The Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts is proud of our accomplished faculty's ongoing commitment to scholarship and creativity. Below are the 23 books and 1 set of liner notes published by our faculty in 2022.

View the 2022 faculty publications and creative works booklet

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The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future

Author: Amanda Apgar

Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

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Nightmares & Miracles

Author: Michelle Bitting

Visiting Lecturer in the English Department

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Social Problems & Social Control in Criminal Justice

Co-Author: Stacy Burns

Professor and past chair of Sociology

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Exploring Interfaces

Co-Editor: Mónica Cabrera

Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures - Spanish

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The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss, and the Common Life

Author: Douglas E. Christie

Professor of Theological Studies

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Rethinking Catholic Devotions: Energy, Engagement, Transformation!

Author: Jim Clarke

Senior Lecturer of Theological Studies

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Teach Your Children Well: Essays on the Road to Teaching and Learning

Editor: Theresia de Vroom

Professor of English, Director of the Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture and the Arts, Editor and Founder of the Marymount Institute Press

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Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas

Liner Notes by Theresia de Vroom

Professor of English, Director of the Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture and the Arts, Editor and Founder of the Marymount Institute Press

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City of Dignity: Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles

Author: Fr. Sean T. Dempsey, S.J.

Associate Professor and Chair of History

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The Modern Presidency: Six Debates That Define the Institution

Author: Michael A. Genovese

Professor of Political Science and International Relations, President of Global Policy Institute at LMU, Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, Director of Institute for Leadership Studies

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The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, Sixth Edition

Co-Author: Michael A. Genovese

Professor of Political Science and International Relations, President of Global Policy Institute at LMU, Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, Director of Institute for Leadership Studies

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Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World 

Co-Author: Brad E. Stone

Professor of Philosophy and BCLA Associate Dean

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Thousands and Thousands of Lovers: Sense of Community Among the Nuns of Helfta

Author: Anna Harrison

Professor of Theological Studies

 

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The Ethics of Abortion: Women's Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice

Author: Christopher Kaczor 

Chair, Department of Philosophy

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Communist Poland: A Jewish Woman's Experience

Co-Editor: Holli Levitsky

Professor of English and Director of Jewish Studies

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Justice and Harmony: Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation

Author: Joshua Mason

Associate Professor of Philosophy

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Dialogue on the Treshold: Heidegger and Trakl

Author: Ian Alexander Moore

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

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The Argument Toolbox

Author: K.J. Peters

Professor and Chair of English

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Pope Benedict XVI: The Significance of His Theological Vision

Author: Fr. Thomas P. Rausch, S.J.

Emeritus Professor of Theological Studies

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Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer

Author: Mairead Sullivan

Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

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Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body With Richard Kearney

Co-Editor: Brian Treanor

Professor of Philosophy, Charles S. Casassa Chair

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Boris Hessen and Philosophy: The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics

Author: Sean Winkler

Lecturer of Philosophy

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The Stranger You Are

Poetry by Gail Wronsky

Professor of English

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Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

Sylvia Zamora

Assistant Professor of Sociology