Academic biography

Dr Peter Admirand's most recently published book is: Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love:  Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga. It was published in 2023 by Routledge in their book series, Routledge Advances in Comics Studies. He is also the editor of The Last of Us: Violence, Ethics, Redemption?, to be published in June 2024. In 2021, Seeking Common Ground: A Theist/Atheist Dialogue, co-written with philosopher Andrew Fiala, was published by Cascade Books. Humbling Faith: Brokenness, Doubt, Dialogue—What Unites Atheists, Theists, and Nontheists, published in 2019, is also available as an audiobook. Amidst Mass Atrocity and the Rubble of  Theology (2012) is his book on theodicy and witness testimony. He is also the editor of Loss  and Hope: Global, Interreligious, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2014; paperback 2015). 

Dr Admirand is Deputy Head of School in the School of Theology, Philosophy and Music, Associate Professor of Theology, and the Director of the  Centre  for Interreligious Dialogue. He also serves as the Christian Co-Chair of the  Irish Council of Christians and Jews. 

He has a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin; a M.A.  in Theology (Ethics) from Boston College; a M.A. in British and  American  Literature from Georgetown University; and a B.A. in English from The  Catholic  University of America. Previously  he served as an Interim Programme Coordinator for the M.Phil in  Ecumenics Programme at the Irish School of  Ecumenics and lectured in peace studies, ethics, and interfaith dialogue. He also was an adjunct lecturer in English  Departments at Pratt Institute, Queen’s College (CUNY), York College (CUNY), St  John’s University, and Lasell College. He was in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in  California in 1998-1999. 

His publications and research interests are in  the areas of interreligious dialogue (especially Jewish-Christian dialogue and atheist-theist dialogue); post-Shoah Christianity;  religion and literature (including comics studies, pop culture, and science f