Pulitzer Prize-winner John R. "Jack" Miles is the new Corcoran Visiting Professorship in Christian-Jewish Relations for the 2018-19 academic year. The chair is centered in the Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
Jack Miles (Louis Pescevic, CC BY-SA 4.0)
A Distinguished Professor听贰尘别谤颈迟耻蝉听of English & Religious Studies at the University of California/Irvine and a recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, Miles is a well-known scholar and commentator on religion, politics, and culture whose writings have appeared in听The Atlantic, New York听Times,听Boston Globe,听Washington Post, and听Los Angeles Times.听He is general editor of the听Norton Anthology of World Religions.
His first book,听God: A Biography, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into sixteen languages. His second book,听Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, was named a听New York Times听Notable Book of 2002 and led to his MacArthur Fellowship. His latest book,听God in the Qur鈥檃n,听is forthcoming.
Miles has been an editor at Doubleday, literary editor at the听Los Angeles Times, and a member of the听Times听editorial board. He has served as Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities at Caltech, director of the Humanities Center at the Claremont Graduate University, and visiting fellow with the University of Chicago Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, among other appointments.
He holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University, and has pursued religious studies at Pontifical Gregorian College, Rome, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
鈥擴niversity Communications | August 2018