy of Democratic Government; Metaphysics of Knowledge; The Road to Vichy, 1918-1938; The Tradition of Natural Law; and the Great Dialogue of Nature and Space. A one-hundred-page Yves Simon bibliography can be found in Acquaintance with the Absolute: The Philosophy of Yves R. Simon, Essays and Bibliography, edited by Anthony O. Simon (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998). Volume I of his massive correspondence with Jacques Maritain has just been published in France as Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon Correpondance, 1927-1940. The University of Notre Dame Press published Yves R. Simon, The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought, in 2009. [End Page 167]
