• KY16 9JU

    United Kingdom

Accepting Postgraduate Research Students

PhD projects

Aquinas's theology and its influence; Dante Studies (particularly Dante's theology); Medieval theology; 19th-21st century Catholic theology (particularly the Leonine renaissance in Thomistic Studies, and the history of Catholic theology up to and including Vatican II and its reception); theology of music and sacred music; theological aesthetics, and theology and the arts across all periods.

Personal profile

Research overview

Prof. Corbett has two principal areas of research: theology and the arts (with a focus on the theologian-poet Dante Alighieri) and historical and systematic theology (with a focus on Aquinas’ theology and its influence, and on Catholic theology).

Biography

George Corbett is Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. Prior to joining the School of Divinity in 2015, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, where he taught English literature, Italian literature, and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum). 

Prof. Corbett directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology), TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and co-directs the collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music

 

Teaching activity

DI4511 Aquinas’ Theology

DI4829 The Religious World of Dante

DI5442 Religious Experience and Aesthetic Theory

DI5526 Selected Medieval Theologian

DI5601: Music and the Sacred in Theory and Practice

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

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  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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