Chris Maunder
Professor
Humanities, Religion & Philosophy
York St John University
United Kingdom
Biography
He have worked at York St John University part-time (1988-1994 and 2013 onwards) and full-time (1994-2013). He have at various times been Head of Programme for the MA and also for the BA. Now he work only half time but still really enjoy teaching and supporting students in their learning!
Research Interest
His main research area over the last few years - starting with a PhD at the University of Leeds in 1991 - has been popular Catholicism, in particular the apparitions and shrines of Mary; and He have published articles in this area and on Mary in the New Testament. In 2016, I published Our Lady of the Nations: Apparitions of Mary in Twentieth Century Catholic Europe with Oxford University Press. He is currently preparing and editing a new Oxford Handbook of Mary, to be published in 2019 by Oxford University Press.