Speakers Bureau
The following academics, lecturers and authors are part of the speakers bureau of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and they have presented papers at various conferences of the Institute in the United States and worldwide.
Was President Emeritus, G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and Founding
Editor, The Chesterton Review
Father Ian Boyd was a priest of the Congregation of Saint Basil. An internationally recognized Chesterton scholar, he was the author of The Novels of G.K. Chesterton (London 1975). For many years, he was Professor of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. Father Boyd also lectured on the subject of "Sacramental Themes in Modern Literature." Among the Christian authors whose work he discussed are T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Piers Paul Read, Muriel Spark and Evelyn Waugh. In nineteenth-century literature, he was interested in the work of such authors as Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Father Boyd retired in July 2020 and passed away on January 10, 2024.
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Dermot Quinn, D.Phil.
Professor, Seton Hall University
Dermot Quinn, D.Phil., is a professor of history at Seton Hall University, a member
of the Board of Advisors of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture. In
August 2020 he was named Editor of The Chesterton Review. He was educated at Trinity
College, Dublin and New College, Oxford, where he received his doctorate in 1986. He
has written extensively on Chestertonian themes and has authored three books: The
Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life (Rutgers University Press, 2004;
winner, New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance, Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2005); Patronage
and Piety: The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850-1900 (Stanford University
Press/Macmillan, 1993), Understanding Northern Ireland (Baseline Books, Manchester,
UK, 1993), and Seton Hall University 1856-2006—A History (Rutgers, 2023). He written
many articles and reviews in the field of British and Irish history. He was Fellow
of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, Academic Year 2008-09.
- Jaime Antúnez, former Editor, Revista Humanitas, Chile
- Salvador Antuñano, Professor, U. Francisco de Vitoria, Spain
- Philip Blond, Lecturer, United Kingdom
- Daniel Callam, C.S.B., Associate Editor, The Chesterton Review, Canada
- Allan Carlson, Lecturer and Author, United States
- Owen Dudley Edwards, Lecturer and Author, United Kingdom
- Joaquin Garcia-Huidobro, Professor, U de Los Andes, Chile
- Sheridan Gilley, Author, United Kingdom
- Alain Lanavere, Lecturer, France
- Philippe Maxence, Editor, L'Homme Nouveau, France
- David Mills
- Joseph Pearce, Author, United States
- Bill Kauffman, Author, United States
- Karl Schmude, Lecturer and Author, Australia
- Julia Stapleton, University of Durham, United Kingdom
- Aleksander Stepkowski, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Thomas Storck, Lecturer, United States
- Brian Sudlow, University Professor, United Kingdom