Berkley Center

Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., is vice president for mission and ministry and a professorial lecturer in the Department of English at Georgetown University. Bosco previously taught in the theology and English departments at Loyola University Chicago and served as director of the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. His scholarly work focuses on the intersection of theology and art.

Elizabeth Coffman is a documentary filmmaker and writer, and department chair for the School of Communication and director of the Film and Digital Media Program at Loyola University Chicago. She has co-produced numerous film and installation projects with Ted Hardin and their company Long Distance Productions. She wrote, directed and produced a National Endowment for the Humanities-supported documentary, Flannery (2019) with co-director/writer Mark Bosco, about acclaimed Georgia writer, Flannery O'Connor.

Paul Elie is a senior fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the director of the American Pilgrimage Project, a university partnership with StoryCorps based in the Berkley Center. His work deals primarily with the ways religious ideas are given expression in literature, the arts, music, and culture in the broadest sense. In the American Pilgrimage Project he examines the ways religious beliefs inform the experiences of the American people at crucial moments in their lives. Elie is also the moderator of Georgetown's Faith and Culture Series, a series of public conversations about the interaction of religion, art, literature, and society. He is the author of two books. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) is a group portrait of four twentieth-century Catholic writers (Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day). Reinventing Bach (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) chronicles the transformation of Bach's music through recording technology in the hands of great musicians (Albert Schweitzer, Pablo Casals, Glenn Gould, Yo-Yo Ma, et al.). Both books were National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, and The Life You Save May Be Your Own received the PEN / Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, a Christopher Award, and two Modern Language Association book prizes.

Ted Hardin is a documentary cinematographer and producer, and associate professor at Columbia College Chicago. He has co-produced numerous film and installation projects with Elizabeth Coffman and their company Long Distance Productions. They produced a National Endowment for the Humanities-supported documentary, Flannery (2019) about acclaimed Georgia writer, Flannery O'Connor.