Michael R. Steele

Email: steelem@pacificu.edu
Phone: 503-352-2806
Office Location :

Bates House #12

Education:

Ph.D. Michigan State University

B.A. Notre Dame University

The year 2003 was a busy year in books for me.  I completed the manuscript for my second Holocaust book as well as the updated third edition of The Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Encyclopedia. In addition to completing those works, I have proposed a composition textbook to publishing company Prentice Hall.

After completing those projects, I am now wrestling with matters related to my second Holocaust book, Christianity, the Other, and the Holocaust.  Specifically, my current concerns have to do with pedagogy and the creation of "the defiant conscience."

My current reading matter:  Gettysburg -- A Meditation on War and Values, by Kent Gramm; Media and Cultural Studies, by Meenakshi Graham; Lying About Hitler, by Richard J. Evans; and The Dawn of Human Culture, by Richard G. Klein.

Two favorite literary quotations:

"'I rebel, therefore we exist,' said the slave.  Metaphysical rebellion then added, 'We are alone,' by which we still live today."                                                                                                                      -- Albert Camus, The Rebel

" . . . I have realized that we all have the plague . . . one must do what one can to cease being plague-stricken . . . .  I resolved to have no truck with anything . . . which brings death to anyone . . . "              -- Tarrou, in The Plague, by Albert Camus

Notre Dame Football

Holocaust Studies

Other Works