Fr. James Miracky

Fr. James J. Miracky, S.J., Ph.D.

Vice President for Mission Integration & Ministry
jmiracky@saintpeters.edu
(201) 761-6018

Fr. Miracky was born in Milwaukee, WI, and entered the Society of Jesus from Canisius High School in Buffalo, NY. His academic training includes a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, an M.Div. and S.T.M. from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English (in 20th Century British Fiction and Gender Studies) from Rutgers University.

Most of his priestly ministry has been in Jesuit higher education, first as an English Professor (primarily teaching courses in fiction and drama), and eventually as English Department Chair and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. During that time, he published articles on modern and postmodern British fiction, as well as the book, Regenerating the Novel: Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence (Routledge, 2003).

Fr. Miracky also served as Dean of Loyola College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Maryland, and he was the Provincial Assistant for Higher Education in the USA East Province of the Society, serving as liaison between the Jesuits and the eleven Jesuit colleges and universities on the East Coast, particularly attending to issues of Jesuit mission and identity. Most recently he was Associate Pastor at St. Francis Xavier Parish in New York.