ublished by Pantagruel Press from 2004-2006, The New Pantagruel was an electronic journal run by a cadre of intemperate but friendly Catholics and Protestants who saw other electronic journals run by Christians, and thought that while they might not be able to do better, they could certainly do no worse. The New Pantagruel did not have a doctrinal statement such as is typical for publications of this sort because its creators didn't even bother trying to agree on one. They did have an idea of what they were about though, and if interested, you can read about it in the introduction to The New Pantagruel. Other informative novelties include a collection of classic statements on "Pantagruelism," TNP's July 2004 press release and a Pantagruelist poster announcing the first issue in January 2004.
To learn about The New Pantagruel's typographic design elements, see the Colophon.
Editorial Board
Caleb Stegall, Editor
Caleb Stegall is a private attorney and legal counselor heading The Stegall Law Firm. He is on the board of trustees for the Kansas Audubon Society and the board of directors for Kansas Legislative Education and Research, previously known as the Kansas Conservative Caucus. Formerly of Foulston-Siefkin and former law clerk to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Stegall graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Kansas School of Law where he served as a member of the editorial staff of the Kansas Law Review. Stegall has previously published commentary in Touchstone, Books & Culture Online, Comment, Re:generation Quarterly, and Reformed Presbyterian Witness. He is working on a book, Kansas First! and lives with his wife, Ann, and their four sons in rural Kansas.
Dan Knauss, Associate & Design Editor
Dan Knauss was a member of the Partnership Of English Majors long enough to acquire the coveted ABD after long study of fine things like sixteenth-century typography, apocalypse, and polemic. Currently a civic humanist, amateur brewer, gardener, building restorationist, website designer, and agitator for order and growth in a transitional urban neighborhood, he has been or is presently involved in several community enterprises, including the Riverwest Currents, the Riverwest Neighborhood Association, the Riverwest Workers' Grocery Co-op and Café, and the Riverwest Investment Cooperative on whose board he serves as secretary. Dan has contributed writing to Comment (the journal of the Work Research Foundation), The Matthew’s House Project, The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, the Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry, and Wikipedia. Dan and his wife, Sonya, live in Milwaukee with their four children.
J. Clayton Johnson, Associate Editor
Clay Johnson is a practicing attorney and M.Div. candidate at Covenant Theological Seminary. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Syracuse Law Review and a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He and his wife, Renae, live in St. Louis with their four young children.
Annie Young Frisbie, Managing Editor
Annie Young Frisbie is Senior Editor of Zoom In Online and heads the intercessory prayer ministry at the Village Church in New York City. She is the writer and co-producer of Speak, a feature film which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and which will air on Showtime in October 2005. She recently served as a researcher for Every Word Is True, a feature film by Doug McGrath on Truman Capote and the writing of In Cold Blood, and is the photo editor for The Art of the Documentary, being published by Peachpit Press, a division of Pearson Education, in the summer of 2005. She teaches screenwriting at Messiah College, has an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University, and wrote about Donnie Darko for Metaphilm. She and her husband John live and make films in Sunnyside, Queens where she is also at work on her first novel. She hopes to have news that will make her mother very happy in the near future.
James Rovira, Managing Editor
James Rovira is Lecturer in English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and a Ph.D. candidate in English at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, currently working on his dissertation on Kierkegaard and English Romanticism. He lives in the Greater Orlando area with his wife and children and has published short stories, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, academic non-fiction, and educational curricula in several print and online venues, including Fiera Lingue, The Tower of Babel, the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Metaphilm, Renascence, and others.
Michael Brendan Dougherty, Books Editor
Michael Brendan Dougherty has an uninteresting biography. Raised in the ever-less-bucolic Brewster, New York, he remains one ever-more-expensive train ride away from the land of Louis Vuitton bags, Burberry scarves, and overused Ipods. At Bard College he studied theology with a Jesus Seminar fellow and poetry with Robert Kelly before taking up pipe-smoking and Medieval History at Fordham University. He was Executive Editor of the short lived and long forgotten webzine, The New Fugitive. He has contributed to Brainwash and maintains a blog called "Surfeited with Dainties."
Ryan McDermott, Arts Editor
Ryan McDermott received a BA in English from Westmont College, an MA in Theological Studies at Duke Divinity School and is presently engaged in doctoral studies in English at the University of Virginia. He has edited a college arts journal, a local 'zine and a weekly newspaper. He has published fiction and articles in The Christian Century and Touchstone.
Mark Filiatreau, Arts Editor
Mark Filiatreau earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University and has published in IMAGE, Breakpoint.com, BC Christian News, the National Catholic Register, and elsewhere. To feed his family foursome (including 1 teen, 1 baby) he is currently a Technical Writer in northern Virginia, helping protect the USA from terrorist attack. Meanwhile he is also attempting to complete from a distance the last 12 credits of his Master of Christian Studies degree at Regent College in Vancouver. His studies focus on the theology of art and the interdisciplinary exploration of Christian imagination. He has Richard Wilbur's autograph.
Brian Janaszek, Web Lackey
Brian Janaszek lives with his wife Jenifer and their two sons in Morningside, Pittsburgh, PA. He holds B.A.s in writing and philosophy from Geneva College. After receiving his degrees, however, he chose to become a self-taught, jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, computer programmer. He currently works for a small software company in Pittsburgh, and is an active contributor to the open source software community. He maintains a personal blog, Boy on a Bike, and the group blog Dialogical Coffee House.
