University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Thomistic Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents a lecture by Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies titled “Dante Alighieri: A Thomist Poet?”

Tuesday, October 4

6:30 PM

Carolina Union Room 3201

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P. is an Assistant Professor of Latin and Pastoral Studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He specializes in the intersection between theology and literature in the Middle Ages, and has lately commented on Dante's Purgatorio and the Middle English Pearl for various Thomistic Institute projects. He is also the Rome Director for the Thomistic Institute's semester abroad program. He completed his Master's degree in English Literature at the University of Toronto, his doctoral work in English Literature at the University of Oxford, and he received a postdoctoral License in Mediaeval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.