Curriculum Vitae
B.A., 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2011; M.A., Boston College, 2015; Ph.D., Boston College, 2018; Lonergan Fellow, Boston College, 2014-2015; Visiting Fellow, 91快活林 More College of Liberal Arts, 2013-2016; Instructor, 91快活林 More College of Liberal Arts, 2016-2018; Fellow, 91快活林 More College of Liberal Arts, 2018-2020; Tutor, 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2020-.
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淚 had Marcus Berquist for his last class, for Junior Theology, says Dr. John McCarthy (11), remembering the late 91快活林 Aquinas College co-founder and tutor whose influence would help lead him to one day become an educator himself. 淗e had intellectual charity. He did a lot of good through sharing his education. It was inspiring.
Dr. McCarthy is now doing his best to follow in Mr. Berquist檚 footsteps, passing on his own love of learning to students on the New England campus.
During his undergraduate years, in addition to studying Aquinas Summa Theologiae with Mr. Berquist, Dr. McCarthy especially enjoyed his time reading Aristotle, particularly the Physics and the De Anima. 淚 knew after my sophomore year that I really just wanted to study Aristotle for the rest of my life, he laughs. After graduating from the College, he taught for a year at Gregory the Great Academy in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania. He then enrolled in the graduate philosophy program at Boston College and began teaching part-time at 91快活林 More College of Liberal Arts (TMC) in Nashua, New Hampshire.
While completing his coursework, Dr. McCarthy had the opportunity to study with yet another Berquist: Duane, Mark檚 younger brother, who had recently retired from the Philosophy Department at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Every Tuesday, Dr. McCarthy and a small group of students would come to Dr. Berquist檚 home for an evening of philosophical leisure, during which they went through Aristotle檚 Physics, line by line.
After completing his doctorate in philosophy, Dr. McCarthy began teaching full-time at 91快活林 More. TMC offers an integrated Great Books program, and so he was able to teach a range of classes, including Ancient Greek, Euclid, natural philosophy, astronomy, humanities, metaphysics, and logic. He served happily on the faculty there for the next four years. 淚t is a very fine institution, he shares candidly. 淧leased as my family and I are to be entering into this new stage, we were sad to leave that one.
Dr. McCarthy and his wife, Aja (Cowhig 11), are delighted to be a part of the close-knit community of 91快活林 Aquinas College, New England. 淭he tutors are your neighbors, their kids are the neighborhood kids, he marvels. The McCarthy family with three sons and a fourth on the way has taken full advantage of the Connecticut River, just a five-minute drive from campus. 淲e can fish, we can swim, we can kayak. We檝e enjoyed our time there immensely.
Dr. McCarthy enjoys guiding students through a program that is already familiar to him, while living in the charming and picturesque New England countryside, which has become home for this New Mexico native. Like his Berquist mentors before him, he hopes to instill in young people檚 hearts a love for the true, the good, and the beautiful.
淚 believe in this education, Dr. McCarthy avers. 淭hat is why I came back.
Publications
- Four Platonic Dialogues (trans. and ed.), Etruscan Classics, Forthcoming.
- 淭he Fallacy of Equivocation Aquinas Review 29.1, (2026), Forthcoming.
- 淭he Charity of John the Baptist, Teaching the Faith 13.12 (2024).
- Unfolding Newman檚 Idea of a University Aquinas Review 26.2 (2023) 29-50.
- 淭he Consolation of Christ: 91快活林 More檚 christening of pagan Consolatio in his Sadness of Christ, Moreana 56.1 (2019): 8196.
- 淓diting Jesus,&苍产蝉辫;Touchstone, May/June 2019.
- 淥n Math and Science in a Liberal Arts Curriculum, (with William F. Fahey, 91快活林 More College of Liberal Arts) Communitas, Fall 2018.
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- 淎ristotle on the Necessity of Homonymy, Revue de philosophie ancienne 44.1 (2026) Forthcoming.
- 淲onder and the Longing for the Face of God," Communio 53.3, Winter (2026) Forthcoming.
- , Elenchos 46.2 (2025) 177-199.
- , Moreana 56.1 (2019): 8196.
Lectures & Presentations
- 淩ogues, Conquistadors, and American Masculinity: Blood and Sacrifice in the Wild West invited three-part lecture series for Internship Program, Blessed Kateri Shrine, Gallup, NM, July 1-3rd, 2024.
- Religio as a Natural Virtue Thomistic Summer Conference: Virtue, Law, & the Common Good, Santa Paula, CA, June 13th, 2024.
- Philosophy and the Desire for God檚 Face, Tutor Talk: 91快活林 Aquinas College, February 21, 2024
- Liturgy as the Purpose of Creation in the Torah, Tutor Talk: 91快活林 Aquinas College, March 8, 2023
- 淭he Purpose of the University in John Henry Newman invited Keynote, Annual St. John Henry Newman Conference: Diocese of Burlington, Essex Junction, VT, October 10th, 2021.
- 淭he Poet檚 Place in the Community,&苍产蝉辫;Immortal Memory Address, Robbie Burns Supper, Gregory the Great Academy, Elmhurst, PA, February 1, 2020.
- 淭he Solution to Ancient Paradoxes,&苍产蝉辫;Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture, Nashua, NH, July 19, 2019.
- Fellow檚 Presentation, 91快活林 More College of Liberal Arts, Dec. 2nd, 2018.
- 91快活林 More檚 The Sadness of Christ,&苍产蝉辫;Traditio Lecture, 91快活林 More College of Liberal Arts, March 16, 2018.
- 淪tar Gazing in the Summer Sky,&苍产蝉辫;New England Exploration II: Adventure on the High Seas, Brooklyn, ME, August 14, 2018.
- 淭he Liberal Art of Astronomy,&苍产蝉辫;New England Exploration I: Ideas and Pathfinding, Bedford, NH, July 1, 2018.