Dominic Green will arrive on campus next week as the next Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism.
“Green is an outstanding writer, critic, and historian,” said John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program. “I’ve read his work with admiration for years, and it will be great to have him here on campus, meeting our students and teaching a course on journalism.”
Green is the former editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of The Spectator, a British magazine, as well as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and a weekly columnist and essayist for the Washington Examiner and the Jewish Chronicle.
Green will give a public talk on “The Birth of Modern Spirituality,” which is also the subtitle of his latest book, “The Religious Revolution,” on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. in Plaster Auditorium.
“We talk about the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution as transformative in making modern Western society,” Green said. “This book is an attempt to do the same for the inner life, which has also been transformed in drastic ways.”
He holds master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and Harvard University, and a Ph. D. from Brandeis University. Throughout his career, Green has taught writing and history and also has expertise in politics, foreign policy, and journalism.
During his time on campus, Green will also teach a two-week long seminar class titled “What Journalism Is.”
“I regularly meet Hillsdale graduates through my work in journalism and am always impressed,” Green said. “I’m looking forward to working with hard-working and committed students, and meeting faculty members that I’ve previously only been able to correspond with long-distance, by email.”
Junior Olivia Hajicek has taken several Pulliam seminars.
“You can learn so much from a person that you just can’t learn from a textbook. I’m super excited for Dominic Green’s seminar,” Hajicek said. “Every one is different, and I never really know going in what I’m going to learn, but I’ve a feeling this one’s going to be really fun.”