25th Annual Madeleva Lecture

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Place: Carroll Auditorium, Madeleva Hall

Description: This year’s Madeleva Lecture Series speaker is Wendy M. Wright. Wright is Professor of Theology at Creighton University and holds the John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities. She also teaches regularly in several graduate ministerial programs including Creighton’s Christian Spirituality Master’s program and the National Methodist Academy for Spiritual Formation. Wright is co-host with Dr. J. O’Keefe of the Creighton University podcast “Catholic Comments.” She has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Wright’s expertise falls in the areas of history of spirituality, family spirituality, spiritual direction and the Catholic devotional tradition. Her academic work has focused on the Salesian spiritual tradition founded by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal. Wright is the author of numerous books and is currently working on editing the writings of Caryll Houselander.

About the Madeleva Lecture Series: Named after the legendary Sister Madeleva Wolff, CSC, president of Saint Mary's College from 1934 to 1961, the series is well known both nationally and internationally. Some of the most influential women scholars of the past twenty-five years are past-Madeleva Lecturers.

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Admission: Free and open to the public

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