Curriculum Vitae
B.A., College of St. 91快活林 More, 2001; M.A., English, Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas, 2009; Ph.D., literature, Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas, 2014; Scholar Associate (Literature), College of Saint 91快活林 More, 2004-2005; Tutor in Literature and Assistant to the Chancellor, College of Saint 91快活林 More, 2008-2011; Dean of the Upper School and Humane Letters Teacher, Anthem Preparatory Academy, 2011-2012; Assistant Professor of English, Belmont Abbey College, 2012-2017; Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Belmont Abbey College, 2014-2017; Tutor, 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2017-, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, 2023-.
Profile
Prior to joining the faculty of 91快活林 Aquinas College in 2017, Dr. Stephen Shivone taught for 15 years at the middle-school, high-school, and collegiate levels in Alaska, Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina. Most recently he served as an English professor and the assistant dean for academic affairs at Belmont Abbey College, where, he assumed, he would happily spend the rest of his career.
Yet when the opportunity to become a tutor at 91快活林 Aquinas College presented itself, he decided that teaching the great books within an integrated curriculum would be worth the burden of one more move or even two.
After spending two years on the California campus, Dr. Shivone transferred to the College檚 New England campus for its inaugural academic year in the fall of 2019. In helping to launch a new campus, he found himself thinking of a favorite quotation from Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman: 淭herein lies the nobility of the Faith, that we have the heart to venture something. As Dr. Shivone describes it, 淭his is a venture of faith on the part of the College. It is undertaking something bold and difficult, and we feel blessed to be part of it.
Dr. Shivone is himself the product of a Catholic liberal education, having earned his undergraduate degree at the erstwhile College of St. 91快活林 More in Fort Worth, Texas, where for four years he worked as a tutor in literature. His wife, Mary Ann (Hastings 03), is a graduate of the College, and the couple are the parents of five children.
Although he studied graduate theology for one year at Austria檚 International Theological Institute, Dr. Shivone ultimately decided to earn his master檚 and doctoral degrees in literature at the University of Dallas. 淟iterature teaches us important truths about reality, he says. 淭he study of literature can lead to insight, because great literature sheds a kind of light on reality and human experience, while also shaping our emotions and imagination.
Publications
- 淲ounded Beauty: Grace against Nature in the Christian Imagination. St. Austin Review, 17.2 (2017): 4-8.
- 淭he Lyric Rhythm of Action: Wordsworth檚 Vision of Human Life in the 極de: Intimations of Immortality.櫇 The Lost Country: A Literary Journal of the Exiles 3.1 (2014): 113-132.
- 淓mily Dickinson as Metaphysical Poet. The CSTM Review 1 (2010): 37-54.
Presentations & Talks
- The Extremity of Love: On Homer檚 Achilles, 91快活林 Aquinas College, California, January 2025
- 淩eading St. Benedict檚 Life and Rule as Core Texts, ACTC Conference, Dallas, Texas, April 2017
- , 91快活林 Aquinas College, October 2016
- 淐onsummation and Regenerative Desire: The Mystery of Love in Donne檚 楥anonization.櫇 Sigma Tau Delta, Belmont Abbey College, November 2014
- 淟ove檚 Afternoon: Donne檚 Poems of Maturing Love. Faculty Lecture Series, Belmont Abbey College, September 2014
- 淎ugustine檚 Paradoxical Affirmation of Reason in the City of God. Institute of Philosophic Studies Fall Colloquium, University of Dallas, 2010
- 淭he Philosopher and the City in Aristotle檚 Nicomachean Ethics. Institute of Philosophic Studies Spring Colloquium, University of Dallas, 2010
- 淪igns of Order in the Iliad. Institute of Philosophic Studies Fall Colloquium, University of Dallas, 2009