Professor Paul Contino Lecture, 10 November 2022
Professor Paul Contino
Professor Paul Contino (Pepperdine University) will speak on:
“Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism”
When: Thursday, November 10th at 3 PM
Where: Via Zoom (Meeting ID: 929 4909 4616 Passcode: 582419)
This Lecture is part of Dublin City University’s Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Research Seminars.
Biography
Paul J. Contino is Professor of Great Books at Pepperdine University. He received his
Ph.D. in English Literature from Notre Dame, after which taught for twelve years at Christ
College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University. He has served at Pepperdine since 2002,
and has been twice granted their Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. Along with
his wife Professor Mary Mullins, he has co-edited the journal Christianity and Literature. In
2001 he co-edited and introduced Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith (Northwestern UP).
He has published a number of essays on Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as essays on Zhuangzi,
Dante Alighieri, and Jane Austen as well as a number of contemporary Catholic authors. His
book Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: 大发体育在线_大发体育-投注|官网ing Christ among the Karamazovs (Cascade,
Wipf and Stock, 2020) will soon be published in Russian translation (Trans. Irina Burova,
Academic Studies Press 2022). Last year, it was named a finalist for both the Lilly Fellows and
the Conference on Christianity and Literature book awards.
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