Nancy Enright

Nancy Enright holds a Ph.D. from Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA. She is a Professor of English at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, NJ, USA and the Director of the University Core. She is the author/co-editor of three books, an anthology, Community: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, Dec. 31, 2015), Catholic Literature and Film (Lexington, 2016), and The Passion Narratives of Saints Perpetua, Felicity, and their Fellow Martyrs (Lexington, summer 2024), co-edited with former student and recent English MA Frank Hunter, who did the translation. This last and most recent volume includes companion essays from the two editors and six other scholars, including three others from Seton Hall. She has published articles on a variety of subjects, including the works of Dante, Augustine, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis, as well as on topics linking theology with contemporary issues in journals such as Logos, Commonweal, National Catholic Reporter, Christianity Today, Renascence, Today’s American Catholic, and other venues. She has an essay in Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, edited by Leslie Donovan (Modern Language Association, 2015), and her essay “Dante and the Human Identity: A Transformation from Grace to Grace” appears in A Companion to Christian Humanism (Brill, 2016). Her essay, “Tolkien’s Females and the Defining of Power” has been published three times in Renascence, in Harold Bloom’s J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations), and Perilous and Fair: Women in the Life and Works of J. R. R. Tolkien.