Great Books - Program Director

Dr. Edward Mulholland is the director of Great Books at Benedictine College. Beyond teaching in the “Man and the World” Great Books sequence and in World and Classical Languages and Cultures, the director’s task is to mentor Great Books students and to tailor programs of study that satisfy both the students’ desired major and their interest in Great Books.

Dr. Edward Mulholland

Edward Mulholland, Ph.D. is the Sheridan Chair of Classics at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, and a Master’s degree in classics from the University of London. He has been involved in Catholic education via seminary, college and high school teaching for 35 years. He has taught in Italy, Spain, Mexico and the United States. He is currently preparing for publication the first ever English translation of Renaissance humanist Marko Marulić’s lost and re-found epic, the Davidiad. He and his wife, Valerie, have six children and two grandchildren. Contact Dr. Mulholland