Gassalasca Jape, S.J., Inquisitor et Magister Implicatus
Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S.J. was raised by Ukrainian peasants who sent him to be educated at the Jesuit mission in Crim Tartary where he studied bistromathics and metalogical pessimistics. He sends us his ingenious missives by carrier pigeon from the Cathedral of the Day Before Tommorrow. As far as he knows, Fr. Jape has only spiritual children. He is an avid reader of What Crisis?, Commonwhelp, Christians Born Yesterday, InterVarsity Press Books & Haute Couture, Philosophers Stoned: A Journal of Marijuana Alchemy, and Last Rites: the Journal of Sententious Prose and Mental Repose.
Jeremy Beer, Contributing Editor
Jeremy Beer is Editor-in-Chief at ISI Books. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. His articles and reviews have appeared in many publications including First Things, Crisis, Re:generation Quarterly, and Modern Age.
Patton Dodd, Contributing Editor
Patton Dodd is a Ph.D. candidate in Religion and Literature at Boston University. He is a contributing editor for Killing the Buddha, the Submission Director of the Independent Film Festival of Boston, and the author of My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion.
Bruce Frohnen, Contributing Editor
Bruce P. Frohnen is Associate Professor at the Ave Maria School of Law. He has written on constitutional interpretation and human rights for a number of journals, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Catholic University Law Review, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He also has written for National Review, the Washington Times, and the Intercollegiate Review. He is the author of Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville
Thomas Heilke, Contributing Editor
Thomas Heilke is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where he, his wife, and their two children make their home. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on various topics in political philosophy, the history of political thought, and political theology, including Eric Voegelin: in Quest of Reality and Nietzsche’s Tragic Regime: Culture, Aesthetics and Political Education.
Jack Heller, Contributing Editor
Jack Heller is Assistant Professor of English at Huntington College. In addition to numerous review articles, he is the author of Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton’s City Comedies.
Joshua P. Hochschild, Contributing Editor
Joshua Hochschild is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He taught formerly at Wheaton College (Illinois), and received his Ph.D. for work in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has published on medieval philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy, in academic and non-academic journals. He lives with his wife and three children in Fairfield, Pennsylvania.
Zachry O. Kincaid, Contributing Editor
Zachry O. Kincaid is the director of The Matthew’s House Project. Its purpose is to explore and illuminate the role of Christian faith in culture and in so doing to educate a popular audience and contribute to academic discussion.
Eugene McCarraher, Contributing Editor
Eugene McCarraher is Assistant Professor of Humanities and History at Villanova University and a 2006 fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He received his Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University, where he studied with Jackson Lears. He is the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. He has taught at Rutgers, the University of Delaware, and Princeton. In addition to articles for scholarly journals, he writes essays and reviews for Commonweal, Books and Culture, and In These Times. His current project is a cultural history of corporate business entitled The Enchantments of Mammon: Corporate Capitalism and the American Moral Imagination, which will be published in 2006.
Eric Miller, Contributing Editor
Eric Miller directs the Humanities program at Geneva College. His Ph.D. is in American history. He is currently at work on a biography of the American social critic and historian Christopher Lasch. His essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals and magazines, including The Cresset, Mars Hill Review, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, First Things, and Re:generation Quarterly. He, his wife Denise, and their three sons live in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
Scott H. Moore, Contributing Editor
Scott H. Moore is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department. He directs the Great Texts Program at Baylor University and teaches in the Academy for Leader Development & Civic Engagement. He writes about religion and politics, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of religion. His book, The End of Convenient Stereotypes: Extraordinary Politics at the End of Modernity is forthcoming from InterVarsity Press. He is currently working on a study of hospitality as a defining Christian political practice. He and his wife, Andrea, have five children and live in Waco, Texas.
Read Mercer Schuchardt, Contributing Editor
Read Mercer Schuchardt is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. He is the co-founder of Cleave: The Counter Agency as well as co-founder and publisher of Metaphilm. A Ph.D. student of the late Neil Postman at New York University’s Media Ecology program, his writing has been published in Utne Reader, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, and Re:generation Quarterly, where he was the Contributing Editor on Media and Culture. His two books, Metaphilm: Seers of the Silver Screen, and The Disappearance of Women: Technology, Pornography, and the Obsolescence of Gender are forthcoming from Spence Publishing in 2004 and 2005. He and his wife, Rachel, live with their five children in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Christopher Shannon, Contributing Editor
Christopher Shannon is a Research Associate at the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. He has previously taught at the University of Iowa and Yale University, and served for three years as the Associate Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. In addition to regular commentary in First Things, Re:generation Quarterly, Commonweal, and Books & Culture, he is the author of two books, Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in American Social Thought, from Veblen to Mills and A World Made Safe for Differences: Cold-War Intellectuals and the Politics of Identity.
Gideon Strauss, Contributing Editor
Gideon Strauss is the Research and Education Director of the Christian Labour Association of Canada and editor of Comment, the journal of the Work Research Foundation. He is a native of South Africa, where he received his Ph.D. in the ethics of public policy in 1995. He was an interpreter for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission under Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, and during the 1980s, he served just more than 3 years of a 6-year community service assignment as a conscientious objector against serving in the South African army under apartheid. He is a regular contributor to the Canadian newspaper ChristianWeek and he lives in Toronto with his wife, Angela, and their two daughters.
David Wright, Contributing Editor
David Wright's most recent book is A Liturgy for Stones (Cascadia, 2003). His poems, reviews and essays have appeared in The Christian Century, The Nimble Spirit Review, and Books & Culture. He maintains a web site at dwpoet.com.
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