New Insights into Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Dr David Torevell taught in Catholic secondary schools before entering Higher Education in 1992. He was previously Honorary Research Fellow at Leeds Trinity University, UK, and is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, UK and Visiting Professor at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform (2000) and Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown: Another Place (2007). He has edited many books and published numerous articles in international journals on a range of theological, philosophical and educational issues. His research interests include Catholic theology, theology and literature, theology and the arts, sport and religion, and Catholic education.