The Enduring Tensions Between Catholicism and Modernity

Julian Bourg is an associate professor of history at Boston College. His teaching interests include
nineteenth and twentieth century European intellectual history, intellectuals and politics, and
modernism and postmodernism. He is also the author of several books and scholarly publications
including From Revolution to Ethics, winner of the 2008 Morris D. Forkosch book prize from
the Journal of the History of Ideas. His continuing interests include French theory, especially the
thought of Michel Foucault; the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; and twentieth-century
French Catholic intellectuals. He serves on the editorial board of Modern Intellectual History and
is the past recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies at Washington
University in St. Louis, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship from the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation.