The MacTaggart Catholic Intellectual Tradition Lecture Series • LuElla D’Amico Ph.D. • February 19, 2026

Catholic Imagination, Children’s Literature and Formation

Featuring — LuElla D’Amico, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of the Incarnate Word

 D’Amico will examine how children’s literature and storytelling serve as sites of theological imagination and moral formation, drawing on her new book Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith through Children’s Literature.

 About the Speaker

LuElla D’Amico, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word. Her scholarly and teaching focus is on early United States literature, children’s literature, Christian women’s writing and girlhood studies. She has three edited collections on girls’ literature. Her new book, Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith through Children’s Literature, looks at classic and popular children’s books via a Catholic lens. She has written for Church Life Journal, America Magazine, Busted Halo and Current, among other venues.

 For more information, please contact Jason King, Ph.D. at jking25@stmarytx.edu.