About Joseph Pearce

A native of England, Joseph Pearce is the internationally acclaimed author of many books, which include bestsellers such as The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc.

His books have been published and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Croatian and Polish. He has hosted two 13-part television series about Shakespeare on EWTN, and has also written and presented documentaries on EWTN on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. His verse drama, Death Comes for the War Poets, was performed off-Broadway to critical acclaim. He has participated and lectured at a wide variety of international and literary events at major colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Europe, Africa and South America.

He is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). He is editor of the St. Austin Review (https://staustinreview.org/), series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions (www.ignatiuscriticaleditions.com), senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine.

His personal website is http://www.jpearce.co.  

Testimonies from students:

“I appreciated and enjoyed the class, I understood the teacher even with his accent.”

“I LOVE Mr. Pearce's British accent! I also greatly appreciated the email response that was given when I asked a question.”

See Courses & Videos

• How to Read Great Literature

• Narnia for Young Adults: The Theology of the Chronicles of Narnia

• Tolkien for Young Adults: The Theology of Middle Earth

• The Hobbit

• The Lord of the Rings

• The Merchant of Venice

• Romeo and Juliet

• Hamlet

• King Lear

• The Iliad

• The Odyssey

• Everlasting Man

• Frankenstein: Misunderstood Monster

• Picture of Dorian Gray

• Bede and Beowulf

• Books

  • Poems Every Catholic Should Know

  • Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love
    

  • Monaghan: A Life
    

  • Frodo’s Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings
    

  • The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome
    

  • C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
    

  • Tolkien: Man and Myth, a Literary Life
    

  • Literary Giants, Literary Catholics
    

  • Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
    

  • Unafraid of Virginia Woolf: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell
    

  • Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief 
    

  • The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
    

  • Shakespeare on Love: Seeing the Catholic Presence in Romeo and Juliet 
    

  • Beauteous Truth: Faith, Reason, Literature & Culture
    

  • Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
    

  • Through Shakespeare’s Eyes
    

  • Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc
    

  • Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered 
    

  • Candles in the Dark: The Fr. Ho Lung Biography
    

  • Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell
    

  • Why Should I Learn This (contributing author)

  Professor Pearce is also an editor for the Ignatius Critical Editions.

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