Michael C. McCarthy, S.J.
Assistant Professor Fr. McCarthy was born in San Francisco in the 1960s, the youngest of six children in a fairly traditional Irish Catholic family. Since then, he has wrestled with one question that forms the backbone of his academic interests: how does one make sense of commitment to the Catholic-Christian tradition in a world which is dizzyingly complex and richly diverse in cultures? After a year as an undergraduate at Stanford, he entered the Jesuits, and finished his B.A. in Classical Languages at Santa Clara University (1987). Next he went to Oxford University for four years, where he read Literae Humaniores ("Greats," or Philosophy and Classical Literature) and completed the course for a B.A./M.A. (Oxon.). After receiving the M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California in 1997, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in Patristics (the study of theology in the Early Church) from the University of Notre Dame in 2003, where he wrote a dissertation on Augustine's interpretation of the Psalms.
Fr. McCarthy joined the faculty at Santa Clara in 2003, with a joint appointment in the Religious Studies and Classics Departments. In both he pursues his dual interests in the rich cultural world of Greece and Rome and the development of the Christian theological tradition within it. His research interests focus on the imaginative ways early Christians interpreted Scripture, especially the Psalms. He teaches courses in Christian Traditions and Augustine, as well as courses on Homer and Horace for the Classics Department.
Courses -
Courses taught at Santa Clara University | | TESP 4 | Christian Tradition | | | HONORS 11 | Classical Culture | | | RSOC 65 | Early Christianity | | | TESP 103 | Religious Disillusionment: Augustine through Freud | | | CLAS 112 | The World of Augustine | | | CLAS 127 | Vergil's Aeneid | | | CLAS 132 | Horace | | | CLAS 155 | Plato | | | CLAS 138 | Augustine | | | CLAS 161 | Homer's Iliad | -
Academic Appointments - Visiting Professor, Department of Theology, Loyola University, Chicago
| January-May 2007 | - Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Department of Classics, Santa Clara University
| 2003-present | - Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Classics, Santa Clara University
| 2002, 1996-1997 | - Adjunct Lecturer, Theology Department, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
| 1995-1996 | - Instructor, Jesuit High School, Sacramento, CA
| 1991-1994 |
Research -
Research Interests - Patristic Theology
- History of Exegesis
- Early Christian liturgy
- Augustine
- New Testament
- Greek and Latin Literature
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Publications - Dissertation
- "The Revelatory Psalm: A Fundamental Theology of Augustine's Enarrationes in psalmos." Ph.D. Diss., University of Notre Dame, 2003.
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- Chapters in Books
- "Title." In Redemption: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (ed. Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, Gerald O'Collins; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
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Presentations - "The Birds and the Bees (and the Serpents and the Stags) in Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos." Paper presented at the North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2001.
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Awards & Grants - Edmund Campion Fellowship, Santa Clara University, 2002-2003.
- Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, Santa Clara University, 2001-2002.
- Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2000.
- Presidential Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 1997-2001.
- Visting Bannan Lecturer, Santa Clara University, 1997.
- First Class Honours Degree, Oxford University, 1991.
- B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Santa Clara University, 1987.
- Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honors Society.
- Eta Sigma Phi, National Classics Honors Society.
Activities -
Professional Memberships - American Academy of Religion
- American Classical Society
- Catholic Theological Society of America
- North American Patristics Society
- Society for the Promotion of Hellenistic Studies
- Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
- Vergilian Society of America
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Activities - Participant, Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies at the University of Oxford (August 18-23, 2003).
- National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars' Grant Advisor, 1994.
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