About Ignatius Critical Editions
Because postermodernism can be monstrous (but their tradition was divine)
Editors & Essayists
Ignatius Critical Editions feature the editorial and critical work of a number of great scholarly commentators. You can see a few selections from their work by clicking here.
Below are a few selected to give you a general idea of the breadth of knowledge the series is glad to feature, and that readers of the series will be able to draw upon. A complete list of each book's critical contributors is available on the book's detail page.
Dale Ahlquist
Dale Ahlquist is president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, publisher and editor of Gilbert magazine, and the author of six books, including Knight of the Holy Ghost: A Short History of G. K. Chesterton. He has edited fifteen books of Chesterton's writings. He is the founder of the Chesterton Schools Network, which includes over 60 schools in five countries.
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Robert Asch
Robert Asch is the editor of the Saint Austin Press and coeditor of the St. Austin Review. His books include Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose (Saint Austin) and The Romantic Poets, volume I (Ignatius Press). He lives in Preston, England, with his wife and children.
Raimund Borgmeier
Raimund Borgmeier is Emeritus Professor of English literature at the University of Giessen, Germany. He has worked and published on Shakespeare, the poetry of the eighteenth century and the Romantic movement, and Victorian and contemporary fiction (including science fiction and crime fiction). Several times, he was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, both in Madison and Milwaukee.
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Michael G. Brennan
Michael G. Brennan has taught Renaissance literature and Shakespeare at the School of English, University of Leeds, since 1984 and is currently Professor of Renaissance Studies there. His most recent books include The Sidneys of Penshurst and the Monarchy, 1500-1700 (Ashgate, 2006) and a study of early modern English travellers on the continent, The Origins of the Grand Tour (The Hakluyt Society, 2004).
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Crystal Downing
Crystal Downing received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is Distinguished Professor of English and Film Studies at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. She has published on a wide variety of literary topics, from Shakespeare to the Brontës, and has won both national and international awards for her essays on film. Her three books explore the relationship between Christianity and poststructuralism: Writing Performances (2004); How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith (2006); and Changing Signs of Truth (2012).
Anthony Esolen
Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. His work includes the Modern Library translations of Dante's Divine Comedy (Random House), Ironies of Faith: The Deep Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature (ISI Books), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery).
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Anthony Esolen
Anthony Esolen is a professor of English at Providence College. His work includes the Modern Library translations of Dante's Divine Comedy (Random House), Ironies of Faith: The Deep Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature (ISI Books), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery).
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Robert C. Evans
Robert C. Evans is the I. B. Young Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is widely published and is especially interested in close reading and critical pluralism. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Folger, Newberry, and Huntington Libraries, among others.
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Amy Fahey
Amy Fahey holds a doctorate in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.Phil. in medieval literature from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She has taught literature courses at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and Christendom College.
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Gene Fendt
Gene Fendt has been teaching philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, for over twenty years. His publications include Is Hamlet a Christian Drama? An Essay on a Question in Kierkegaard (Marquette University Press) and Love Song for the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of Comedy (Catholic University of America Press).
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James E. Hartley
James E. Hartley is professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches Macroeconomic Theory, Money and Banking, and Principles of Economics, among other economics courses. Outside the Economics Department, he has also taught multiple courses using the Great Books, including Western Civilization: An Introduction through the Great 590, The Romantic Poets II Books, Leadership and the Liberal Arts, Is Business Moral? (developed with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities), Reflections on War, C. S. Lewis, and numerous tutorials and reading groups on the Western Canon.
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C. B. Lipscombe, MD
C. B. Lipscombe, MD, is a general surgery resident at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She studied medicine at the Drexel University College of Medicine and is a graduate in biochemistry of the University of Delaware, where she received the James A. Moore Award for Organic Chemistry and the Wallace H. McGurdy, Jr. Prize in Analytical Chemistry. Her current research explores the efficacy of blood transfusions in gastrointestinal hemorrhages.
