ABOUT ME
Michael has a scholarly interest in the English Novel from Jane Austen to Margaret Atwood.
This period includes the canonical transition from Classicism to Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and Postmodernism.
One characteristic of these genres of literary novels 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, Nietzsche, and Derrida.
In Theology, consider a parallel in the transition from Deism to Theism, Atheism, and 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.
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