Alex Taylor is the Cowan Fellow for Criticism at the University of Dallas in Irving, TX, where he is currently finishing a dissertation which unearths the shared political vision of two 20th century Catholic novelists, Flannery O’Connor and Evelyn Waugh. He has published reviews of fiction, nonfiction, and film as well as essays and poetry (translations and original lyrics) in various magazines, including Front Porch Republic, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Dappled Things, Law & Liberty, The European Conservative and The American Conservative.