Michael D. Hurley

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Michael D. Hurley
Nationality British
Education University of Cambridge; University of St Andrews; Stonyhurst College
Website michaeldhurley.com

Michael D. Hurley (born 1976) is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Cambridge, [1] and a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. [2] He was educated at the universities of Cambridge and St Andrews, and at Stonyhurst College. [3] Hurley has published books and articles on literary form and style, and on the interrelations of literature, philosophy and theology. [4] [5] Concurrent with his academic position at Cambridge, he has been awarded visiting positions at Harvard and All Souls College, Oxford. [6] Hurley is co-editor of The Hopkins Quarterly, a journal of critical, scholarly and appreciative responses to the lives and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins and his circle. [7] He is also Chairman of The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst, [8] and frequently gives talks and public lectures on the philosophical and theological questions posed by art and literature. [9] [10] [11] [12] In 2022, Hurley was profiled by the Catholic Herald as one of the “UK Catholic leaders of today”. [13]

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  7. "Board". The Hopkins Quarterly. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  8. "Christian Heritage Centre People". Companies House . Retrieved March 19, 2019.
  9. University of Cambridge (April 10, 2017). "Dr Michael Hurley Lectures On 'Creating Faith: John Henry Newman's Literary Logic', Brompton Oratory, 25 April 2017" . Retrieved March 19, 2019.
  10. "Angelic Poetry International Conference" . Retrieved March 19, 2019.
  11. St Edmund's College, Cambridge. "VHI Lecture - Literature & Dis/Agreement" . Retrieved March 19, 2019.
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