Jesuit priest, professor and author Lloyd Baugh is the 2015 distinguished visiting professor in the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture. An expert in the interdisciplinary field of theology and film studies, Baugh presented the first of two McDonald Lectures, “The ‘God Question’ in Contemporary Cinema I: A Courageous Break with Tradition,” on September 24, 2015, at Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
A native of Quebec, Canada, Baugh received his master of arts in English and American Literature from Southern Illinois University. He has been a member of the Society of Jesus since 1976, and was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1984. In 1993, he earned a doctorate in fundamental theology and film from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he went on to teach in those areas for more than 20 years.