Community Service:
Member of the NDU faculty Senate to represent the retirees since 2022.
Member of the governing board of the ND Retiree Association since 2022.
Mentor of a Masters of Divinity student each year since 2017.
Elected member of the American Weil Society governing board since 2004.
Elected member of the international Weil society since 2016 (the only American to be so chosen ever) L’Association pour l’Étude de la Pensée de Simone Weil.
On the governing board of the on-site Simone Weil Academic publication: ATTENTION since 2019.
Teaching (including off-campus):
A course at the Forever Learning Institute in South Bend:” Women who loved the world: Simone Weil and Etti Hillesum”.
Publications:
Chapter:” Force in the Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil,” forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.
Article: forthcoming from “Labyrinth, ” based in Vienna:” Literature at the service of truth: Simone Weil and L’Enracinement.
Co-author with Prof Ann Astell of a Forum Issue. ”Translations of Beauty: Simone Weil and literature” for the ND periodical Religion and Literature, 2024.
"Simone Weil: 'Exercer une domination de maître à esclave, seule victoire durable d'une guerre,'" Cahier Simone Weil, XLIV - 1, Mars 2021, pp. 1 - 14.
Academic Lectures and Conference Presentations:
2022 International conference co-sponsored with Professor Ann Astell at Notre Dame: ”Translations of Beauty: Simone Weil and literature” - 80 participants from all over the world.
Talk given at the University of Colorado Boulder, 2022 “Literature at the service of Truth “.
Talk given in Angers, France 2021 ”L’Or, la Gloire, le Culte et l’Oppression : Le Déracinement des Amérindiens".