“It is my conviction that the incarnational and sacramental dimensions of Catholic Christianity are the greatest natural assets of a writer.” 
-Walker Percy

In this year’s Grad Fellows Colloquia, we will be looking at Catholic literature in the modern world. The goal will be to explore some themes related to questions about the arts, Catholic imagination, depictions of sin and grace, and narrative or poetic ways of doing theology. We will read a variety of short stories, essays, and poems by Catholic authors.

Schedule for this Academic Year:

September 24: Flannery O’Connor: A Canonical presentation of Catholic Literature

October 22: Non-Western Catholic Literature: Finding Christ in Endo’s Japan

November 19: Beyond Narrative. Poetic Expressions of Catholic Literature: Gerard M. Hopkins, Claude McKay, Denise Levertov, Mary Karr, Elizabeth Acevedo

January 21: The Catholic Novel: Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory

February 18: Latin American Experience and the Essay as Art Form, excerpts from Richard Rodriguez’s Darling

March 18: The French Context: Charles Peguy and Simone Weil

April 22: Catholic Literature as Theology: T.S. Eliot’s The Four Quartets

May 20: Comic Relief: Walker Percy, G.K. Chesterton, & Flannery O’Connor

Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm

When: Thursdays

Where: via Zoom

Registration: Click below to RSVP and receive the readings.