Amy Fahey

Biography

Amy Fahey is the Director of the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture, a public outreach of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where she also teaches literature and writing.  She was named a 2025 – 2026 Inklings Project Fellow of the McGrath Institute for Religion and Public Life at Notre Dame University.  Dr. Fahey has served as a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology (Catholic University) and a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Institute. She has taught and lectured on poetry and literature for all ages, from preschool through university, and her research and teaching interests include Angl0-Saxon and Medieval English poetry, the eddas and sagas, Shakespeare and Recusant writers, the short story, and modern fiction writers Willa Cather, Sigrid Undset, and Flannery O’Connor. Her writings have appeared in First Things, The Catholic Thing, Crisis, The Catholic Herald, Columbia Magazine, and other publications.

Dr. Fahey annually organizes the Catholic Literature Conference, which draws over 200 readers from New England and beyond for a day of lectures, conversation, and fellowship. She has been an invited and keynote speaker at the C. S. Lewis Study Center, the Russell Kirk Center, the Chesterton Society, the Prairie Troubadour, the Knights of Columbus Museum, the Rocky Mountain Catholic Homeschooling Conference, the Seton Home Study Conference, the IHE Oxford Graduate Study Program, and the DeNicola Center of Notre Dame University, among others.  Her essay on Sigrid Undset appears in Women of the Catholic Imagination (Word on Fire) and her essay on science and English Romantic poetry appears in The Romantics: Volume II (Ignatius Press). She received her doctorate in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as a four-year Olin Fellow. She also holds an M.Phil. in Mediaeval Literature from the University of St. Andrews, where she was a Weaver Fellow, and a B.A. in English and Christian Studies from Hillsdale College, where she served as a Presidential Scholar. She and her husband William are blessed with five children and three grandchildren.