Mark Bosco

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Mark Bosco, S.J.
Alma mater Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (M.Div.)
Graduate Theological Union (Ph.D.)
OccupationProfessor, university administrator
Employer Georgetown University

Mark Bosco, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and a professor. His areas of research and specialization are in the fields of 20th-Century American and British Literature, the Roman Catholic literary tradition, aesthetics, art, and the religious imagination. He is an authority on the works of Flannery O'Connor and Graham Greene.

Bosco is widely published; his most recent book is Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination, published by Oxford University Press. He has also given numerous invited lectures and talks.

Bosco earned his Ph.D. from Graduate Theological Union in 2003, his M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology in 1998.

Prior to August 2017, he was Professor of Theology and English studies at Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, as well as the former Interim Director of the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. He was also the Director of Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. Bosco was the founder and former director of the Catholic Studies Minor Program.

In 2017, Bosco was appointed the Vice President for Mission and Ministry at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In addition to leading the campus ministry, he is also a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of English. [1] [2]

Bosco was co-writer and co-director with Elizabeth Coffman of the 2019 documentary film Flannery , about Flannery O'Connor. [3]

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References

  1. DeGioia, John J. (March 16, 2017). "Announcing Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., Ph.D., as Vice President for Mission and Ministry". Georgetown University. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  2. "Georgetown's New Mission and Ministry VP Embraces Interreligious Dialogue". Georgetown University. March 16, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  3. Matt Hanson, "The Enduring Chill of Flannery O'Connor", The American Interest (August 2, 2020)