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James J. O'Donnell is Provost of Georgetown University. He is a classical scholar, who has also served as Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania, writing and lecturing about information technology in the modern academic and cultural world. His books include more technical scholarly works on history and philosophy and is an expert on Augustine of Hippo, but he has also two books that are addressed to a general audience. Avatars of the Word (Harvard University Press: 1998) outlines the history of writing and media from ancient Greek times to the present, while Augustine: A New Biography (Harper Collins 2005) was widely reviewed (e.g., New Republic, Economist, New York Times) and was praised by Garry Wills in a publisher's blurb: "This book will be the starting point for an entire rethinking of Augustine’s career and body of writings. What Pierre Courcelle did for Augustinian studies half a century ago, O’Donnell has done for our time." Georgetown University is a private university in the United States, located in Georgetown, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit university in the United States, having been founded on January 23, 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. ...
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn is the moniker used by the university itself [2]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
For the first Archbishop of Canterbury, see Saint Augustine of Canterbury Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430) was one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. ...
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is a celebrated author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. ...
O'Donnell was an early academic adopter of the WWW and his website is famously full of surprises, including the Doughbelly Price home page, about a cowboy turned real estate agent in Taos, NM, fifty years ago, including audio clips of old cowboy songs by Price.
O'Donnell is former President of the American Philological Association and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. He studied at Princeton University (BA 1972) and completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in three years. Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ...
Yale redirects here. ...
External links - [1]: O'Donnell's personal website at Georgetown
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