Robert Caro, S.J., professor: B.S., Santa Clara University; M.A., Gonzaga University; S.T.M., Santa Clara University (JSTB); Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle

• Phone: 310-338-2987
• Email: rcaro@lmu.edu

Father Robert Caro's early research and publication demonstrated connections between The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola and the meditative-metaphysical poetry of the late renaissance poet William Alabaster. More recently he has been interested in exploring links between the Ignatian Rules for Discernment of Spirits and characterization in Shakespeare. (See, for example, his article on Othello in Cross Currents [fall 1994] and a note on Macbeth in Notes and Queries [December 2000].) Father Caro regularly teaches Shakespeare and has also taught Bible as Literature, Renaissance Literature, Seventeenth Century Poetry, and Poetry Meditation. He also enjoys teaching a pre-major course in Language of Fiction.

Since 2001 Father Caro has been on a reduced teaching schedule while he serves as Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity.