Alex Taylor is a visiting assistant professor of humanities at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia and a visiting research fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, as well as an affiliated scholar with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH. He has taught at Christendom College, where he was an assistant professor of literature, and at the University of Dallas, where he was a Cowan Fellow for Criticism, and where he received his PhD in literature from its multidisciplinary Institute for Philosophic Studies. He has published reviews of fiction, nonfiction, and film, as well as essays and poetry (translations and original lyrics) in various magazines and outlets, including the National Catholic Register, Word on Fire’s Evangelization & Culture Online, Front Porch Republic, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Dappled Things, and others.