Professor Anthony Esolen teaches Renaissance English Literature and the Development of Western Civilization at Providence College. He writes regularly for Touchstone, Crisis, The Catholic Thing, Catholic World Report, Front Porch Republic, Public Discourse, and Magnificat. His most recent books are Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Press, 2010), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery Press, 2008) and Ironies of Faith (ISI Press, 2007); his Commentary on the Roman Missal is now available from Magnificat Press. Professor Esolen is the translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy (3 volumes, Random House), Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (Johns Hopkins University Press), and Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Professor Esolen is available as time permits for speaking engagements (September through early May in the US). With his family, he spends summers in Nova Scotia, where he enjoys picking berries, studying dead (or nearly dead) languages, and roofing the barn.
