Michael
Roeschlein entered the field of Jesuit education as a high
school student at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago.
He graduated with University Honors from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign before attending conservatory in New York
city to train as a Shakespearan actor. When he enrolled
as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin--Madison
as a graduate student, however, his focus had shifted to twentieth-century
literature. His dissertation is entitled Tarrying with
the Transcendent: Forms of Religious Experience in Twentieth-Century
Literature, and treats work by E. M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, James
Joyce, and J. M. Coetzee. His job as a Visiting Assistant
Professor here at Marquette is his first out of graduate school,
and he is delighted with it as it connects so well with his
personal sense of Jesuit mission.
