Prof George Corbett

Prof George Corbett

Director of Research

Professor of Theology

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2830
Email
george.corbett@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

George Corbett is Professor of Theology, School of Divinity, University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. 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  (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology),  (a project linking up theologians and artists), and co-directs the collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music. 

Teaching

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

Research areas

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).

PhD supervision

  • Victoria Costa
  • Cameron Shippee
  • Jonathan Wright

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Corbett, G., Mar 2020, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 233 p. (Cambridge studies in medieval literature; vol. 110)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Corbett, G., 2013, Oxford: Legenda. 202 p. (Italian Perspectives; vol. 25)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Corbett, G. (Editor), 1 May 2019, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 392 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Corbett, G. (Editor) & Webb, H. (Editor), Sept 2015, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 275 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Corbett, G. (Editor) & Webb, H. (Editor), Dec 2016, 1 ed. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 288 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Corbett, G. (Editor) & Webb, H. (Editor), Dec 2017, 1st ed. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 264 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Corbett, G., 1 Jul 2015, In: The Thomist. 79, 3, p. 383-406

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Corbett, G., May 2015, In: New Blackfriars. 96, 1063, p. 345-360 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Corbett, G., 12 Dec 2021, In: Bibliotheca Dantesca. 4, 32 p., 1.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Corbett, G., Dec 2018, The Cambridge Companion to Dante's Commedia. Barański, Z. & Gilson, S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 61-78 18 p. ( Cambridge Companions to Literature).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter