The Good, the Bad, and the Sublime: the Mystical Functions of Poetry in Dante

About the speaker:

Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture, a Great Books program offering a program of study in the Catholic intellectual tradition to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He holds appointments as Instructor at both St. Gregory the Great Seminary and the University Nebraska-Lincoln in the Humanities. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classical Philology. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife and five children.