Who's Who at St Bede's

Fr Thomas G. [Fr Tom] Weinandy is a Capuchin Friar. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from St Fidelis College; M.A. in Systematic Theory from the Washington Theological Union and a Ph.D. in Historical Theology from the University of London (King’s College). He was a Tutor at Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford (1991–93), its Head of House [Warden] (1993–2004) and an Honorary Fellow 2004 until its dissolution in 2008 as well as serving as tutor and lecturer in History and Doctrine in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford. He was Chairman of the Faculty of Theology from 1997 to 1999. While at Oxford he lectured extensively and supervised numerous doctoral theses. He has held academic positions at Georgetown University, Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Loyola College, Baltimore. He entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in 1966, was solemnly professed in 1970, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. Fr Weinandy’s major fields of specialty are History of Christology, especially Patristic, Medieval and Contemporary, History of Trinitarian Theology, History of Soteriology, and Philosophical Notions of God. He has authored and edited more than 15 books and over 40 academic articles. Since 2004 he has been the Executive Director of the Secretariat for Doctrine at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC.

Dr Penelope Cookson, Fellow, Provost penelope.cookson@stbedeshall.org

Penny Cookson was educated at Manchester University and the Institute of Education at the University of London, receiving degrees in Spanish and Latin and subsequently in Educational Administration. Penny also studied Archaeology at Exeter University and Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Her career to date comprises 20 years'' experience in the secondary education sector, the majority of which was at Senior Management level. Subsequently, Penny moved to higher education where she was appointed first Lecturer then Fellow and Academic Administrator at Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford, with overall responsibility for running the Study Abroad programme. She has been affiliated with the Ashmolean Museum and was an officer of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society and Secretary of its Listed Buildings sub-committee until 2008. Penny is now Provost of St Bede''s Hall, Oxford. 

Dr Anne Mouron, Fellow, Member of St Bede''s Board of Management, Director of Studies for English and Convener of Conferences anne.mouron@stbedeshall.org

After a licence ès lettres in English, French and linguistics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, Anne Mouron obtained an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. in English medieval studies at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She is currently involved in research on late medieval religious and devotional texts, one aspect of which is the translation of Latin texts into Middle English and Old French. Anne has taught at Warwick University, the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and from 1994 to 2008 at Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford, where she was a Fellow. 

Dr Alan O''Day, Fellow, Member of St Bede''s Board of Management, US Coordinator and Director of Studies for History and Politics alan.oday@stbedeshall.org

Alan O''Day was formerly Senior Fellow in History and Politics in Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford. He received degrees in Political Science and History from the University of Michigan, Roosevelt University, Northwestern University and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of London (King''s College). He has held Visiting Fellowships at Oxford Colleges and the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, was Senior Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen''s University Belfast, a Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin and a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Durham and Edinburgh. He has authored and edited more than 35 books and over 40 academic articles, been a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

After officer training and sea service in the Royal Navy Justin entered a long career in senior business management, latterly engaging in management e-learning. Retiring early from business he studied the history of art and architecture at the University of Oxford and is a senior manager at the University’s Bodleian Library, where he is editing the Library’s unpublished naval papers created or collected by Samuel Pepys. He researches and frequently writes and speaks on naval history and art history, and is a tutor in naval history and maritime art for Oxford University’s International Programmes. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a member of the Navy Records Society, and Mary Rose Research Fellow, Justin is a consultant to a cultural foundation in Spain, and holds a research PhD position in maritime history at the University of Exeter. 

Sally is currently Lecturer in Modern & Victorian Literature at Balliol College, Oxford. She has taught English at several institutions in the USA including the University of Massachusetts and as Lecturer in Writing, Humanities & Literature at Bowling Green State University and at the University of Toledo, Ohio. She has also held the post of Humanities Lecturer at Owens Community College, Toledo, Ohio, USA. Her book Eye Rhymes was the first book to draw attention to the vast body of art work of American writer, Sylvia Plath. The book toured several literary festivals and was part of a multimedia event at the Royal Festival Hall alongside pop artist Stella Vine and a selection of young poets. Dr Bayley is completing an interdisciplinary study of American space and place, Inhabiting America: From Home to Horizon. The book will trace the conceit of the threshold in American literature and culture from Emily Dickinson to the art and writings of Bob Dylan. 

