ABOUT ME
Michael has a scholarly interest in the English Novel from
Jane Austen to Margaret Atwood.
This period includes the transition from Classicism, to Romanticism, to Modernism and its Posts.
One characteristic of this literary novel is the relationship between the literature of ideas and the history of ideas.
In Philosophy, consider a parallel in the transition from Kant, to Hegel, to Nietzsche, to Derrida.
In Theology, consider a parallel in the transition from Deism, to Theism, to Atheism, to Agnosticism.
To varying degrees, each author of a literary novel is historicized and historicizing. They interact with, and occasionally react against, the spirit of their age.
Essentially, readers are looking at the author looking.
Sometimes readers cannot see what the author sees.
Sometimes authors cannot see what the reader sees.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Literature and Religion
Franciscanism
Jewish and Christian Relations
Hawaiian History
EDUCATION
1983-1986 BA, 1988-1989 MLitt
University of New England
1986-1989 BTh
Sydney College of Divinity, St Paul's Seminary
1990-1992 PhD
University of Western Australia