Events
The Christian Imagination: Reflections on Flannery O'Connor, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis
A lecture by Dr. Robert Royal
When:
March 9, 2019 | 5:00 PM CST
Chapter:
University of Texas, Austin
Location:
TBA
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Robert Royal is the founder and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. and editorinchief of “The Catholic Thing” (www.thecatholicthing.org). He writes and speak on questions of ethics, culture, religion, and politics, has appeared frequently on EWTN as a special commentator on Church matters, various television and radio stations around the United States, and around the world. His most recent book is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the 20th Century (Ignatius 2015).
Dr. Royal holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Catholic University of America. He has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island College, and The Catholic University of America. He received fellowships to study in Italy from the Renaissance Society of American (1977) and as a Fulbright scholar (1978). From 1980 to 1982, he served as editorinchief of Prospect magazine in Princeton, New Jersey.