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Humanities Faculty
English
PATRICIA MICHAEL, PhD
Professor of English
Office: Room 408E, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3463
Email: pmichael@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, MA, PhD, Temple University
Areas of interest: 18th Century, Romantic and Victorian Periods;
murder mysteries; the paranormal; archeology; British and European history; concepts
of the house in literature; the interdisciplinary study of landscapes
Recent Publications/Presentations:
“Space, Place, and Transformation: Varieties
of House and Home in Dickens’ Dombey and Son.” European
Society for the Study of English Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark,
Summer 2008.
“Historical Fact and Fictional Truth in Atwood’s The Blind Assassin,
Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, and McEwan’s Saturday.” International
Conference on the Novel and Its Borders, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom,
Summer 2008.
“Re-crossing the Bar: A Reassessment of the Victorian Response to Death.” The
Victorian Institute Conference, University of South Carolina, October, 2008.
Other Roles: Lover of cats and dogs; mother of artist; pursuer of knowledge;
advocate for the major in English
Favorite Quote: “Ah, that a man’s reach should exceed his grasp/
or what’s a heaven for!” -Robert Browning
History
MARY CARROLL JOHANSEN, PhD
Associate
Professor of History
Office: Room 318, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3365
Email: MCJohansen@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, Georgetown University; MA, PhD, College of William and Mary
Areas of expertise: History of Colonial and Revolutionary America and the
Early American Republic; U.S. Women’s History.
Areas of interest: Southern women’s history: education, reform, and
power.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Review of Debra Meyers’s Common Whores,
Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women
in Colonial Maryland.
Other Roles: Treasurer, Faculty Senate of Holy Family University; Chair, Faculty
Senate Scholarship Committee; Moderator for the Holy Family University Class
of 2010; Holy Family University coordinator for the Holy Family-Glen Foerd
History Speaker Series; Membership Committee, Southern Association for Women
Historians.
Favorite
Quote: “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent
people and affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the
best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
CATHLYN MARISCOTTI, PhD
Associate
Professor of History
Office: Room 315, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3647
Email: cmariscotti@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, Furman University; MA, PhD, Temple University
Areas of expertise: Women’s History; History of the Modern Middle East;
Intellectual History; World History
Areas of interest: Effects of Modernism and Postmodernism on the Discourse
of History; Professional Class Egyptians (including women) during the Liberal
Nationalist Period; Economic, Political, Cultural, and Intellectual Connections
in World History.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Gender and Class in the Egyptian Women’s
Movement, 1925-1939, Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Lecture on History As a Discourse—Edward Said‘s Thoughts and the
Place of History in Academic Discourse” at the Teaching Center, Community
College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA on December 10, 2007.
Other Roles: Advisor for the Alpha Eta Iota chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (History
Honor Society); Member of an NGO, International Association of University
Presidents Commission on Disarmament Education, Conflict Resolution and Peace; Member
of the National Association of Fellowship Advisors (NAFA); Faculty Senate
Development Committee; General Education Assessment Committee.
Favorite Quote: "The biggest challenge of the day is: how to bring about
a revolution of the heart."-Dorothy Day
Philosophy
ARTHUR A. GRUGAN, PhD
Professor
of Philosophy
Office: Room 309, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3280
Email: agrugan@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, LaSalle University; MA, PhD, Duquesne University; JD Widener
University School of Law
Areas of expertise: 20th Century German and French philosophy; 19th Century
German philosophy; Plato; Philosophy of Law; Phenomenology; Philosophy of Art;
Philosophy and Literature; Ethics.
Areas of interest: 20th Century German and philosophy; aesthetics; James Joyce.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Published Chapter:- “Hölderlin’s
Der Tod des Empedokles: Erste Fassung” in Ambiguity in the Western Mind,
New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
“Wassily Kandinsky: Creative Breakthrough to Absolute Art,” presented
at Holy Family Creativity Conference, Spring 2008.
Other Roles: Chairperson of Promotion Committee; Faculty Athletics Representative
Favorite Quote: “Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart,
and try to love the questions themselves.” -Ranier Maria Rilke
WILLIAM ZULCH, PhD
Professor
of Philosophy
Office: Room 309, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3409
Email: wzulch@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, University of New Hampshire; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Areas of expertise: Epistemology; Philosophy of Language and Logic; Ethical
Theory; Hegel; Hume.
Areas of interest: Interface between philosophy of mind and ethics, most especially
philosophy of evil.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
“Hume and the Two Definitions Dispute”; “Evil
as a Psychiatric Category”;
“Parallel Distributive Processing and
Dualist Theories of Mind”.
Other Roles: Chair, Faculty Welfare Committee;
Member, Faculty Contracts Committee; Member: American Philosophical Association,
Hume Society, Aristotelian Society, Mind Association, Conference of Philosophical
Societies; Phi Beta Kappa.
Favorite
Quote: Die Welt des Glucklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglucklichen.-Wittgenstein
Religious Studies
Rev. JAMES COLLINS, SOED
Professor
of Religious Studies
Office: Room 321, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3249
E-mail: jcollins@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, STL, Pontifical Lateran University (Rome); SOED, Pontifical
Oriental Institute (Rome)
Areas of expertise: Eastern Christian Studies
Areas of interest:
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Other Roles:
Favorite Quote:
REV. MARK J. HUNT, STD
Associate
Professor in Religious Studies
Office: Room 218B, Newtown Campus
Phone: 215-504-2000 ext. 4045
Email: frmhunt@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, MA, St. Charles Seminary; STL, STD, Pontifical University
of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome)
Areas of expertise: Scripture, Systematic, Mystical and Patristic Theology,
Teilhardian studies
Areas of interest: Relationship of Science and Theology, Jung
and Christian Spirituality
Recent Publications/Presentations:
"Preaching the Gospel according to
Saint Mark for Deacons"
Other Roles: Faculty advisor and mentor for graduate students in the Pastoral
Counseling track of the Counseling Program
Favorite Quote: "My yoke is easy and my burden light (Jesus in Matthew 11:30)" and "The
day will come after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity,
that we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for
the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
(Fr Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)"
JOSEPH STOUTZENBERGER, PhD
Professor
of Religious Studies
Office: Room 321, Holy Family Hall
Phone: 215-637-7700 ext. 3553
Email: jstoutzenber@holyfamily.edu
Education: BA, Mount St. Paul College; MRE, Loyola University; MA, PhD,
Temple University
Areas of expertise: World Religions; Christian Morality and Justice; Contemporary
Catholicism.
Areas of interest: Inter-religious dialogue and religious education.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
The Human Quest for God: An Overview
of World Religions, Twenty-Third Publications, 2006.
You Are My Friends: Gospel Reflections for Your Spiritual Journey, Twenty-Third
Publications, 2006.
Other roles: Advisor to religious studies majors
Favorite Quote: "Anyone who fails to love can never have known God, because
God is love." 1 John 4:8
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