Shades of Greene in Catholic Literary Modernism

Mark Bosco, S.J., is an associate professor of English and theology and the director of the Joan
and Bill Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching
and research focus on the intersection of theological discourse and literature, particularly the twentieth-
century Catholic literary tradition. He has written on Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor,
and the aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Among his books are Graham Greene’s Catholic
Imagination, Academic Nobels as Satire: Critical Studies of an Emerging Genre, and Finding
God in All Things: Celebrating Bernard Lonergan, John Courtney Murray, and Karl Rahner.