Philip F. O'Mara, Associate Professor of English, received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Notre Dame. Originally a specialist in modern poetry, he teaches courses in Modern Literature, in American Literature, and in the English Novel, and is the convener of the Morning Group on Modernism for the interdisciplinary Society for Values in Higher Education, of which he is an elected Fellow. He has published several articles on modern poetry and fiction. He has also studied and taught classical and medieval literature and religious literature, publishing one book and several articles in these areas, and regularly presenting papers on Dante, Chaucer and other later medieval poets. A published poet, film reviewer and magazine feature writer, he teaches courses in film history and documentary filmmaking as well as survey courses in English Literature and in Chaucer. He has received several postdoctoral grants for study of Greek myth, poetic interpretation, heroism and its opposites in fiction, and Christian literature.
In the summer of 1996 Dr. O'Mara took part in a seminar at Yale University, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, on the Bible as Literature. His research for this seminar was devoted to tragic perception in early Hebrew literary prophecy, especially in the books of Amos, Hosea and Isaiah. |
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