Anthony Monta, PhD

Novels and poetry in English, religion and literature, non-fiction writing, sacred and secular music, Italian history and art, curricular design

The fiction of Margaret Ogola, the poetry of Franco Arminio, the history of Notre Dame viticulture, the history and philosophy of image and ikon

PhD, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

BA, Allegheny College

As a professor of English, Dr. Anthony Monta specializes in fiction written in English during the long nineteenth century (1798-1914). His dissertation (1999) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison interpreted a range of nineteenth-century novels in the context of debates at that time about the nature and scale of the English administrative state. Monta began his academic career by publishing on the works of the English novelist, editor, and critic Ford Madox Ford, but moved shortly thereafter into higher education administration, where he spent the majority of his career.

Monta first coordinated academic affairs at the Board of Regents for postsecondary education in Louisiana for eight years. He was then hired by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he served as its assistant and associate director for twelve years of growth and creativity. When that institute was absorbed into the Keough School of Global Affairs, Monta returned to the college classroom in 2019 at Holy Cross College, where he has since created and taught a range of courses, served in various administrative roles, including Dean of the College, and helped to develop its College Curriculum, foster music festivals, and lead international trips. He is married with three children and plays music professionally.

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• Co-edited volume, 1968 in Europe and Latin America, University of Notre Dame Press, with A. James McAdams, William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs, University of Notre Dame, 2021.
• “The Tempest in a Year of Rage and Mercy,” Notre Dame Magazine, August 2016; “Chateau Notre-Dame-du-Pape,” Notre Dame Magazine, December 2015; “Zinaida and the Golden Cache,” Notre Dame Magazine, January 2013.
• “Ford Madox Ford’s Fifth Queen and the Modernity of Henry VIII” in Henry VIII and History, ed. Thomas Betteridge and Thomas S. Freeman (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).
• “Ave Maria,” SATB choral motet, performed and directed by Master of Sacred Music candidate at the University of Notre Dame, 2008.
• “Parade’s End in the Context of National Efficiency,” International Ford Madox Ford Studies, Vol. 3, (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004): pp. 41-51.
• Steenbock Dissertation Fellowship, awarded to the top ten dissertations at UW-Madison, 1997, for “Administrative Reform and the English Novel, 1837-1914.”