Michael D. Hurley

Michael D. Hurley (born 1976) is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Cambridge,^[1] and a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] He was educated at the universities of Cambridge and St Andrews, and at Stonyhurst College.^[3] Hurley has published books and articles on literary form and style, and on the interrelations of literature, philosophy and theology.^[4][5] Concurrent with his academic position at Cambridge, he has been awarded visiting positions at Harvard and All Souls College, Oxford.^[6] Hurley is co-editor of The Hopkins Quarterly, a journal of critical, scholarly and appreciative responses to the lives and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins and his circle.^[7] He is also Chairman of The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst,^[8] and frequently gives talks and public lectures on the philosophical and theological questions posed by art and literature.^{[9][10][11][12]} In 2022, Hurley was profiled by the Catholic Herald as one of the “UK Catholic leaders of today”.^[13]

Publications

• Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century (2018). Co-edited with Marcus Waithe. Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0198737827
• Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief (2017). Bloomsbury.
  ISBN 978-1474234078
• G. K. Chesterton (2012). Northcote House/British Council.
  ISBN 978-0746312100
• Poetic Form: An Introduction (2012). Co-authored with Michael O'Neill. Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 978-0321198204
• The Complete Father Brown Stories (2012). Edited and Introduced. Penguin Classics.
  ISBN 978-0141193854