Two Prominent Catholic Scholars Join DePaul
September 11, 2007
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Two renowned Catholic scholars, Peter Casarella and Farrell O'Gorman, have joined the ranks of DePaul faculty. Casarella comes to DePaul from the Catholic University of America, where he was associate professor of systematic theology and served as director of the university's Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies. The Catholic studies scholar has written extensively on topics related to his expertise, including medieval Christian Neo-Platonism, contemporary theological aesthetics. St. Bonaventure's Trinitarian theology of creation, the idea of emergence in contemporary physics and the Hispanic/Latino presence in the American Catholic Church. He earned a doctoral degree in religious studies from Yale University in 1992. Before coming to DePaul, O'Gorman was an assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is an expert on American and Anglo-Irish literature, specifically that of Flannery O'Connor. He received his doctoral degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and is the author of the critically recognized novel, "Awaiting Orders" (Idylls Press, 2006). The book has been selected for the Loyola Press collection "Best Catholic Writing 2007."
