Associate Professor Tracey Rowland
BA LLB (QLD), B LITT, MA, GRAD DIP MOD LANG (MELB), PHD (CANTAB), STL (Lateran), Continental Theology; Political Philosophy
CURRENT POSITION:
Dean and Permanent Fellow of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne).
Member, Centre for Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Member, Editorial Board, Communio:International Catholic Review, North America Edition.
PERSONAL:
Married to Stuart Rowland, Melbourne Barrister.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Department of Government, University of Queensland, 1985
Bachelor of Laws, University of Queensland, 1989
Bachelor of Letters, Department of Philosophy, Melbourne University, 1992)
Master of Arts, Melbourne University, 1992
Graduate Diploma in Modern Languages (German), University of Melbourne, 1993
Zertifikate Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Goethe Institute, Melbourne, 1993
Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, 2002.
Licentiate in Sacred Theology, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome 2007.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
I. Books:
Ratzinger’s Faith: the Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, Oxford University Press, forthcoming March 2008.
Culture and the Thomist Tradition after Vatican II (London: Routledge, 2003).
To be translated into French by Ad Solem Publishing House as Gaudium et spes et modernite: Apres Vatican II, forthcoming.
Reviewed in:
The Thomist, January 2004, Theology Jan/Feb;
Blackwell’s Reviews in Religion and Theology February Vol. II (I), 2004;
First Things, May 2004;
The New Pentagruel 1 (2), 2004;
Review of Politics, Vol.67, Winter 2005;
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, 28(1) Spring 2005;
Modern Theology, January, 2006
Subject of Symposia:
Nova et Vetera (international journal based at the Ave Maria University, Florida, USA) Symposium, February, 2005;
International Institute for Culture, Philadelphia, USA, February 20, 2004;
Ethics and Culture Forum of the University of Notre Dame Indiana, USA, September 3, 2004;
Lumen Christi Institute Colloquium, University of Chicago, USA, February 11, 2005;
Jacques Maritain Association Conference, 13-15 October 2005, Washington DC.
II Articles:
'John Paul II and Human Dignity', in John Paul II: Legacy and Witness, Gascoigne, R(ed) (St. Pauls: Sydney, 2007)
Entry on Charles Journet and Yves Simon in Thomistenlexikon, Berger, D et. al. (ed), (Bonn: Nova et Vetera, 2006)
'Response to Burrell, Cessario, Chapp, Lamb and Murphy'
Nova et Vetera, Spring, 2005
'Thomism without Caricatures', Oriens, Summer, 2004, 18-19.
'Divine Gifts to the Secular Desert', Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. II (2), April 2004, 182-187.
'The Authority of 'Experts' and the Ethos of Modern Institutions,' Communio: International Catholic Review (Winter, 2002).
'The Liberal Doctrine of State Neutrality: A Taxonomy,' University of Notre Dame Law Review 2 (December, 2000): 53-66.
'Reflections of a Romantic Thomist: Alasdair MacIntyre's Interview with Dmitri Nikulin' Political Theory Newsletter, 9, 1 (March, 1998): 47-55.
The Jurisprudence and a substantial component of the Administrative Law entries, in the Australian Legal Dictionary (Sydney: Butterworths, 1997).
'Contemporary Central European Reflections on Civic Virtue,' History of European Ideas 21 (4, 1995): 505-513.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Theological aesthetics and anthropology, critiques of modernity and the development of a theology of culture.
COURSE INVOLVEMENT AT THE INSTITUTE:
JP 500/600 The Human Person (2001/3/4/5/6)
Jp 520/620 Nature and Method in Theology (2002/3/4/5)
JP 522/622 Marriage in the Catholic Tradition (2001/3/4)
JP 527/627 Vatican II and John Paul II (2002/3/4/5)
JP 528/628 The New Evangelisation in Post-Modern Culture (2002 Melbourne & Sydney/3/4/6)
JP 523/623 The Theology of the Family as the Domestic Church (2002)
JP2 503/603 St Thomas in the 21st Century (2004/5)
JP 530/630 Themes in systematic Theology I & II (2003/4)
JP 531/631 The Theology of Benedict XVI (2006)
