Joan D. Lynch

Joan Driscoll Lynch is a Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Communication Department at Villanova University where she taught Film Studies and Theatre for thirty years. She is the author of Film Education in Secondary Schools and has published articles in the Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Film and Video, Literature/Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, The Drama Review and many other journals and magazines. Since 1989 her writings have focused on women's issues. Four of her articles have been reprinted in anthologies, one of them twice. Two of her articles have been republished in China. Recently, she has written a screen play and a novel entitled Women of the Passion. The novel was a 2011 finalist in the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award for Religious Fiction. The novel also won recognition for Spirituality by the New England Book Festival. Joan studied Theology and Philosophy in her undergraduate years and won the Philosophy Medal from Boston College the year she graduated. The inspiration for the novel came from an elderly cleric who asked Joan to write about the Christian experience in the First Century.