Elisabeth read English at Oxford University as an undergraduate, and after reading for an MA at Durham returned to Oxford for her D Phil in medieval English on Julian of Norwich. Her monograph, Julian of Norwich: the Influence of Late Medieval Devotional Compilation, was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2008; she has also published an edition of Julian with the International Sacred Literature Trust (2008), and an English adaptation of Paul Mommaers' study of Hadewijch, Hadewijch: Writer, Beguine, Love-Mystic (Leuven: Peeters, 2004). She is currently editing a book of essays on John Gower. Elisabeth has also published articles on the seventeenth-century transmission of Julian, and on medieval drama: her theatre company, Thynke Byggly, stages rarely-performed medieval and renaissance plays. Elisabeth Dutton is Supernumerary Fellow at Worcester College , Oxford : she has taught medieval and Renaissance literature in Oxford and at University College, London, as well as in the Universities of Tirana and Elbasan, Albania.

Emma obtained her first degree in English Literature from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She then gained an MPhil and a DPhil in Eighteenth Century Literature at the University of Oxford (Merton College). Emma has taught extensively at numerous Oxford Colleges and with topics including Medieval Romance; Shakespeare; Milton; English Literature 1642-1740; The Eighteenth-Century Novel; Romantic Literature (1798-1832); and Jane Austen. She currently teaches at the Centre for Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO) where she was awarded a Lectureship in Trinity 2005. Emma has been involved with several International Summer Programmes for Oxford University such as that held at Wycliffe Hall: Jane Austen and the Rise of the Woman Novelist (Summer 2006- Present) and is a tutor and overseas lecturer for Stanford University.

Amanda gained her undergraduate and doctoral degrees at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She specialises in medieval English literature and has particular interests in Chaucer, the love-lyric, comparative literature, and poetics.  She has held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Reading, and has taught at the University of Southampton as well as at numerous Oxford colleges including Balliol, Oriel and St Edmund Hall. Amanda's published work includes The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics (Ashgate, September 2008), and an edition of Tottel's Miscellany, co-edited with Tom MacFaul, is forthcoming from Penguin Classics in 2011. She is currently working on a book on rhyme in the love-lyric 1300-1579. Amanda is a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College. 

Kieron was educated at Tonbridge School, where he later taught briefly, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on Herbert Read and T. S. Eliot. His poems have appeared in magazines including Agenda, Agni, The Dark Horse, The London Magazine, Oxford Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review, The Rialto and The Spectator, and in a short film about his work on BBC1. A selection of his poems appears in the Carcanet anthology Oxford Poets 2007. He was awarded the University of Oxford’s English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize in 2007. He lives in Oxford, where he is a freelance teacher.

Rohini  gained her BA (Hons) in Medieval History at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, US A. At New York University, New York, USA, she went on to obtain a Master of Arts in History, the New York State Certificate in Archival Management and Historical Editing, and the New York State Certificate in Museum Studies. The subject of her Master of Library Science (Hons) from Columbia University, New York, was Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections. Rohini took her Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of Oxford in 1996. (Doctoral thesis: 'The Regula Sancti Benedicti in late Anglo-Saxon England: the manuscripts and their readers'.) Rohini has worked extensively as an Archivist, institutions ranging from New York University Libraries New York, to the Cloisters Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US to the Theology Faculty Library, University of Oxford. She is also a researcher and has lectured on Anglo-Saxon literature and history at the University of Oxford. Rohini has also worked with computer programmers to produce the interactive database, website and a CD Rom for the Fontes Anglo-Saxonici Project.

David is a graduate of the universities of Oxford, London and Nottingham and has degrees in History, and Information Studies.  David maintains an interest in both these fields, serving as a member of the Committee of the Bliss Classification Association and undertaking research in the area of medieval administration, particularly the administration of the medieval church.  His book on the medieval bishops of London was published by the British Academy.  He is currently undertaking research on the organisation of the Province of Canterbury in the twelfth century.

