Robert E. Meagher

ROBERT EMMET MEAGHER is Emeritus Professor of Humanities, Hampshire College, Amherst. He also served on the faculties of Indiana University and Notre Dame. Across 52 years of teaching he held numerous visiting chairs and professorships in the U.S. and abroad, including at Trinity College Dublin and Yale. His publishing career includes over 20 books, translations, and original plays, most recently Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War; Killing from the Inside Out; War and Moral Injury; Albert Camus and the Human Crisis; and The Battle and the Butterfly. He has offered workshops on the translation and production of ancient drama at universities here and abroad, and has directed productions at such venues as the Samuel Beckett Centre, Dublin and the Nandan Centre for the Performing Arts in Kolkota. In recent years he has directed and participated in a range of programs concerned with healing the spiritual wounds of war in combat veterans, their families, and their communities