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Paul Contino

Pepperdine University

Paul J. Contino is Professor of Great Books at Pepperdine University. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Notre Dame, after which taught for twelve years at Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University. He has served at Pepperdine since 2002, and has been twice granted their Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. Along with his wife Professor Mary Mullins, he has co-edited the journal Christianity and Literature. In 2001 he co-edited and introduced Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith (Northwestern UP).  He has published a number of essays on Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as essays on Zhuangzi, Dante Alighieri, and Jane Austen as well as a number of contemporary Catholic authors. His book Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs (Cascade, Wipf and Stock, 2020) will soon be published in Russian translation (Trans. Irina Burova, Academic Studies Press 2022).