Biography
University of Cambridge
- PhD in Theology and Religious Studies. 'Dante, Augustine, and the Body of Christ in the Commedia'. Supervisor: Rowan Williams; Giles Waller
- MPhil in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion. 'Universalism in Augustine and Hans Urs von Balthasar'
University of Notre Dame
- MA in Italian Studies. 'A Rhetoric of Suspension: Rethinking Salvation in the Commedia'
- BA in Philosophy & Theology and in Italian Studies. 'A Grammar of Certainty: Newman and Wittgenstein on Rationality & Religious Belief'
Research
Systematic Theology Christology; soteriology
Religion and Literature Dante's theology; tragedy
Public Humanities prison-based education, critical pedagogy
Publications
Key publications:
Chapter in Edited Volume
- 'Augustine at the Heart of Dante's Poetics'. In The Call of Literature. Volume 6. Routledge, 2023 (forthcoming).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- 'Notes on Intermedial Essayism: Pirandello's Six Characters as Adapted by Patrick Vassel'. Pirandello Studies 41 (2021): 106–25.
- 'Predestination in Dante’s Commedia in Light of Augustine'. Literature and Theology 35, no. 2 (June 2021): 178–97. doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fraa033
- 'In societatem filii eius: Predestination in/as Friendship with God in Thomas Aquinas'. Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 63, no. 1 (2021): 66–85. doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2021-0004
- 'Providence in Ordinary: On Human Language in Giambattista Vico’s The New Science'. Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee: Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia 2 (2020): 133–49. 10.53129/gcsi_02-2020-08
- 'Virgil the Theologian'. Le Tre Corone: Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio 7 (2020): 119–32. 10.19272/202012101007
Book Reviews
- Review of The Judgment of Love: An Investigation of Salvific Judgment in Christian Eschatology, by James M. Matarazzo Jr. Religion and the Arts 25, no. 5 (December 2021): 689–92. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02505008
- Review of Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System: A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice, by Andrew Skotnicki. Reviews in Religion & Theology 27, no. 3 (July 2020): 413–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rirt.13863.
Other publications:
Teaching and Supervisions
Teaching:
University of Cambridge
- God, Freedom and the Soul (B10)
- Theology and Literature (B13)
- Truth, God and Metaphysics (C11)
- Italian Literature Survey
University of Notre Dame in England
- Between Religion and Literature: Meaning, Vulnerability, and Human Existence
HM Prison Whitemoor
- Literature and Justice: Dante's Divine Comedy
Other Professional Activities
Conference Papers
- Dante’s Triadic Injustice: A Meta-Textual Reading of Damnation in the Commedia. 'Dante Decolonizer: Poet of Justice; Epistemic Plurality & the Ethical Imagination', Northeast MLA Convention, Niagara Falls, New York, 23–26.3.23
- Suspended Love: Dante’s Limbo, Augustine’s Ontology. 'Dante Futures: New Voices in the UK and Ireland' hosted by Society for Italian Studies, Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures, University College Cork, Ireland, 11–12.11.2
- Christ the Non-Word: Holy Saturday and the Limits of Soteriology in Hans Urs von Balthasar. 'Scripture & Theology 2022: The Diversity of Hermeneutical Approaches', EuARe, Bologna, Italy, 20-23.6.22
- Dante’s Divination: Authorship as Theology in the Commedia. Research Seminar, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College London, 17.10.21
