My principal area of research is theology and the arts (with a focus on the Christian poet Dante Alighieri). I also have a developing research area in systematic and historical theology (with a focus on Aquinas and his enduring influence in Catholic, Orthodox and Reformed traditions).

Recent Publications:

Books

• George Corbett, DANTE AND EPICURUS: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment (Oxford: Legenda and MHRA, 2013
• Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy, ed. by George Corbett and Heather Webb, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015)
• Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy, ed. by George Corbett and Heather Webb, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2016)
• Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy, ed. by George Corbett and Heather Webb, vol. 3 (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2017)

Journal Articles

• George Corbett, ‘TheoArtistry, and a Contemporary Perspective on Composing Sacred Choral Music’, Religions 2018, 9 (1), 7 (Special Issue: Music: Its Theologies and Spiritualities – A Global Perspective), doi: 10.3390/rel9010007
• George Corbett, ‘Parallel Exempla: A Theological Reading of the Terrace of Pride (Purgatorio x-xii)’, LE TRE CORONE: Revista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio (2017), 73-96.
• George Corbett, ‘Peraldus and Aquinas: Two Dominican Approaches to the Seven Capital Vices in the Christian Moral Life’, The Thomist 79 (2015), 383-406.
• George Corbett, ‘MacIntyre, Dante and Modernity’, New Blackfriars, 96 (2015), 345-60.
• George Corbett, ‘The Christian Ethics of Dante’s Purgatory’, Medium Ævum, 83:2 (2014), 266-87
• George Corbett and Heather Webb, ‘Three Paths in One Journey: A Vertical Reading of Inf. I, Purg., I, Par. I’, L’Alighieri 41 (2013), 63-81.

Book Chapters

• George Corbett, ‘The Moral Structure of Dante’s Commedia‘, in The Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia, ed. by Zygmunt G. Barański and Simon Gilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• George Corbett, ‘Dante, Epicuro, e Firenze: Una rilettura contestuale del dialogo fra Cavalcante e Dante (Inf. X 52-72)’, in I Libri di Dante, Memoria e Scrittura: Atti del convegno internazione, 15-17 aprile 2015 (Florence: Società Dantesca Italiana, forthcoming)
• George Corbett, ‘Dante’s Other-wordly Surprises and This-worldly Polemic’, in Envisioning the Medieval Afterlife, ed. by R.M. Pollard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• George Corbett, ‘Purgatorio XIX’, in Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana, ed. by Claudia Rossignoli and Robert Wilson (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming)
• George Corbett and Heather Webb, ‘Introduction’, in George Corbett and Heather Webb (eds), Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2016), vol. 2, pp. 1-12.
• George Corbett, ‘Pagan Dawn of a Christian Vision’, in George Corbett and Heather Webb (eds), Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015), vol. 1, pp. 13-23.
• George Corbett and Heather Webb, ‘Introduction’, in George Corbett and Heather Webb (eds), Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015), vol. 1, pp. 1-11.
• George Corbett and Robin Kirkpatrick, ‘ “E lascia pur grattar…”: Language, Narrative and Ethics in the Commedia’, in Dante the Lyrical and Ethical Poet. Dante etico e lirico,ed. by Zygmunt G. Barański and Martin McLaughlin (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 56-69
• George Corbett, ‘Auden’s Imaginary Music’, in New Perspectives in British Cultural History,ed. by Rosalind Crone, David Gange and Katy Jones (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), pp. 232-43