Mary Grace Mangano, M.Ed/MFA

Professor
University Core Curriculum

Professor Mangano joins the Core department to teach the Journey of Transformation course.

Professor Mangano has taught courses on religion and literature in several major cities, and now teaches in the Core at Seton Hall. She earned her BA from Villanova University, and went on to attend the University of Notre Dame, earning a Master’s of Science in Management and a Master’s in Education through the Alliance for Catholic Education. Most recently, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston as an inaugural Gioia Family Fellowship recipient.

In October 2023, an anthology of poetry on the writings of Soren Kierkegaard, which she co-edited with poet and former head of the NEA Dana Gioia, was published with Wiseblood Books. Her own poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Windhover, Modern Age, Reformed Journal, Ekstasis, and Orchards Poetry Journal, among others. Her reviews and essays have appeared in America, Dappled Things, Fare Forward, Church Life Journal, and Front Porch Republic, among others.