Donal is a graduate of University College Dublin and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He has taught at Rhodes University, the University of Chester, the University of York and the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and reviews editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies. He was a member of the advisory panel for the conference on the British World, held in Bristol in 2007. He has held visiting fellowships at Rhodes University, University College Cork, the University of Trier, and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, at King’s College London. He has published widely on the history of southern Africa, Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth and teaches a variety of courses on British, Irish, imperial and modern European history. Donal was a Fellow in History at Greyfriars Hall and has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Donal is currently Reader in Imperial and Commonwealth History at Oxford Brookes University. 

A Barrister of the Middle Temple, Martin obtained degrees from the University of Oxford (BA Hons Modern History and MA Master of Studies in Historical Research), and from De Montfort University, Leicester, he gained Common Professional Examination in the Law of England and Wales, (Trusts, Tort, Criminal, Constitutional, Land, Contract Law). Martin followed this with a DPhil , ‘John J.Hughes, First Archbishop of New York, and the Atlantic Irish c.1841-1864’, from the University of Oxford. After taking a Graduate Diploma in Law from Oxford Brookes University, Martin took the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law. He has lectured widely on History and Politics in both the US and the UK. Martin has taught at the University of Oxford and for the Oxford Overseas Study Council. 

John Stevenson, M.A., D.Phil. took his degrees at the University of Oxford [Worcester and Nuffield Colleges]. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Lecturer at Oriel College, University of Oxford and subsequently taught at the University of Sheffield before returning to Oxford as Official Fellow in History at Worcester College and later Fellow in History, Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford. At present he is Visiting Fellow at Oriel College. He has written and edited more than 70 books.

John graduated from Leeds University, with a BA in History. After working in Further Education in Yorkshire he came as a mature student to Oriel College, Oxford to work on a D.Phil. on Bishop Richard Fleming, the fifteenth century founder of Lincoln College. He is the author of a book, articles and reviews, and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has taught courses and lectured on many aspects of medieval history, with a particular interest in the church, biography and local studies. He is also interested in the nineteenth century Catholic revival, in church art and architecture, and is well known as a guide to historic churches. 

After receiving bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Father George obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and Jerusalem (with additional studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem). He then received a Doctorate in Sacred Theology, again from the Angelicum, having written his exegetical-theological thesis on Genesis 2,4–3,24. He has been a professor of Scripture, Theology and biblical languages in the major seminaries of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga, the Archdiocese of Sydney and the Episcopal Conference of Oceania in Fiji. Father George has a vast pastoral background, and has given conferences and retreats to laity, religious and priests throughout the world. Father George is focusing his studies in a manner useful for interreligious dialogue. Father George is a member of the Pontifical Right Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy. 

Jonathan graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, with a BA (1st Class) in Philosophy & Theology, subsequently taking an M Phil in Theology at the University of Oxford and a PhD in Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. He is a member of the Aristotelian Society. Jonathan is the author of a number of books, articles and reviews and has taught courses on Reason and Persuasion and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oxford. Jonathan is currently a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. 

RJ's special study areas are Christian Doctrine, Philosophical Theology and Christian Ethics. A PhD Candidate, Theology, University of St. Andrews (UK), he gained his BA in Philosophy (Theology minor), from Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg,MD (USA) and his MA in Theology, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception from the Dominican House of Studies, Washington DC (USA). His PhD dissertation explores the 16th century Controversy de Auxiliis (1582-1607), concerning the reconciliation of human free choice with the efficacy of God’s grace and providential governance. Robert has tutored at St Andrews University in Theology and in Philosophy, and is now Liddon Research Fellow and Acting Director of Studies for Theology at Keble College, Oxford. 

Currently completing a doctorate in Theology (PhD) at Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, Tim gained degrees in English Literature with History of Art (BA) from University of Buckingham, UK and in Romantic Literature (MA) from University of Bristol, UK. Tim also gained a Magister in Theology (summa cum laude) and a Lizentiate in Theology (summa cum laude) from Internationales Theologisches Institut, Austria. Tim has lectured both in the USA and the UK, with appointments including a Lectureship in Dramatic Literature at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, USA and his present position as Lecturer and Academic Tutor in Dogmatic Theology at Blackfriars Hall Studium, Oxford. Tim also lectures and tutors at St Mary’s College, Oscott (Seminary for the Archdiocese of Birmingham, UK). 

