Faculty Colloquium with Bernard McGinn on In the Eagle’s Wake

David Albertson is an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Southern California and director of The Nova Forum. He is the author most recently of The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure.

Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the Divinity School. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of English. His most recent scholarly books include his Gilson Lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, L’image vulnérable: Sur l’image de Dieu chez S. Augustin (Presses Universitaires de France, 2021), Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2023), Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (Chicago UP, 2023), which consists of his Gifford Lectures given at Glasgow University, Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul (Columbia UP, 2024), and his edition, The Bible and Western Christian Literature, vol. 5 (T. and T. Clark, 2024). His poetry is partly collected in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame UP, 2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame UP, 2018). Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood appeared with Paul Dry Books in 2024.

Erin Galgay Walsh is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She teaches courses on a variety of themes surrounding biblical literature, the history of Christianity, and the ongoing role of biblical interpretation within the modern world. Her research focuses on biblical interpretation, asceticism, and religious literature in the late antique and early medieval world. She has published articles and chapters within edited volumes as well as translations of late antique Christian poetry composed in classical Syriac. Currently, she is working on a book project examining the role of biblical women and female figures in the writings of Narsai of Nisibis, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos.