Book
Articles
Edited volumes and special issues
Select presentations
Podcasts & miscellany
Courses Taught
- Sacramental Realism: Gertrud von le Fort and German Catholic Literature in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, 1924–46 (Leeds: Maney, 2007).
Articles
- “Why Theodor Haecker Spoke to the White Rose,” edited by Alexandra Lloyd and Karolina Watroba. Special issue, Oxford German Studies, “The White Rose and the uses of Culture” 52, no. 1 (2023): 105-119.
- “Inward Obedience, St. Philip Neri, and Goethe’s Faust. Eine Tragödie." Oxford German Studies 50.3 (2021): 333-49.
- The 'Golden-Hearted' Catholic Imagination of Gertrud von le Fort." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 23:2 (2020): 125-39.
- "The Splendor of Hope in Days of Evil: Imagined Sanctity and the Subsistence of Catholic Literature in the Third Reich." Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly. Fall (2019).
- "Beyond Reception: Understanding Theodor Haecker's Kierkegaardian Authorship in the Third Reich." Journal for Philosophy and Theology 80.4-5 (2019): 307-25.
- “On Dark Nights in Dark Times: Catholic Inner Exile Writing in Hitler’s Germany,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 22.3 (2019): 42-68.
- “A Good Laugh Is Hard to Find: From Destructive Satire to Sacramental Humor in Evelyn Waugh’s Helena.” Christianity and Literature 67.2 (2018): 312-31.
- “Word Creatures: Theodor Haecker and Walter Benjamin between Geschwätz and Pure Language in the Late Weimar Republic.” Forthcoming, New German Critique no. 133, 45.1 (2018): 23-47.
- “Beyond Exile and Inner Emigration: Rereading Max Horkheimer on Theodor Haecker’s Der Christ und die Geschichte (1935).” The German Quarterly, 90.2 (spring 2017): 157-74.
- “The Reluctant Satirist: Theodor Haecker and the Dizzying Swindle of Nazism.” Oxford German Studies, 46.1 (winter 2017): 42-57.
- “Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means (1963) at the Limits of the Catholic Novel.” Religion and Literature 47.2 (summer 2015): 1-24.
- “Böll’s War: Catholic Inner Emigration, Apocalyptic Dystopia and Stunde Null.” German Life and Letters 67.3 (2014): 1468-83.
- “A Literature of Substitution: Vicarious Sacrifice in the Writings of Gertrud von le Fort,” German Life and Letters 53 (2000): 178–200.
Edited volumes and special issues
- Satires of Dehumanization, 1918-45. Themed issue of Oxford German Studies 46.1 (2017). Co-edited with Paola Mayer and Ruediger Mueller.
Select presentations
- “Humor and Human Personhood in Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair,” De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, November 2-4, 2023
- “The Name of the Rose Revisited: You’re Not That Funny, Umberto Eco,” Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, October 27-29, 2023.
- "Reading Newman in the Third Reich: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the White Rose Student Resistance," Collegium Institute, Annual Newman Lecture, 2023.
- “This Created Live: The Credibility of Goodness in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer.” De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference, University of Notre Dame, November 2022. Starts 41:40 mins.
- “Cruciform Humor in Augustine’s Confessions: The Conversion of Victorinus,” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, Villanova University, October 21-23, 2022.
- "What Are You Laughing At? Humanizing Humor in the Age of Snark," Villanova University, Department of Humanities Faith & Reason lecture, 2021.
- "The Anxiety of Influence in Goethe's Faust." International Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), Edinburgh, July 2019.
- “Veiled Forms between Satire and Sacrament: Martin Mosebach’s Post-Secular Catholic Fiction.” Religious Cultures Network Panel, German Studies Association, Atlanta, October 2017.
- "Requisitioning Luther in the German Catholic Literary Inner Emigration, 1933-45," Conference on Christianity and Literature panel, MLA, Philadelphia, January 2017.
- “The Blackbird and the Hunchback: The Necessity of Kierkegaard in the Theodor Haecker’s Catholic Critique of National Socialism.” Paper presented at conference on “Kierkegaard, Augustine, and the Catholic Tradition,” Villanova University, October 2016.
- “Metaphysics and the Responsibilities of History after 1933: Horkheimer Reads Haecker.” Panel on “Catholic Intellectual Life in Empire, Democracy, and Dictatorship,” German Studies Association, October 2015.
- “Europe Imagined in the German Catholic Inner Emigration, 1933-45.” Conference, “Imagining Europe: Cultural Models of European Identity, 1814-2014,” University of Bristol, UK, July 2015.
- “The Fragile Family in the Modern Myth of Faust.” Presentation to the Graduate Seminar, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, Washington, D.C., November 2014.
- “Captive Heart: Catholics in the Third Reich and the Anxiety of Persecution.” Catholic Intellectual Tradition series, Villanova University, October 2014.
- “A Good Man Is Hard to Describe: And Other Reasons Why It’s Hard to Write a Catholic Novel.” Catholic Imagination series, Villanova University, October 2013.
Podcasts & miscellany
- "The Golden-Hearted Imagination of Gertrud von le Fort," Deep Down Things podcast, November 2021.
- "Love and Do As You Will: Why Theodor Haecker Spoke to the White Rose." Digital symposium of the White Rose Project, Oxford University, 2020
Courses Taught
- Catholic Novel: Faith and Fiction
- Modern Myths: Fausts and Frankensteins
- Fact and Fiction: Representing Reality in World Fiction
- Human Person
- Epiphanies of Beauty, Core Writing Seminar
- Beauty, Core Writing Seminar
- Augustine and Culture Seminar, Moderns and Ancients
- Augustine and Culture Seminar: Truth and Purpose Learning Community, Modern and Ancients
- The True (Honors Augustine and Culture Seminar)
- Reading German (graduate)