Zach Czaia, B.A. 2009
"After my first visit to UD in the spring of 2005, I came upon my friend and colleague, Alban Forcione, surely one of the five or fewer greatest scholars of Cervantes alive, [and told him] that we had wasted our lives teaching in the Ivy League and that I had found the place at which we could have spent our careers with better effect."
-Robert Hollander
Princeton University Professor of European Literature and French and Italian, Emeritus.
With respect to the kind of wisdom that governs human conduct, poetry promotes a grasp of reality superior to other ways of knowing in its combination of immediacy, lucidity, practicality, sensitivity to refinements, capacity to shape the affections, and adequacy to the whole.
This conviction guides literary study at every level of the curriculum pursued at the University of Dallas. The program in literature provides a course of study in those authors who best exemplify the capacity of imagination to grasp truth. Teachers and students seek to learn what the best of the poets understand of nature and human experience.
In this mutual learning enterprise, students and teachers are related as beginning and advanced students of their common masters, the major imaginative writers.
Zach Czaia, B.A. 2009
Vallery Bergez Hrbacek, B.A., English, 2014
Patrick Eichholz, BA, 2006
Joseph Mazza, B.A. English, 2013
Claire Ballor B.A. English, 2015
Nick Wignall, B.A. English, 2011
John Corrales, B.A. English, 2011
Mary Watson, B.A. 2009, M.A. 2010
Hunter Hammett, B.A. English, 2002
Amanda Poulin, B.A. English, 2011
“Adoro Te” is a collaborative effort to seed the National Eucharistic Revival with artistic, theological and philosophical reflections.
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