{"id":336,"date":"2019-04-16T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/humanities\/?p=336"},"modified":"2019-03-31T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T21:48:26","slug":"tonight-brian-conniff-on-bruce-springsteen-and-the-catholic-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/humanities\/2019\/04\/16\/tonight-brian-conniff-on-bruce-springsteen-and-the-catholic-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight! Brian Conniff on Bruce Springsteen and the Catholic Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-333 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/humanities\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-31-at-5.41.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/humanities\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-31-at-5.41.22-PM.png 1582w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/humanities\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-31-at-5.41.22-PM-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/humanities\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-31-at-5.41.22-PM-768x582.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/humanities\/files\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-31-at-5.41.22-PM-1024x775.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, CAS Dean Brian Conniff will be speaking on the enduring connection between legendary American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen and seminal modernist writer Flannery O&#8217;Connor at 5:30 pm in LSC 133.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Conniff has been the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 2010. Previously, he served as dean of the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences at Radford University in Radford, Va. Prior to that, he served as a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Conniff\u2019s academic areas of expertise and research are lyric and modern poetry and prison writing. His book \u201cThe Lyric of Modern Poetry: Olson, Creeley, Bunting\u201d was published in 1988 and his book entitled \u201cBefore the Law: Race, Violence and Morality in Contemporary American Prison Writing\u201d is currently under consideration for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Conniff has published more than two dozen articles in academic books and scholarly journals including, most recently \u201cJohn Tracy Ellis and the Figure of the Catholic Intellectual\u201d in Catholic Education; \u201cAnswering \u2018The Waste Land:\u2019 Robert Hayden and the Rise of African American Poetic Sequence\u201d in The African American Review; and \u201cLive from Death Row as Post-legal Prison Writing\u201d in Literature and Law. He frequently writes book reviews for Religious Studies Review and Christianity and Literature.<\/p>\n<p>During his career, he received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today and Campus Compact among others.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Conniff earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Rutgers University and his master\u2019s degree in English literature from The University of Scranton. He earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, CAS Dean Brian Conniff will be speaking on the enduring connection between legendary American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen and seminal modernist writer Flannery O&#8217;Connor at 5:30 pm in LSC 133. Brian Conniff has been the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 2010. 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