Joshua Andrew Mayo
Assistant Professor of English, Grove City College

Email: JAMayo@gcc.edu
Post: Box #3044, 100 Campus Dr. / Grove City College / Grove City, PA 16127
 
EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of Dallas (2017)
  • M.A., University of Dallas (2014)
  • M.A., University of Mississippi (2012)
  • B.A., Grove City College (2010)
 
TEACHING
 
I am an assistant professor of English and a colleague of the Writing Program at Grove City College. Outside the classroom, I serve on campus as a faculty advisor for The Quad Literary Magazine and a co-advisor for the Lux Mea Society. I also write articles on reading and rhetoric for The Circe Institute.
 
AREAS OF INTEREST
 
Rhetoric in literature and composition; classical education; literary theory and poetics; poetic knowledge
 
PRINT PUBLICATIONS

  • “The Best College for You?” Salvo 44 (Spring 2018)

  • “Soul Comforter: On Emily Dickinson & the Source of Our Hope” Touchstone (July/August 2017)

  • “God’s Gift of Metaphor: On George MacDonald & the Christian Imagination” Touchstone (July/August 2016)
 
ONLINE WRITING

  • My articles at First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/author/joshua-mayo

  • My work at The Circe Institute: https://www.circeinstitute.org/blog/author/2184
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LECTURES & TALKS: A SELECTION

  • “On the Limits of Politics and Poetry in The Tempest,” paper presentation at the 3rd Biennial Shakespeare Conference, University of Dallas, October 6th, 2018.

  • “Education as Preparation for Glory,” lecture for faculty orientation, Coram Deo Academy, August 3rd, 2018.

  • “The Militarist & the Pacifist: G.K. Chesterton, WWI & the Idea of a Just War,” lecture at the Center for Vision & Values Conference, Grove City College, April 13th, 2018.

  • “For Its Own Sake: Recovering the Heart of Learning with A.G. Sertillanges,” lecture for the Lux Mea Society, April 5th, 2018.

  • “For Glory & for Beauty: The Role of Splendor in the Christian Life,” lecture for the Annual Arts Festival, Grove City College, March 16th, 2018.

  • “Providence & Tense in Paradise Lost, Book III,” paper presentation at the Conference on Christianity & Literature, John Brown University, November 14th, 2014.

  • “Time as Distension: Augustine, Plotinus & T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets,” paper presentation at the IPS Fall Colloquium, University of Dallas, October 13th, 2013.

  • “George Herbert’s “Paradise”: A Reformed Emblem,” paper presentation at the George Herbert Society Conference, Grove City College, April 5th, 2013.