Professor
Room 385
Telephone: 617-552-3861
Fax: 617.552.3874
Email: bernauer@bc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy (S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook); S.T.M. in Psychiatry & Religion (Union Theological Seminary); M.Div. in Theology (Woodstock College); M.A. in Philosophy (St. Louis University); B.A. in Philosophy (Fordham University)
Professional Career
Prof. Bernauer is a Jesuit priest who joined the faculty in 1980. He has occupied the Visiting Jesuit University Professorship at Loyola University in Chicago and has been a Bannan Visiting Scholar at Santa Clara University. In April 2008 he was named Director of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Learning at Boston College.
Fields of Interest
- Holocaust Studies
- Philosophies of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt
- Fascism
Current Teaching
- Hitler, in Search of His Evil (Spring, 2008)
- Hannah Arendt (Spring, 2008)
- Fascisms (Fall, 2008)
- German-Jewish Thinkers (Fall, 2008)
Other Professional Activities
Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College
Some Recent Publications
- "Secular Self-Sacrifice: On Michel Foucault's Courses at the Collège de France." Forthcoming in Michel Foucault: The Legacy (Continuum)
- "From European Anti-Jesuitism to German Anti-Jewishness: A Tale of Two Texts." Forthcoming in The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Festschrift Honoring Stanislaw Musial.
- "A Catholic Conversation with Hannah Arendt." Friends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007).
- "Philosophizing After the Holocaust." Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century (Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2006). |
