Stephen Schloesser, SJ

Associate professor, history

Education: Ph.D., history and humanities, Stanford University

Specialization: France 1789-present; late modern Catholicism; modernity

Representative Publication: Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933 (University of Toronto Press, 2005)

Projects: In 2005-2006, I will occupy the Lo Schiavo Chair at the University of San Francisco, where I’ll teach and help establish the Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought. I’m also writing a book called Catholicism Confronts Modernity, 1789-present.

I am postponing my sabbatical until next year, during which I hope to write a book called Olivier Messiaen and the French Catholic Revival. I’m working on securing a book contract that would include packaging a DVD performance of Messiaen’s “Visions of Amen,” performed by two pianists with whom I toured this year in a concert-lecture series.

And then, exhaustion.

Stephen Schloesser’s Boston College website.