Monsignor Patrick J Corish Lecture 11 March 2020 Professor David Morgan

The Annual Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture was delivered by Prof. David Morgan (Duke University) on the topic of ‘The Visible Culture of Revelation: Visions and the Imagery that Make them Visible’ on March 11 2020 at 7.30 pm in Renehan Hall, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.
This annual lecture is held in honour of Monsignor Patrick J. Corish, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and later Professor of Modern History, at St Patrick's College Maynooth, County Kildare.
David Morgan is Professor of Religious Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. He chaired the Department of Religious Studies from 2013 to 2019. Morgan received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1990. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of religious visual culture, on art history and critical theory, and on religion and media. Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment, was published in 2018 by Oxford University Press. The Forge of Vision: A Visual History of Modern Christianity, based on the 2012 Cadbury Lectures delivered at the University of Birmingham, UK, appeared in 2015 from the University of California Press. Previous books include The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling (California, 2012), The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America (Routledge, 2007) and two that he edited and contributed to: Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief (Routledge, 2010) and Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture (Routledge, 2008). Earlier works: The Sacred Gaze (California, 2005), Protestants and Pictures (Oxford, 1999), and Visual Piety (University of California Press, 1998). Morgan is co-founder and co-editor of the international scholarly journal, Material Religion, and co-editor of a book series entitled Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion, published by Bloomsbury, London. He is currently at work on a new book under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, entitled The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to Studying the Materiality of Belief.