Jennifer Newsome Martin, Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, and, as of July 2024, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. Hear about her first semester in the director's chair, the recently-concluded Fall Conference on the Catholic Imagination, and preview some exciting new initiatives at the de Nicola Center.
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Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, and, as of July 2024, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. Hear about her first semester in the director’s chair, the recently-concluded Fall Conference on the Catholic Imagination, and preview some exciting new initiatives at the de Nicola Center.
The work of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is aimed at one goal: to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and dialogue, at the highest level and across a range of disciplines. In so doing, they enrich Notre Dame’s distinctive intellectual ecology—and they bring the University’s voice into the academic and public conversations concerning the most vital and complex matters of ethics, literature, art, music, social sciences, philosophy, theology, history, political theory, applied and theoretical science, public policy, and law.
This episode was originally published by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture on January 23, 2025. To explore the entire library of Ethics and Culture Cast podcast episodes and for more information, please visit ethicscenter.nd.edu
MoreMeet the Host: Ken Hallenius
Ken Hallenius is the communications specialist for the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, handling the dCEC’s public relations, social media engagement, Ethics and Culture Cast podcast, website, and donor relations. He joined the dCEC in 2016 after 15 years at the University of Portland, where he worked in alumni relations and residence life. He holds an M.A. in Pastoral Ministry from the University of Portland and a B.A. in Philosophy from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California. He is a member of the Catholic Media Association, writes a monthly column for Today’s Catholic, the newspaper of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, and has published pieces in Angelus News, Orange County Catholic, the Seattle Times, and Grotto Network.
Meet the Faculty: Jennifer Newsome Martin '07 M.T.S, '12 Ph.D.
Jennifer Newsome Martin ’07 M.T.S., ’12 Ph.D. is a systematic theologian with areas of interest in 19th and 20th century Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox thought, trinitarian theology, theological aesthetics, religion and literature, French feminism, ressourcement theology, and the nature of religious tradition. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), was one of ten winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. She is co-editor of An Apocalypse of Love: Essays in Honor of Cyril O’ Regan (Herder & Herder, 2018) and the second edition of the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Catholicism. Over twenty articles and book chapters have appeared in such venues as Modern Theology, Communio: International Catholic Review, The Newman Studies Journal, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and in a number of edited volumes and collections of essays. She serves on the editorial board of Religion & Literature and the University of Notre Dame Press, as well as steering committees of the Hans Urs von Balthasar Consultation of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Christian Systematic Theology Unit in the American Academy of Religion.