Joseph is studying for a D.Phil in Theology at the University of Oxford. He is an Andreas Idreos Scholar, Harris Manchester College. With his thesis entitled 'The Baconian Project: Techne, Telos, and Theos at the Advent of Modernity', his main areas of interest are moral/political theology and history/philosophy of science. Joseph gained an B.S. In Neuroscience from East Carolina University,Greenville, NC, USA followed by a M.T.S. In Theology from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Joseph has taught at Duke University and East Carolina University. He is currently a Graduate Research Assistant at The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. 

Francesca is Professor of Christian Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen. She took her B.A. from Manchester University and her PhD from King''s College, London, in 1988. She has been teaching theology ever since, and has worked at Aberdeen University since 1995. Her most recent books are God is not a Story: Realism Revisited (OUP, 2007) and Art and Intellect in the Philosophy of Etienne Gilson. She has also edited several works, including the Political Memoirs of Aurel Kolnai and The Providence of God: Deus Habet Consilium (Continuum, 2009). 

Johan studied Philosophy, Dutch Language and Literature and Linguistics at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He has been a research fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Leiden, where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy (1998), specialising in metaphysics. Currently he is a senior lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Communication of the University of Central Lancashire and a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London. His research interests include the history of metaphysics, the philosophy of Ernst Bloch in the context of the history of post-Kantian German philosophy and the philosophy of communication. Johan is Chair of the Section for the Philosophy of Communication of the European Communication Research and Education Association, Board Member of the Ernst-Bloch-Gesellschaft (Ludwigshafen) and founding editor of Empedocles – European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication. Previously, he has been a lecturer at the University of Leiden and a visiting lecturer at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. Between 2000 and 2006, Johan worked at the Head Quarters of Royal Dutch Shell, in The Hague and London, in various global and strategic roles.

Ann received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA, a BA Hons (now MA) in English Literature from the University of Oxford, an MA in English and a PhD in Medieval Studies both from the University of Toronto. At the University of Toronto, Ann became Assistant Professor of English, and at the University of York was a lecturer and course director in the Faculty of Arts. Currently, Ann holds positions as Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, York University; Associate Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; and Associate Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. Her research interests include Middle English literature, especially the 14th century and Chaucer, St. Bridget of Sweden and the History of Women's Education.

Dan  is Associate Professor of Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches on Scripture, Theology, the Church Fathers, and Ecumenism. He earned an MA (1994) in New Testament from Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit Michigan, an M.St. (1998) in the Development of Christian Doctrine in the Patristic Period from Oxford University, and a D.Phil (2000) in Theology also from Oxford University. His doctoral dissertation on Cyril of Alexandria’s theology of sanctification and divinization is published by Oxford University Press. 

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is professor of English at the University of Allahabad, India. He is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is The Transfiguring Places (1998). His edited books include The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets(1992), A History of Indian Literature in English (2003), The Last Bungalow: Writings on Allahabad (2007), and The Boatride and Other Poems (2009) by Arun Kolatkar. The Absent Traveller: Prākrit Love Poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla (1991), a volume of translations, has recently been reprinted in Penguin Classics. He is currently working on a translation of Kabir to be published in NYRB Classics. He lives in Allahabad and Dehra Dun.

James H. Murphy, PhD, DLitt, is a graduate of University College Dublin,Trinity College Dublin, the National University of Ireland at Maynooth, and the University of London (Heythrop College). He has taught at All Hallows College and St Patrick''s College, both colleges of Dublin City University, and is currently at DePaul University of Chicago where he is Professor of English. He has been a visiting fellow at Greyfriars Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author or (co-) editor of ten books. His interests include the literature of twentieth century Ireland, the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and the literature and cultural and political history of nineteenth-century Ireland, on which he has written widely.

John is Associate Prof. of Systematic and Dogmatic Theology at Loyola School of Theology. He holds a BA in History from the University of Michigan, a BD from Union Theological College, an MA in Philosophy from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a D. Phil. in Theology from Oxford. From 2000-2004 he was Tutor in Christian Doctrine at Greyfriars Hall. He is the author of 'Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth'.