🧑‍🏫 Faculty Directory

St. Leo the Great University
“Servire Veritati et Caritati”

🪶 Department of Philosophy

Dr. Basil Gregory Castalian, Ph.D.
Chair of Philosophy and Dean of Faculty

  • B.A., Great Books, St. John’s College
  • Ph.D., Thomistic Metaphysics, University of Salamanca
  • Former Visiting Fellow at the Royal Academy of Eyehasseen
  • Specializes in Aquinas, classical realism, and metaphysics of participation
  • Known for holding tutorials beneath the Linden Tree in the Forum Courtyard

Dr. Eulalia Veritatis, Ph.D.
Professor of Ancient Philosophy

  • B.A., University of the Aegean
  • Ph.D., Platonic Studies, Angelicum (Rome)
  • Speaks fluent Attic Greek; lectures often delivered in translation-free format
  • Research: “Eros and Epistemology in the Symposium”

Fr. Theophanes Aquilinus, O.P., S.T.D.
Professor of Thomistic Thought and Sacra Doctrina

  • S.T.B., Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • S.T.L./S.T.D., Lateran University
  • Teaches all courses in traditional Dominican habit
  • Wrote Summa contra Nihilism, required in upper-level courses

Dr. Maximus Laurentius, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Catholic Social Thought

  • B.A., Political Theory, Hillsdale College
  • M.A., Eyehasseen Institute of Civic Order
  • Ph.D., Political Philosophy, Universitas Regni Unitatis
  • Advocates restoration of virtue ethics in public discourse

📖 Department of Theology

Sr. Anna Clara, O.S.B., Ph.D.
Chair of Theology and Director of Liturgical Life

  • M.A., Sacred Liturgy, St. Meinrad
  • Ph.D., Patristics and Monastic Theology, Institutum Patrum (France)
  • Specializes in Benedictine spirituality and early Church mystagogy
  • Coordinates Lectio Divina Chapel Series and Candlelight Vespers

Dr. Aurelius M. Severinus, S.T.D.
Professor of Dogmatic Theology

  • S.T.D., Gregorian University
  • Former Theological Advisor to the Eyehasseen Synod on Apostolic Beauty
  • Teaches “The Trinity and the Problem of Analogy”
  • Writes under pseudonym Speculum Ecclesiae

Fr. Marcus Leo, Ph.D.
Professor of Sacred Scripture and Royal Chaplain

  • B.A., Biblical Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Ph.D., Biblical Theology, École Biblique de Jérusalem
  • Often preaches barefoot during Matins
  • Research: Typology, Temple Theology, and Pauline Christology

Dr. Hildegard Castitas, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Moral Theology and Philosophical Ethics

  • B.A., Ethics & Culture, University of Notre Dame
  • Ph.D., Christian Ethics, Eyehasseen Theological Seminary
  • Leads annual Colloquium on Conscience and Kingship
  • Developed Eyehasseen’s “Rule of Moral Discernment” core curriculum

📚 Visiting & Honorary Fellows

Baron Johannes von Benedikt, Scholar-in-Residence

  • Renowned orator and lay apologist
  • Teaches short intensive modules on rhetoric and persuasion
  • Author of Logos and the Scepter: On Speech and Sovereignty

Lady Seraphina of the Lantern Keep, Honorary Fellow in Aesthetics

  • Specialist in sacred architecture and liturgical vesture
  • Curator of the University’s Reliquary of Imagined Saints
  • Offers guest lectures in the Oratory on “The Theology of Beauty”