Kelly Anderson, Ph.D.
Dr. Anderson is chair of the Department of Sacred Scripture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where she joined the faculty in 2006. Her degrees in Sacred Scripture include a doctorate from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and a licentiate from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. She teaches courses in both the Old and New Testament, as well as in systematic theology for both the seminary’s Theologate and its School of Theological Studies. Dr. Anderson’s academic interests include the fundamental connection of the Sacred Scriptures to theology and liturgy.
Luca D’Anselmi, Ph.D.
Dr. Luca D’Anselmi has been a member of the faculty at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary since 2016. His academic interests include Latin poetry, classical reception, and the history of liberal education. He regularly teaches Latin, Greek, and the Humanities in the college seminary and in the seminary’s MAPS program. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Latin from Hillsdale College (2012), a Master of Arts from Bryn Mawr College (2014), and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College (2021), where he wrote a dissertation entitled “Inimitabilem Maronis maiestatem assequi: The Neo-Latin Supplements to Vergil’s Aeneid, 1400-1700. He is one of the co-founders of the Philadelphia Catholic Scholars Program.
James Despres, Ph.D.
Dr. Despres joined the faculty of St. Charles Borromeo in 2009, with interests in modern and contemporary philosophy, particularly phenomenology. He also has a deep philosophical interest in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and the teleological conception of nature and the human person. He is the Director of the MAPS Program and the Acting Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He lives with his beautiful wife and three lovely children in an idyllic Philadelphia suburb.
Kevin L. Hughes, Ph.D.
Dr. Hughes is a Professor of Historical Theology at Villanova University, appointed in both the Humanities and Theology departments. Having taught at Villanova since 1997, he was a founding member of the Humanities department, and he regularly teaches in both Humanities and Theology at the undergraduate and graduate level. He received his Ph.D. from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on history, theology, and culture from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the early modern period, and he is a frequent commentator on Catholicism and contemporary culture.