- James J. O'Donnell
James Joseph O'Donnell is the Provost of
Georgetown University . He is a classical scholar, who has also served as Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at theUniversity 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, with a special interest inAugustine of Hippo , but he has also three 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"). An account of the end of Roman grandeur, "The Ruin of the Roman Empire" (HarperCollins: 2008), has now appeared.O'Donnell was an early academic adopter of the WWW. Unusual sections of his website include the Doughbelly Price home page, about a cowboy turned real estate agent in Taos, NM, fifty years ago, featuring 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. atYale University in three years.External links
*http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod - personal website
* [http://philosophytalk.org/pastShows/StAugustine.html "St. Augustine"] Radio interview onPhilosophy Talk
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