Author, playwright, and philosopher Dr. Daniel McInerny will join Christendom’s faculty this coming fall. McInerny, who is the author of The Difficult Good: A Thomistic Approach to Moral Conflict and Human Happiness, will be Christendom’s newest associate professor of philosophy, bringing his valuable knowledge to Christendom’s student body.
McInerny earned his B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1986, continuing his studies at the Catholic University of America, where he earned an M.A. and his Ph.D. in philosophy. Later, McInerny joined the faculty of the University of St. Thomas, teaching philosophy and serving as the director of their Center for Thomistic Studies. He then returned to Notre Dame to become the associate director of their Center for Ethics and Culture, a role he would hold for six years.
Following his stint at Notre Dame, he taught philosophy at Baylor University for a number of years, before turning to his other love, writing plays. McInerny specializes in comedy, and his one-act play, Big Crush, was named a finalist in the Arts Club of Washington’s 2015 One-Act Play Competition. Most recently, since 2014, McInerny has been teaching English and drama at St. John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries, Virginia.
An avid writer, McInerny has been published in Catholic World Report, The Imaginative Conservative, and elsewhere. He is also the author of the Kingdom of Patria series andThe Difficult Good.
McInerny, who is the son of the late famed philosopher and professor Dr. Ralph McInerny, joins a rich tradition of philosophers at Christendom, who seek to introduce students to wisdom at the college. In addition, the philosophy major provides the ability to integrate the liberal arts by showing their relation to each other and to philosophy and theology in an organized view of the whole of reality.
Find out more about Christendom’s department of philosophy here.