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Trevor Lipscombe
Trevor Lipscombe is the director of The Catholic University of America Press. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has taught at Oxford, the City University of New York, and Johns Hopkins University. Lipscombe is the author of Quick(er) Calculations (Oxford University Press, 2021), The Physics of Rugby (Nottingham University Press, 2009), and is coauthor, with Alice Calaprice, of Albert Einstein: A Biography (Greenwood, 2005). He edited Saint John Henry Newman's novel Loss and Gain for the Ignatius Critical Editions (2012).
Louis Markos
Louis Markos is professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University, and he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. His twenty-five books include Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet; Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition; Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age; Literature: A Student's Guide; From Achilles to Christ; and The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes.
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Regis Martin
Regis Martin is professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where, in addition to courses on Christ and the Church, he teaches such landmarks of literature as the works of Dante, Eliot, and Flannery O'Connor. The author of several books, including The Last Things and The Suffering of Love, he is married and the father of many children.
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Russell Elliott Murphy
Russell Elliott Murphy is professor emeritus with the Department of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Among his many publications are Structure and Meaning, Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot, The Meaning of Byzantium in the Poetry and Prose of W. B. Yeats, and Spent, a novel. Since 1987, he has been the editor and publisher of the Yeats Eliot Review.
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Douglas Lane Patey
Douglas Lane Patey is Sophia Smith Professor of English at Smith College, where he teaches courses both in English and the history of science. He has written books on the history of probability, concepts of addiction, and the novels of Evelyn Waugh, as well as articles on John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the history of divisions between "art" and "science".
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Joseph Pearce
JOSEPH PEARCE is the acclaimed author of numerous literary studies, including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare, and Shakespeare on Love, as well as popular biographies of Oscar Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is the general editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series.
Mary Reichardt
Mary Reichardt is Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received a PhD in literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has published eight books, including Catholic Women Writers (Greenwood, 2001), Exploring Catholic Literature (Sheed and Ward / Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), the two-volume Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature (Greenwood, 2004), and Between Human and Divine: The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature (Catholic University of America Press, 2010).
Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Geoffrey M. Vaughan is professor and chair in the department of political science at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of Behemoth Teaches Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Political Education (Lexington Books, 2002) and was most recently editor of Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers (CUA Press, 2018). He has written for National Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Toronto Globe and Mail, among others.
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Jeffrey Dirk Wilson
Jeffrey Dirk Wilson is research associate professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He previously taught at Mount Saint Mary's University. Wilson holds degrees from Bowdoin College, Union Theological Seminary (New York), Oxford University, and The Catholic University of America. His areas of specialization are classical metaphysics, ancient Greek philosophy, and political thought. He has published in Clio, The International Journal of Philosophy, Philotheos, and The Review of Metaphysics. He is the editor of Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom (CUA Press, 2021). He lives and works on a family farm.
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R. V. Young
R. V. Young is Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He is co-founder of the John Donne Journal and was co-editor for 25 years. In 2008 he became the editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. His bilingual edition of Justus Lipsius' Concerning Constancy is forthcoming from Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. In addition to scholarly books and articles, he has also contributed to journals such as First Things, National Review, The Weekly Standard, the St. Austin Review, and Touchstone, of which he is a contributing editor.
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About the Series
The Ignatius Critical Editions represent a tradition-oriented alternative to popular textbook series such as the Norton Critical Editions or Oxford World Classics, and are designed to concentrate on traditional readings of the Classics of world literature. While many modern critical editions have succumbed to the fads of modernism and postmodernism, this series will concentrate on tradition-oriented criticism of these great works.
Edited by acclaimed literary biographer Joseph Pearce, the Ignatius Critical Editions will ensure that traditional moral readings of the works are given prominence, instead of the feminist or deconstructionist readings that often proliferate in other series of 'critical editions'. As such, they represent a genuine extension of consumer choice, enabling educators, students, and lovers of good literature to buy editions of classic literary works without having to 'buy into' the ideologies of secular fundamentalism.
The series is ideal for anyone wishing to understand the great works of Western civilization, enabling the modern reader to enjoy these classics in the company of some of the finest literature professors alive today.