Michael Lee
Entered Notre Dame: Fall 2001
Interests
American intellectual history.
Dissertation
"American Revelations: Biblical Interpretation and Criticism in Early America"
Abstract: In early America, few people would have dared to dispute openly the authority of the Bible. However, Americans did not agree on its meaning. Biblical interpretation became the battleground on which competing communities utilized the most potent rhetorical weapons they could muster. By examining the development of biblical interpretation in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, one discovers an arena in which the best minds brought forth the most recent intellectual developments of their day and fought with passion and conviction, for they believed the souls of their fellow Americans and of their nation were at stake. My work explains how Americans read, interpreted, discerned, and debated the "authentic" meaning of the Scriptures in an environment when the standards of interpretation were in flux.
Advisor: James Turner
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
- Growth of the American Nation
- Development of Modern America
- The Irish-American Experience
- Lecturer, Concord Academy
- European History: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Nineteenth Century
- African, European, and American History: Contact, Exploration, and Colonization
Contact
Email: Lee.125@nd.edu, mlee5@hotmail.com