Join us for a lecture with Dr. Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of English at Duke University, which will discuss the theological and philosophical aspects of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterwork The Brothers Karamozov.
 

Doors Open at 6:00

Event Begins at 6:30

Reception to Follow.

"THOMAS PFAU (PhD 1989, SUNY Buffalo) is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with a secondary appointment in the Divinity School at Duke University. He has published some fifty essays on literary, philosophical, and theological subjects ranging from the 18^ththrough the early 20^th century. In addition to two translations, of Hölderlin and Schelling (SUNY Press, 1987 and 1994), he has also edited seven essay collections and special journal issues and is the author of four monographs: Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford UP 1997), Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, Melancholy, 1790-1840 (Johns Hopkins UP 2005),  Minding the Modern: Intellectual Traditions, Human Agency, and Responsible Knowledge (Notre Dame UP, 2013), and Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (Notre Dame UP, 2022). He is currently writing a book focused on the relationship between poetry and theology from 1800 to the present.