Biography
Thomas Graff is the Academic Officer of the Von Hügel Institute. His academic formation includes a BA in Philosophy & Theology and Italian Literature (Notre Dame); an MA in Italian Studies (Notre Dame); an MPhil in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge, distinction), and a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies (Cambridge), under the supervision of Dr Rowan Williams and Dr Giles Waller. Thomas has taught in multiple prison-based educational contexts, including HMP Whitemoor (March, UK) and Westville Correctional Facility (Indiana, US), and has supervised Papers B10 (Philosophy of Religion), B13 (Theology and Literature), and C11 (Metaphysics).
He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame in England and Director of Studies in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, where he is also a Bye-Fellow.
Research
Christian Theology, Theology and Literature, Prison-Based Education
Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Primo Levi, Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publications
- 'Notes on Intermedial Essayism: Pirandello's Six Characters as Adapted by Patrick Vassel'. Pirandello Studies 41 (2021): 106–25.
- 'Predestination in Dante’s Commedia in Light of Augustine'. Literature and Theology 35, no. 2 (June 2021): 178–97. doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fraa033
- 'In societatem filii eius: Predestination in/as Friendship with God in Thomas Aquinas'. Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 63, no. 1 (2021): 66–85. doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2021-0004
- 'Providence in Ordinary: On Human Language in Giambattista Vico’s The New Science'. Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee: Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia 2 (2020): 133–49. 10.53129/gcsi_02-2020-08
- 'Virgil the Theologian'. Le Tre Corone: Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio 7 (2020): 119–32. 10.19272/202012101007
Book Reviews
- Review of The Judgment of Love: An Investigation of Salvific Judgment in Christian Eschatology, by James M. Matarazzo Jr. Religion and the Arts 25, no. 5 (December 2021): 689–92. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02505008
- Review of Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System: A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice, by Andrew Skotnicki. Reviews in Religion & Theology 27, no. 3 (July 2020): 413–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rirt.13863.
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