“Unifying Knowledge for a Changing Culture.” Review of
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, ed. and trans.
Stephen A. Barney, W. J. Lewis, J. A. Beach, and Oliver
Berghof.
International Catholic History Discussion List (May 2007)
“Chaucer, Geoffrey”; “Dante Alighieri”; “Langland, William”;
“Péguy, Charles.” Encyclopedia of Christian
Literature. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, forthcoming in
2007.
“Greek Tragedies: From Myths to Sacraments?” Logos: A
Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 9/3 (Summer 2006):
45-71.
“The Laity and Catholic Action in John Courtney Murray’s Church of
the Future.” In Vatican II Forty Years Later, edited
by William Madges, 55-77. College Theology Society Annual
Volume 51. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006.
Review of Theological Aesthetics: A Reader, ed. Gesa
Elsbeth Thiessen. Horizons: The Journal of the College
Theology Society 33/1 (Spring 2006): 156-58.
Conference Papers
“Discarded Woman, Cherished Icon: Peace and Christlike
Silence in Browning’s Duchess.” Conference on Christianity
and Literature annual meeting, Weston, MA, October 2007.
"Public Icons, Private Selves: Byzantine Origins of a
Contemporary Problematic." College Theology Society
convention, Dayton, OH, June 2007.
“Reacting to the Past’ in an Interreligious Present.”
Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion annual meeting,
Baltimore, MD, March 2007.
"The Harrowing of Hell in Piers Plowman: A
Christological Struggle against Violence.” Conference on
Christianity and Literature annual meeting. St. Francis
College, Brooklyn, NY. 21 Oct. 2006.
"Imagining Hell: Infernal Aesthetics and the Medieval Struggle
for a Virtuous Society." College Theology Society
convention. Regis University, Denver, CO. 2 Jun.
2006.
"Medieval Damnation or Modern Tragedy? Heuristic
Frameworks for Christian Alienation." American Academy of
Religion annual meeting. The Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys,
Baltimore, MD. 16 Mar. 2006.
“Dionysius Crucified: On the Feasibility of Tragic
Christ-Figures.” Conference on Christianity and Literature
annual meeting. Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ. 22 Oct.
2005.
“From Dante’s Inferno to Hopkins’s ‘Heraclitean Fire’:
A Balthasarian Reading.” National Endowment for the
Humanities summer seminar, “Religious Experience and English
Poetry, 1633-1985.” University of Notre Dame, South
Bend, IN. 7 Jul. 2005.
“Catholic Action in John Courtney Murray’s Theology of
History.” College Theology Society convention. Spring
Hill College, Mobile, AL. 3 Jun. 2005.
“Symbolic Vision and Human Freedom in the Mystical Theology of
Karl Rahner.” American Academy of Religion annual
meeting. The Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ. 4
Mar. 2005.
“Von Balthasar and the Academic Study of Religion and Literature
in the Near Future.” College Theology Society
convention. The Catholic University of America, Washington,
DC. 4 Jun. 2004.
“Hindu and Buddhist Contributions to the Trinitarian Theology of
Raimundo Panikkar.” American Academy of Religion annual
meeting. The Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys, Baltimore,
MD. 19 Mar. 2004.
“From Poetry to Eschatology: Von Balthasar’s Readings of Dante
and Péguy and the End of History.” Conference on Christianity
and Literature annual meeting. State University of New York,
Farmingdale, NY. 18 Oct. 2003.
“The Inter-Religious Hermeneutics of Raimundo Panikkar and
Francis Clooney.” American Academy of Religion annual
meeting. The Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys, Baltimore,
MD. 14 Mar. 2002.
“Ransoming Anselm: Religious Narrative, Theory, and Expiatory
Christology.” College Theology Society convention.
University of Portland, Portland, OR. 2 Jun. 2001.
“Poets and Seers: A Test Case for Rahner’s Theology of the
Symbol.” College Theology Society convention. Villanova
University, Villanova, PA. 4 Jun. 2000.
“The Copycat Mystic: Image and Imitation in Gregory of
Nyssa.” American Academy of Religion annual meeting.
The Chadds Ford Ramada Inn, Glen Mills, PA. 23 Mar. 2000.