Robert Meagher

Biography
Robert Meagher, Professor of Humanities, is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. He has held regular appointments at Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame. He has held visiting chairs and professorships at numerous colleges and universities, including Trinity College Dublin, Yale University, the University of Missouri, the University of Tennessee, and Willamette University. His publications include over a dozen books, as well as a number of translations (Aeschylus and Euripides) and original plays. His most recent books are: Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War and Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War. He has offered workshops on the translation and contemporary production of Greek drama at a number of colleges and universities, here and abroad, and has himself directed productions of ancient dramas at such venues as the Samuel Beckett Centre, Dublin, the Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, MO, and the Nandan Centre for the Performing Arts in Kolkota, India. In recent years he has been concerned to understand and address the wounds inflicted by war on veterans, particularly spiritual wounds and their healing. In this endeavor he has worked with and continues to collaborate with the Veterans Education Project, Mass Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Veterans Administration, and the National Truth Commission on Ethics in War.

Education

 * 1962–1966    University of Notre Dame     Summa cum laude in Philosophy
 * 1966–1970    University of Chicago     Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Fall Classes 2017
HACU-0179 WAR, RECONCILIATION, FORGIVENESS TTh 2:00–3:20 PM • EDH 4

HACU-0256 ANCIENT EPIC 2 TTh 10:30–11:50 AM • EDH 4

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Publications
BOOKS, PLAYS, AND TRANSLATIONS

War and Moral Injury (co-ed. with Lt.Col. Douglas A. Pryer), Cascade Books, forthcoming Spring 2018

Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War, Cascade Books, 2014

Ancient Greece: An Explorer’s Guide (co-author with Elizabeth P. Neave), Interlink Publishing Group, 2007

Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War, Interlink Publishing Group, 2006

Ancient Ireland: An Explorer’s Guide (co-author with Elizabeth P. Neave), Interlink Publishing Group, 2003. Silver Medal Recipient, Travel Book of the Year.

The Epic Voice (co-editor with Alan D. Hodder), Praeger, 2002

Frommer’s Ireland and Frommer’s Dublin, Simon and Schuster, 1997, 1999; IDG 2000; Hungry Minds 2001

The Essential Euripides: Dancing in Dark Times, Bolchazy-Carducci, 2001

The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon, Bolchazy-Carducci, 2001 [Reprint of Helen: Myth, Legend, and the Culture of Misogyny]

Augustine on the Inner Life of the Mind, Hackett, 1998 [Reprint of An Introduction to Augustine]

Frommer’s Greece and Frommer’s Greek Islands (co-author), Simon and Schuster, 1999; IDG Books, 2001

Euripides’ Hekabe, Bolchazy-Carducci, 1996

Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, commissioned by Irene Papas, Bolchazy-Carducci, 1996

Feast Day, Grimpenmire, 1996

Firestorm, Grimpenmire, 1996

Euripides’ Bakkhai, Bolchazy-Carducci, 1995

Helen: Myth, Legend, and the Culture of Misogyny, Continuum, 1995

Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis &amp; Iphigenia in Tauris, commissioned by Irene Papas, University of Tennessee / Bolchazy-Carducci, 1993

Mortal Vision: The Wisdom of Euripides, St. Martin’s, 1989

Euripides’ Helen, commissioned by Irene Papas, University of Massachusetts, 1987

Camus: The Essential Writings, Harper &amp; Row, 1979

An Introduction to Augustine, New York University, 1978 and Harper &amp; Row, 1979

Following the Rich Young Man, Dimension, 1974

Cave Notes, Fortress, 1974

Toothing-Stones: Re-thinking the Political (Editor), Swallow, 1972

Beckonings, Fortress, 1971

Personalities and Powers, Herder &amp; Herder, 1968

ARTICLES Numerous essays, reviews, and articles in a range of publications including: the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Parabola, Perspecta—The Yale Architectural Journal, Continuum, Hermathena, The Thomist, the NICH Journal, The Furrow, the Willamette Journal, Heteroglossia, Journal of the University of Burdwan, Theatre Journal of Rabindra Bharati University.

WEBSITE http://www.moralinjuryandjustwar.org

Current Projects
I am the humanist scholar facilitating the National Endowment for the Arts and MassHumanities program in Literature and Medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Northampton/Leeds, Massachusetts as part of the nationwide Literature and Medicine Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am also an on-going commissioner with the National Truth Commision on Conscience in War. I continue to collaborate with the Veterans Education Project, the National Veterans Art Museum, the Clemente Courses, the Templeton Foundation, and Beyond Walls. I am currently collaborating with LTC Douglas Pryer, US Army, co-editing A Moral Injury Reader.

Representative Arts and Humanities Experience and Community Involvement
Planning Committee, One Book Holyoke: 2010

Commisioner, National Truth Commision on Conscience in War

Facilitator, NEH/MassHumanities Literature and Medicine Program, Veterans Administration Hospital, Northampton/Leeds, Massachusetts.

Public Humanist, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, 2007–

Director of the Western Massachusetts NOSTOI Project: “Stories of War and Return Project,” Spring 2006, with major funding from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

Director of Seven Against Thebes—A Bengali Dance Drama, Kolkota, India, 2005

Director and Producer of the Iphigenia Project, 1993, Chattanooga, Tennessee, with major funding from the American National Bank, the Lyndhurst Foundation, the Benwood Foundation, and Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga

Guest director of Euripides’ Bakkhai, at the Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, December, 1989 for the MFA Program in the Department of Theatre, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Guest director, Samuel Beckett Centre, Dublin, production of Euripides’ Helen, 1987

National Executive Committee, Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, Dublin, Ireland, 1986–87; Irish co-organizer of International Children’s Day protest, GPO, Dublin, 1987

Author, director and producer ofJumble Sale, at the Iron Horse, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1982

Coordinator of Five-College Euripides Festival, 1980-1981

Director of Euripides’ Hekabe, both the theatrical performance at Hampshire College and the two-hour video aired on Continental Cablevision, 1981

Director and producer of The Real Inspector Hound, by Tom Stoppard, Spring, 1980, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, National University of Ireland

Coordinator of Hampshire College Arts Month, 1979

Co-organizer of the State of Indiana for the Movement for a New Congress, 1970

Consultant to the Danforth Foundation: 1970’s

Core faculty member, Humanities and the Professions Program, Brandeis University, 1970’s