University of Galway

A lecture by Dr. Julia Meszaros (St. Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth)

Tuesday, March 18

6:00 PM

Joseph Larmor Theatre (Arts & Science Building/Concourse)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:
Julia Meszaros (DPhil, Oxon) is a lecturer in Systematic Theology with a background in theological anthropology. She received her DPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford in 2012 and then spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). In her monograph Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch (OUP, 2016), she compared different accounts of how love affects the formation of the human person and has continued this work in the context of articles for journals including New Blackfriars and Philosophy and Theology.

She is also interested in the fruitful interplay between theology and literature and, together with Bonnie Lander Johnson at Cambridge, edits Catholic Women Writers, CUA press’s first series of fiction. This series recovers the works of the forgotten members of the Catholic Literary Revival by republishing them with long introductions to the author and her work. Julia has a particular interest in the theologically rich writings of the English mystic Caryll Houselander, and has published widely on her and others.